2018-05-08 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                     8 MAY 2018


2.   BACKGROUND
A development approval for a Material Change of Use of Premises - Multiple housing Type 4
Conventional - 37 units was issued on 15 June 2017.
The approval provided for a four storey development in two buildings with a common access over
the two lots. Setback and height relaxations were granted. A summarised version of the
approved plans is provided in Attachment 2.
The site forms part of the Settlers Cove Master Planned Community and the lots have both been
approved for unit developments since March 2005. These previous approvals included design
concessions in terms of setbacks and building height over the sites.


3.   STATUTORY PROCESS
The applicant has requested to make a minor change to a development approval under s78 of
the Planning Act 2016. An application for a minor change to a development approval can only be
made in circumstances where a change would constitute a ‘minor change’.
The proposed change to the development approval requested by the applicant is determined to
constitute a minor change on the grounds that:
   the change would not result in substantially different development as the use remains the
     same as that approved and the scale and bulk of the development remains generally
     consistent with the current approval. There are no new uses proposed that would create
     different or additional impacts;
   the change does not include prohibited development;
   the change would not require the application to be referred to an additional referral agency
     or cause a referral agency to have regard to new mattes prescribed by regulation; and
   the proposed changes do not vary the level of assessment with the original development
     application impact assessable.


4.   ASSESSMENT
Given that the current application was approved in June 2017, there are no significant changes in
the matters that applied when the development application was initially assessed compared to
current requirements.
The applicable planning instruments that Council must have regard to are:
   State Planning Regulatory Provisions;
   State Planning Policies; and
   2006 Noosa Plan.
The original approval was considered consistent with the higher order State Regulatory
Provisions and Planning Policies. The proposed design modifications will not substantially
change the existing approval and are still consistent with the higher order provisions.
The application was assessed under the 2006 Noosa Plan. There have been no significant
changes to this planning scheme relevant to the application since the original approval issued in
2017.




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