NOOSA PLAN 2020 PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 2 - POST PUBLIC NOTIFICATION FOR FINAL STATE GOVERNMENT MINISTERIAL APPROVAL · Attachment 1 Table of submissions

 Your Say    ECM         Submitter comments                                                                                              Response                                                                                                         Recommendation
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                         • Align with the historical use and zoning of Noosa Junction as a business centre, consistent with the                                                                                                                            immediately adjoining   the
                         area's long-standing character and planned development.                                                                                                                                                                           Major Centre Zone.
                         We also appreciate the council's efforts to mitigate potential impacts through the Entertainment Activities
                         Code, which ensures that entertainment activities are developed responsibly, balancing business needs
                         with residential amenity.
                         We urge the Noosa Council to approve these amendments and continue to support the growth and
                         development of Noosa Junction as a thriving hub for business and entertainment.
                         We commend the council for their proactive approach in fostering a vibrant, economically robust, and
                         inclusive community.
                         We look forward to ongoing collaboration with the Noosa Council and other stakeholders to ensure that
                         Noosa Junction remains a premier destination for business, entertainment, and community activities,
                         benefiting all residents and visitors of the Noosa Shire.
 5796323     23094947    In the 2020 Noosa plan, with apparent minimal consideration for local residents, emphasis was placed on         Noosa Junction has been designated a key business centre for Noosa Shire and has been recognised as
             and         developing The Junction into a “hospitality precinct for dining, late night activity and music” As a            such since the Noosa Shire Strategic Plan in 1997, then again in the Noosa Plan 2006 and in the more
             23108773    consequence, and due to total lack of effective policing, over the past 4 years, the quality of life for        recent Noosa Plan 2020.
                         hundreds of long established local residents, particularly those living on Noosa Hill, has been significantly   The Hospitality precinct was introduced in the Noosa Plan 2020 to cluster similar entertainment activities
                         eroded by repeated loud bassy “doof doof” music being played late into the night and emanating from a           in a core area more central to the centre and away from surrounding residential development. It also
                         handful of establishments, the owners of which have little regard for anyone other than themselves. In          introduced new requirements for hours of operation for uses as well as hours for acoustic and amplified
                         addition, disturbance from shouting and singing revellers, particularly at turn out time have significantly     live music which were not included in previous planning schemes.
                         increased over the same time frame, further disturbing local sleeping families. Residents are being
                         disturbed on a weekly basis, children are being kept awake on school nights and families are resorting to       The Noosa Plan Amendments propose to extend the hours of operation for any Food and drink outlets
                         earplugs in an attempt to sleep. Despite multiple complaints by countless residents, numerous bars and          from 10pm Sunday to Thursday to 12 midnight, seven days per week. This was to provide for any new
                         restaurants are wilfully and repeatedly pushing the boundaries with regard loud, heavy bass music, in the       food and drink outlets to have a later sitting ( ie 8:30pm). The current hours of 10pm don’t allow this. In
                         knowledge that they are immune from immediate intervention from the police or council as they are               addition, there are a number of restaurants that currently operate under existing use rights which have
                         regulated only by the Office of Liquor and Gaming which is unavailable when most needed, during                 later operation hours, so it was to provide some consistency throughout the precinct.
                         weekday nights and over the weekends.                                                                           The Amendments also introduce a new definition of Amplified music which is currently not captured in
                         The Noosa Junction Hospitality Precinct is surrounded by hundreds of residents living in high density           Noosa Plan 2020. Noosa plan 2020 has provision for live amplified music but not prerecorded. The new
                         residential zones that are in very close proximity to the precinct bars and restaurants. Increasing numbers     definition will capture any amplified music whether live or prerecorded to ensure that future amenity is
                         of these residents feel extremely let down by council and other authorities for repeatedly failing to           protected under the permissible hours for music in the centre. The amendments do not change the
                         adequately address the fore mentioned issues. They hold Noosa Council directly responsible for taking           operation hours for amplified music
                         away their basic right to enjoy peace and quiet during the hours of darkness.
                         With the above in mind, to learn that Council is now proposing, in Amendment No.2 to the 2020 Noosa             Issues pertaining to noise where a premises has a liquor license are managed under the auspices of
                         Plan, to further extend Noosa Junction food and drink licences from 10pm to midnight during the week is         Queensland Office Liquor Gaming and Racing. Council has no control or power to enforce noise from
                         simply inconceivable. Not only will our children soon be woken up by revellers at midnight rather than          licensed premises.
                         10pm during the week, but with 2 extra hours of alcohol consumption, the revellers are likely to be both        In addition, Council cannot enforce the current provision of the Noosa Plan 2020 on premises that have
                         more numerous and vocal. If this wasn’t bad enough, the suggestion that council is also going to approve        existing use rights. The Noosa Plan 2020 can only be applied to new development where a material
                         the proposal for external amplified recorded music, to be played throughout the Junction, is indicative of      change of use application is required so can’t be retrospectively applied to existing developments.
                         just how little regard they have for local residents. The vast majority of historic noise complaints directed
                                                                                                                                         In order to provide a balanced outcome for the businesses in the centre and the surrounding amenity of
                         towards Noosa Junction bar and restaurants are as a result of amplified recorded music being played
                                                                                                                                         the locality it is proposed to allow the extension in time, however there is to be no amplified music internal
                         through powerful speakers and having a distinctive loud and repetitive bass beat which carries for many
                                                                                                                                         and external of the premises permitted past 10pm Sunday through to Thursday.
                         hundreds of metres and cannot be blanked out by closed doors or windows.
                                                                                                                                         To compliment this the provision for music will also be amended to apply to include internal in addition to
                         I strongly request that all open air amplified recorded music be banned at all establishments in the
                                                                                                                                         external of the premises unless the building has been acoustically treated to comply with licencing
                         Junction, during the hours of darkness, until such time as council, and other authorities, demonstrate their
                                                                                                                                         requirements from Office of Liquor Gaming and Racing.
                         ability and willingness to effectively police and address inevitable incursions in real time, and not up to 3
                         days later. For the same reason, and again due to the inevitable unchecked disturbance by revellers, after      In addition, acoustic treatment provisions will be introduced for any high density residential development
                         midnight, 7 days a week, I am strongly opposed to any license extension from 10.00pm to midnight.               immediately adjoining the Major Centre Zones at the Noosa Business Centre and Noosa Junction (Old
                                                                                                                                         Bowls Club Site).
                         Further to my submission a recent experience had a DJ and amplified recorded music playing from early
                         evening until 10:45pm. The music set up was in the rear courtyard of the establishment, so open air, and
                         as is typical of such music, it was very loud with a very heavy "doof doof" bass beat. Hundreds of families
                         on Noosa Hill, and other residential areas close to the Junction, were exposed to the constant bass beat
                         for the entire night. Neither closed doors nor closed windows can block out this low frequency noise
                         pollution.
 5801372                 Last year, an ex neighbour of mine living on Noosa Hill, lost a significant amount on sale of their house
                         after the buyer pulled out at very short notice. The buyer's agent's feedback was that the continuous
                         heavy, loud and persistent pop music coming from the Noosa Junction Hospitality Precinct, throughout
                         the week, and late into the night was the primary reason. I am aware the sellers were seeking legal advice
                         regarding whether council could be held liable for their loss, due to council discriminating against them in
                         favour of Noosa Junction businesses, after stating their plan to develop the junction into a late night music
                         venue.
                         We have far too much noise coming from too many businesses in the Junction at night and it is causing
                         distress and loss of sleep to mine and many other families all around the Noosa Junction Hospitality
                         Precinct. There are just too many residents living very close to all the noisy bars for this area to be made
                         a late night music area.



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Table of Submissions made regarding Noosa Plan 2020 Proposed Amendment No. 2, 2024