App F - Code Table - Visitor Accommodation Code

Noosa Plan 2020: Amendment 3
Part 9 Development codes \ 9.3 Use Codes \ 9.3.5 Visitor Accommodation Code




                                                        In the Rural zone or Rural Residential zone the site
                                                        used for Nature-based tourism or short-term
                                                        accommodation has a minimum area of 4 hectares.

Effects of use

PO3                                                     No acceptable outcome provided                         PO3 – Complies
Development has a scale and density that is                                                                    The proposed short-term accommodation has a scale
compatible with the intent of the zone and the                                                                 and density that is compatible with the intent of the
preferred character for the local area in which it is                                                          Rural Zone and the preferred character of the local
located.                                                                                                       area.

                                                                                                               The use is to be established within an existing
                                                                                                               approved self-contained small dwelling on a 41.56
                                                                                                               hectare rural property. No new building work,
                                                                                                               vegetation clearing, earthworks, access changes or
                                                                                                               servicing upgrades are proposed.

                                                                                                               Importantly, the proposal reduces the scale and
                                                                                                               intensity of visitor accommodation on the land. Rather
                                                                                                               than continuing short-term accommodation within the
                                                                                                               existing larger five-bedroom main dwelling, the use is
                                                                                                               to be confined to the much smaller one-bedroom
                                                                                                               small dwelling.

                                                                                                               This results in a materially reduced visitor
                                                                                                               accommodation outcome that is more consistent with
                                                                                                               the low-intensity rural character of the locality.

                                                                                                               The proposal supports the primary residential function
                                                                                                               of the land. The main dwelling is occupied by one of
                                                                                                               the owners as her principal place of residence and is
                                                                                                               to be retained for permanent residential occupation.
                                                                                                               The application does not seek approval for an
                                                                                                               additional short-term accommodation use on the land.
                                                                                                               Rather, the existing short-term accommodation
                                                                                                               approval applying to the main dwelling will be
                                                                                                               relinquished, and short-term accommodation will be
                                                                                                               confined to the existing 46.5m² small dwelling.

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