2022-11-08 Planning & Environment Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                 8 NOVEMBER 2022


      (p)   Activities in industry zones provide important services and products to the community
            and provide a range of employment types.
The Code also details more specific requirements in the Performance Outcomes including PO15
which states:
PO15 Development in the Low Impact Industry zone and the Medium Impact Industry zone:
      a)    provides a range of enterprises that contribute to the economic diversity of the Shire
            and local employment options;
      b)    provides important industries and service-related functions to the whole of Noosa Shire
            but particularly the coastal area;
      c)    offers a range and diversity of employment types;
      d)    does not accommodate uses better located in a centre zone
      e)    does not detract from the safe function or amenity of Eumundi Noosa Road, Walter
            Hay Drive or Eenie Creek Road; and
      f)    does not accommodate uses that would harm the environment, including Eenie Creek,
            Lake Doonella and Lake Weyba, through excessive pollutants.
The applicant submits that the proposed bar complies with PO15 on the following basis:
•     The proposed Bar contributes to the diversification of the local economy, given that a gin
      distillery with associated food and beverage provision attached is not provided in the
      Noosaville locality at present. Further, the introduction of a Bar that is operational outside
      standard business hours onsite, enables the efficient use of industrial land for activities that
      are ancillary to manufacturing activities undertaken during the day on weekdays
•     The proposal contributes to a range and diversity of employment types, with manufacturing
      staff present onsite during business hours and Bar staff present onsite during the operational
      hours of the tasting area;
•     The proposed Bar cannot be accommodated in a Centre Zone on the basis that it is intended
      to be operated in direct association with the gin distillery business onsite, which is an
      industrial use able to be located in an industrial zone only;
•      The subject site is not located on Eumundi Noosa Road, Walter Hay Drive or Eenie Creek
      Road. As such, the proposed development will not detract from the safe function or amenity
      of these roads; and
•     The proposed Bar use will not harm the environment, on the basis that it does not result in
      the release of emissions from the site.
The purpose of the Medium Impact Industry is to provide for medium impact industry and other
uses and activities that support industrial activities and do not compromise the future use of
premises for industry activities. The overall outcomes further state that development is to facilitate
the efficient use of land for medium impact industries and supporting ancillary uses.
The inclusion of non-industrial activities in industrial precincts are generally not supported and in
the past have created a number of issues including reverse amenity impacts on existing industrial
businesses, parking and traffic conflicts and a reduction in land available for industrial uses.
The Noosa Plan 2020 does not support the inclusion of entertainment activities in this location,
however it does support small ancillary retail sales and ancillary food and drink uses where they
are not greater than 30% of the total gross floor area of the site or 60m2 whichever is the lesser.
Whilst a small section of the front of the premises for tasting of the product manufactured on site
is considered appropriate, concerns are raised as to the number of patrons (40 persons) proposed.
The proposed bar area comprises 31% of the industrial tenancy floor area excluding the external
queuing area (16m2) at the front of the site and at this scale is not considered to be ancillary.
A Bar is an entertainment activity under the Noosa Plan and is defined as:

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