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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                         The Council should be developing and implementing affordable housing and accessible housing within
                         the existing town plan as the State Government has suggested. If they cannot then they need to explain
                         why. Council also needs to explain why the proposed amendments do not comply with the SEQ Plan
                         The proposed amendments are substantial and have considerable implications for the character of
                         Noosa far beyond the intended aim of providing affordable and accessible accommodation.
                         The changes seek to address a number of important issues but Council has not demonstrated that the
                         proposed changes will be effective in providing affordable and accessible accommodation or worker
                         accommodation while maintaining character and amenity and respecting property holders existing rights
                         available under the current plan.
             23092085    Affordable housing is achieved by the correct balance of land supply (and price) and the ability to deliver
                         affordable housing (complicated further by the post Covid19 significant hikes in construction costs).
                         Council should be considering their policy around two significant lost opportunities:
                         Land Lease Community developments should be encouraged providing low cost manufactured homes as
                         an ownership alternative. Land Lease communities provide a “stamp duty” free entry arrangement further
                         enhancing the affordability option for purchasers. With appropriate design criteria this can be achieved in
                         lower land cost locations thus enhancing the affordability.
                         Small scale dwellings (up to 65m2) within existing and new industrial buildings where the site has sufficient
                         carparking to mitigate additional loads onto the street parking arrangements which are predominantly
                         already maxed out. The dwelling component should not come at the expense of the delivery of usable
                         industrial floor space and more importantly should not be available on the ground floor. The best example
                         of a completely integrated industrial/commercial and warehouse top dwellings development is in Byron
                         Bay. The Byron Bay precinct has become a fully integrated community providing activation 24/7. I would
                         go as far to say these dwellings could also be located on top of the typical industrial structure if height
                         limits are readdressed.
                         All members of the community wish to live in a vibrant and activated precinct where the opportunity to
                         own property is not limited to the elite as lower income groups are continually pushed further and further
                         from their employment opportunities.
 5819677                 There is enough rentals but not sufficient of the cheap under $600pw rentals which were traditionally
                         unrenovated houses and small apartments. An investor has a right to get the best return possible not be
                         a social housing provider.
                         You should do an audit of your land and look to build low cost or crisis housing through developers not
                         for profit or community groups
 5806555                 Opposed bonuses where buildings include 20% of low cost accommodation. This will not work in
                         practice. People who buy/live in high cost, luxury apartments do not want to share with low cost renters.
                         If an agent is used to administer the low cost rentals, how will this work and who pays for their fees?
             23109493    As a general policy, waterfront parkland or bushland should be protected for future generations and not
                         converted in private use or converted to developments. Existing public parks, sporting fields should not
                         be converted into developments or lost as open public space. Planning controls should promote cycling
                         and walking, and use of zero emission transport. Boats on the water should not be considered ‘affordable
                         housing’ with people living permanently aboard. Boats are not the same as: a tiny home, unit, apartment,
                         attached or detached home especially as boats: sink if not maintained and cared for; can burn to the
                         waterline in locations where fire rescue/ appliances cannot get to; typically do not have utilities such as
                         connected water, electricity, gas or sewage capture; or easy means of escape in event of a calamity,
                         apart from jumping overboard; and require constant care, maintenance and repair to keep them fit for
                         purpose – Safe and Environmentally sound - in the harsh marine environment.
             23145857    Noosa Council has spent the last five years talking about providing affordable housing and supporting
                         businesses. Yet it has done nothing about the issue of affordable housing. Instead it is focussed on limiting
                         short term stays and undermining the tourist industry while just talking about affordable housing.
                         Research carried out in other, similar tourist towns like Byron Bay and Lorne in Victoria, demonstrate that
                         limiting short term stays has little or no impact on the availability of affordable rental accommodation.
                         There have been no development approvals for affordable housing in the Noosa Shire and no credible
                         plans that have had proper financial and design analysis. These kinds of projects have long lead times.
                         Councils’ urgent focus should therefore be on how, where and when to provide affordable housing not
                         fiddling around with existing housing stock and compromising the tourism industry. So much time, money
                         and effort is being wasted while businesses are closing down and the workforce is being decimated.
                         The deliberate strategy to limit short term stays and the failure to address the real and pressing need for
                         affordable housing threatens the tourist trade and the whole economy of Noosa.
             23108640    Coles Group is supportive of the changes to AO10/PO10 of the Dual Occupancy and Multiple Dwelling
                         Code which reduces the accessible housing requirements to 1 in 5 from 1 in 3. The reduction in
                         landscaping required for developments which are all small dwellings and a minimum of 10% affordable
                         rental premises is also supported. We are generally supportive of the inclusion of AO20/PO20 of the
                         Driveways and Parking Code which reduces the car parking requirements for small dwellings which

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