Planning Report

3.0       PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

The proposed extensions and alterations to the existing aged care facility trigger a material change of use
application.

The proposed development at Noosa Care Inc at 186 Cooroy Noosa Road Tewantin involves 32
additional residential aged care beds (approved by the Commonwealth Department of Health and
Ageing) specifically to care for frail, elderly people who have high care requirements. The residents of the
proposed new 32 bed unit will have been assessed by the Commonwealth Aged Care Assessment Team
as having significant physical and/ or cognitive limitations and deficits resulting in the need for full time
care.

This means that the residents require extensive supportive care in order to meet their basic activities of
daily living, remaining largely within the confines of the proposed new building until their transfer to
another facility or until death. The nature of the health status of the future residents of the proposed new
development would not be able to use public amenities or facilities such as public parks, footpaths or
other public recreational areas.

This development has no resemblance to a retirement living development where the majority of the
occupiers of those developments remain physically active and engaged within the general community,
many with full mobility and capacity to continue to hold a car driver s licence and remain in full control
of their lives.

The other elements of the proposal are summarised below:

      repositioning the reception and administration facility to a new building adjoining the existing
      activities block in the centre of the site;
      a drop off / pick-up facility via a porte cochere in front of the new reception building;
      88 off-street car parking bays located behind the vegetated frontage to Cooroy Noosa Road, east of
      the existing access, and a new ambulance bay and loading bay; and
      repositioning the maintenance facilities to two small sheds west of the proposed special care unit.

No buildings, structures or car parking areas are proposed within the Q100 flood line.

The plans of the proposed development are included in Appendix C.




                                                                                         Development Permit for a MCU
                                                                                         NoosaCare Inc
                                                                                         186 Cooroy-Noosa Road, Tewantin

                                                                                         Buckley Vann
                                                                                         Town Planning Consultants

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