Letter from Adamson Town Planning Pty Ltd - 5 March 2018 · 51985.3785.05

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Planning Act 2016

Under section 78 of the Planning Act 2016, an application can be made to make a minor
change to a current approval. Under the Schedule 1 of the Development Assessment Rules, an
assessment manager may determine that the change is a minor change, where amongst other
criteria a minor change is a change that:
    (i)     would not result in substantially different development; and
    (ii)    if a development application for the development, including the change, were made
            when the change application is made would not cause:
            A) the inclusion of prohibited development in the application; or
            B) referral to a referral agency, other than to the chief executive, if there were no
                 referral agencies for the development application; or
            C) referral to extra referral agencies, other than to the chief executive; or
            D) a referral agency to assess the application against, or have regard to, matters
                 prescribed by regulation under section 55(2), other than matters the referral
                 agency must have assessed the application against, or have had regard to, when
                 the application was made; or
            E) public notification if public notification was not required for the development
                 application.

Under Schedule 1, a change may be considered to result in a substantially different
development if the proposed change:
   (a) involves a new use; or
   (b) results in the application applying to a new parcel of land; or
   (c) dramatically changes the built form in terms of scale, bulk and appearance; or
   (d) changes the ability of the proposed development to operate as intended; or
   (e) removes a component that is integral to the operation of the development; or
   (f) significantly impacts on traffic flow and the transport network, such as increasing traffic
       to the site; or
   (g) introduces new impacts or increase the severity of known impacts; or
   (h) removes an incentive or offset component that would have balanced a negative impact
       of the development; or
   (i) impacts on infrastructure provisions.

In my opinion, having regard to the above, the proposed part balcony enclosure will not
dramatically change the existing built form and otherwise will not result in a substantially
different development. Further, having regard to other the matters for a minor change (above),
the proposed development is a minor change pursuant to section 78 of Planning Act 2016.

Noosa Plan 2006

Under the Noosa Plan the subject land is within the Noosa Heads Locality and is included in
the Attached Housing Zone. The existing commercial centre at Quamby Place is included in
the Neighbourhood Centre Zone. Adjoining the land to the west is other multiple dwelling
developments, which are also included in the Attached Housing Zone.



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