Further response to information request June 12.06.2020 · MCU19/0117

The proposal for visitor accommodation is the primary use of the premises, and it is not
intended to use the premises for activities other than visitor accommodation. The visitor
accommodation will be made more attractive by the provision of the ancillary use of a
wave lagoon and not be made available for others. On that basis, the wave lagoon is
ancillary to the primary use of the planning unit as ‘visitor accommodation’, similar to the
other larger ancillary facilities on private property, such as the golf course at 368 Dath
Henderson Rd, Tinbeerwah.
The proposed 4,000m2 lagoon is similar in scale to other private dams on the North Shore,
which are used for Rural Residential and Visitor Accommodation purposes. It is intended
to open the lagoon’s use up to other visitor accommodation buildings on the site – when
further short-term accommodation buildings are applied for under The New Noosa Plan.
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2. Insufficient justification has been provided to clear 1.27H of Cat C High Value
   Regrowth/Env Protection/Koala Habitat Area. There is also a mismatch between
   plans provided, i.e. 4000m2 water surface area and 6,000m2 footprint on site
   plan verses 5,700m2 water surface area and 1.05H footprint on IR TOD plan.
Please find attached detailed updated proposal plans and addendum to Ecological
Assessment Report. The report details that approximately 1.3ha of the 14.85ha site is
proposed to be cleared, which represents 8.7% of the Visitor Mixed Use zoned site.
The original planning for the development allowed for an irrigation area to be developed
within Easement A and the clearing of up to 2.7ha (or 18.1%) of the site along the Beach
Rd frontage. This would accommodate the effluent disposal irrigation area footprint, and
a further 0.15ha around each house site and roads (total = 9.9ha or 66% of site to be
cleared).
The owner is in negotiations to preserve this vegetation along the frontage of the site and
extinguish the easement for overflow irrigation to be required and for the vegetation to be
cleared adjacent to Beach Rd would now be retained. This will ensure a net benefit in
vegetation being retained across the site, as shown below.




Figure.2 Vegetation Clearing footprint (green) and original clearing footprint for irrigation
area (red).
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