2021-12-13 GC Agenda - Item 8 -Attachment 1 - Housing Needs Assessment

and minor changes approved. The applicant now proposes 102 residential aged care beds, however
currently hold no place allocations for the site. Construction has not commenced and there is ongoing
community protest about future development of the site.
Table 40 Allocated Aged Care places Noosa Shire 2021


 Aged Care Facility               Address                                          Places

 Kabara Hostel                    20 Topaz Street, Cooroy           86 operational places

 Japara                           119-123 Moorindil Street,         180 operational places
                                  Tewantin

 Arcare Noosaville                Goodchap Street, Noosaville       90 operational places

 Ozcare Noosa Heads               80 Cooyar Street, Noosa Heads     130 operational places

 Carramar Hostel                  186 Cooroy-Noosa Road,            143 operational places
                                  Tewantin
                                                                    plus 47 non-operational places
                                                                    (dementia)

 Black Mountain Care Farm         521 Elm St Cooroy                 52 non-operational

 Palm Lakes Care Cooroy-          15 Pearsons Road                  120 non-operational
 Noosa

                                                                    629 operational places
                                                                    219 non operational places

Briggs & Mortar found that at 2016, there was already a shortfall of residential care places and that
this shortfall would only increase over the following decades.
Noosa Plan 2020 zones existing and approved residential care facilities specifically for that purpose
in an attempt to protect the use into the future from competing interests, and to make clear to the
community the landuse intent for that land. Development of each of the approved Sunrise Beach,
Tewantin and Palm Lakes facilities is important in meeting the aged care needs of the community in
the future.
Further, in light of an anticipated shortfall in aged care, much of 125 Myall Street Cooroy is zoned
Community Facilities and annotated for Residential Care. However, in 2021 this property was
purchased by a retail property development company. As residential care is not known to be part of
their development portfolio, it is difficult to foresee that was their intention in purchasing the property.


13.5         Retirement Villages and Lifestyle Resorts
Retirement villages or “lifestyle resorts for the over 50’s” fall within the land use definition of
retirement facility which means a residential use of premises for—
(a) accommodation for older members of the community, or retired persons, in independent living
units or serviced units; or
(b) amenity and community facilities, a manager’s residence, health care and support services,
preparing food and drink or staff accommodation, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).
Importantly a retirement facility may either be a retirement village as regulated by the Retirement
Villages Act 1999, or a manufactured home park, regulated under the Manufactured Homes
(Residential Parks) Act 2003.



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