MCU10/2083 Development Application part 2 - Attachment 1 - Town Planning Report & Code Assessment_FINAL_291010

KHA DEVELOPMENT MANAGERS                                                       TOWN PLANNING REPORT 100407




   There are no alternative locations available in Noosaville for a convenience centre:
     o Our assessment has found no suitably zoned sites.
     o There are no development applications for convenience retail centres in Noosaville.
     o As per their letters of interest (Appendix B), convenience retailers have been unable to find a
       suitable location for their business in the area. …

Development of the proposed convenience retail centre would satisfy a range of consumer needs:
 increasing the range and availability of convenience retailing including food and beverage services
   in the local area;

   expanding the choice of convenience store operators and food and beverage services in the area;

   increasing the level of convenience in terms of operating hours and car parking;

   increasing affordably priced food and beverage services;

   providing access to a wider range of goods and services in a convenient location with high
    visibility and good vehicular access and parking;

   reducing the need to travel to convenience centres further afield for the purchase of basic
    convenience items, including take away food meals;

   providing the opportunity for local residents and visitors to walk and cycle to the convenience
    centre generating savings in travel time and costs;

   enhancing the potential for convenient multi-purpose trips such as to the centre and tavern;

   enhancing competition in the local area, which could have positive impacts on prices;

   providing a focus for social and community interaction through the food and beverage facilities;
    and

   creating additional employment opportunities both in the short-term during the construction
    phase as well as in the long-term.

Our investigations and market assessment conclude that there is a community and planning need for
the development and the proposal will create a benefit to the community. Local residents and visitors
would unarguably benefit from a modern convenience retail centre, including a small convenience
store and a complementary range of food and beverage services.

The proposal will ensure the provision of appropriate facilities to meet community needs for basic
requirements. The Noosaville convenience centre is not expected to jeopardise the vitality or viability,
or threaten the functional roles and levels of service competitive centres provide to the community.

This report therefore establishes that a planning need, as a matter of public interest, exists for the
proposed development and use and which satisfies the relevant criteria for need as a sufficient
ground to justify the decision.

In summary the sufficient grounds to justify the proposed use are:

1. there is a genuine community need for the proposed development;

2. there is significant demand for the facility particularly in light of the existing undersupply of
   convenience retail facilities in the Noosaville area;

3. there is a lack of alternative suitably zoned sites in the local area;


DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION FOR MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE – CONVENIENCE CENTRE                            PAGE 20
37 GIBSON ROAD, NOOSAVILLE
LOT 1 RP 802167