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

There are four local retirement villages with registered Retirement Village Schemes: Hibiscus
Retirement Resort Noosa Outlook, Laguna Retirement Estate, Noosa Waters Retirement Estate and
Noosa Domain Village.
The register of Residential Parks (Manufactured Homes) includes Ingenia Holidays Noosa,
Tewantin; Cooroy Village, Ferrells Rd, Cooroy; and Palm Lake Resort Cooroy. Residents own their
'manufactured home', that is the building itself, but not the land on which it sits. Therefore, residents
must pay a regular site rent to the park owner.
Riverlands in Tewantin also functions as a retirement facility but was developed as a group title so
each home is a separate title and the common property includes communal facilities.


Table 41 Retirement Facilities Noosa Shire 2021


 Name                       Location              Dwellings
 Palm Lake Resort           19 Trading Post       220 detached homes.
                            Road, Cooroy
 Hibiscus Noosa             71 St Andrews         236 dwellings.
 Outlook                    Dr, Tewantin
 Riverlands Mature          139 Moorindil         145 dwellings.
 Aged Village               St, Tewantin
 Ingenia Lifestyle          141 Cooroy            44 dwellings
 Noosa (Bougainvillea       Noosa Rd,
 Gardens)                   Tewantin
 Laguna Estate              21 Lake Weyba         187 semi-attached units, approximately 68 with 3 bedrooms,
 Retirement Village         Dr, Noosaville        and 118 with 2 bedrooms. These are mostly arranged as semi-
                                                  detached dwellings. A small two storey block of serviced
                                                  apartments is also located on site.
 Noosa Waters               39 Lake Weyba         Around 76 units with 2 bedrooms or 2 bedrooms plus study.
 Retirement Estate          Drive,                Owned and operated by Southern Cross Care.
                            Noosaville
 Noosa Domain               35 Walter Hay         97 independent living villas and 58 independent living
 Country Club               Drive,                apartments
                            Noosaville


While retirement facilities are typically provided by either for-profit or not-for-profit organisations, in
Noosa Shire there are currently no not-for-profit facilities. For some years approval has been in place
for an additional 180 independent living unit in the proposed Sundale facility at Tewantin and 109
units in the Blue Care facility at Sunrise Beach (both not-for-profit organisations).
Retirement housing providers generally see the low-income market as unprofitable62, so while the
demand for high quality age-specific housing is high, the development of lower cost housing remains
in doubt.
Like Residential Aged Care, the Retirement Village industry has been affected by COVID19.
However where the residential care industry has been prioritised in various ways retirement villages
have not. Elderly people are particularly vulnerable and adhering to social distancing rules negate
some of the otherwise benefits of a retirement community.




62 Bridge C., Davy L., Judd B., Flatau P., Morris A. and Phibbs P. (2011) Age-specific housing and care for low

to moderate income older people, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute


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