Planning Report - Food and Drink Outlet

1.    Summary

Coffee Rock Investments Pty Ltd (the Applicant) have engaged RG Strategic to seek development
approval for a code assessment application for a Material Change of Use – Food & Drink Outlet for
what is known as Café Le Monde within the Ocean Breeze Resort (refer to the Architectural plans
enclosed in Appendix A).

The subject site is a renovation of the Cafe. The renovation includes:

•    The reconfiguration of the approved roof form to be square to the existing dominate building to
     the rear of the site;

• 2 defined seating areas and a centrally located walkway access from Hastings Street;

• Provide a staggered presentation to the street and additional landscaping;

• A 26.6m2 small roof deck to the western side of the lot which includes a landscaped green roof.
     The roof deck dining area is setback 3m from the front boundary;

• A lightweight roof over the eastern part of the use area;

• Additional landscaping to the frontage ranging in width from 1m to 2.6m;

• An average setback greater than 4m;

• No net increase to total use area.

Figure 1 below provides a 3D perspective of the proposal.




Figure 1 - Street elevation 3D perspective
The external presentation includes a lightweight timber structure to the eastern part of the site and
a roofed structure incorporating outdoor dining with the majority of the roof being a landscaped
green roof to the western part of the site.

The proposal constitutes ‘development’ as defined by Schedule 2 of the Planning Act 2016. This
report demonstrates that the proposed Material Change of Use is permitted.

This planning report provides details of the nature of the proposal, describes the site characteristics


RG Strategic                      Town Planning Report – 52 Hastings St, Café Le Monde                2