2015-04-28 Planning and Organisation Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                 28 APRIL 2015


RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Governance Advisor to the Planning & Organisation
Committee Meeting dated 28 April 2015 and:
A.   Note the Anti-competitive Provisions Assessment (provided in Attachment 5 to the
     report), which provides that whilst the proposed Noosa Shire Council Local Laws
     No 1 and No 4, and the proposed Noosa Shire Council Subordinate Local Laws
     No 1 and No 4, contain some anti-competitive provisions, the impacts of these
     provisions are not considered significant to warrant further public interest assessment;
B.   Repeal the current Noosa Shire Council Local Laws 2011 No 1 to No 6 (inclusive) on
     30 June 2015, and make the proposed Noosa Shire Council Local Laws No 1 to No 6
     (inclusive) (provided at Attachment 1 to the report) to commence operation on
     1 July 2015;
C.   Repeal the current Noosa Shire Council Subordinate Local Laws 2011 No 1, No 3,
     No 4 and No 5 on 30 June 2015, and make the proposed Noosa Shire Council
     Subordinate Local Laws No 1, No 3, No 4 and No 5 (provided at Attachment 2 to the
     report) to commence operation on 1 July 2015;
D.   Repeal the current Noosa Shire Council Subordinate Local Laws No 2 and No 6 on
     30 June 2015, and make the amended proposed Noosa Shire Council Subordinate
     Local Laws No 2 and No 6 (provided at Attachment 3 to the report) to commence
     operation on 1 July 2015;
E.   Authorise the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to undertake the process to have L.G. 43
     Peregian Beach Bathing Reserve reduced in size, (to allow dogs on the beach
     between beach access 59 and beach access 67) and have the reconfigured Bathing
     Reserve gazetted in accordance with the Local Government Act 2009;
F.   Authorise the CEO to make any minor non substantial formatting amendments (if
     required) prior to certification and commencement of the new suite of local laws;
G.   Advertise the new local laws by publishing a notice in the Government Gazette and on
     Noosa Council’s website, within 1 month of the Council adopting this resolution;
H.   Ensure that a copy of each new local law is made available to be inspected and
     purchased at the Tewantin Council Office, and can also be viewed and downloaded
     from Council’s website; and
I.   Within 14 days after the abovementioned notice is published in the gazette, provide
     the Minister with a copy of the notice and a copy of each local law and subordinate law
     in electronic format.



REPORT
1.   Overview of the Public Consultation Process

The public consultation process conducted in relation to the proposed subordinate local laws
No 1 to No 6 (inclusive) ran for 26 days from 23 February 2015 to 20 March 2015.

In total 684 submissions from the community were received via email and post. In addition to
the formal submissions received comments from ‘Your Say Noosa’ and Facebook were also
considered during the process. A summary of the submissions received is outlined in the
table below.




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