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

18.7.2          Covered spaces
The planning scheme specifically requires covered carparking spaces for a house, dual occupancy
or multiple dwelling. The requirement for covered spaces for multiple housing has been in place for
a long time (since at least 1985). While having protection for a car may be a common expectation, it
is not necessarily a matter Council should require. Again it is perhaps an example of how the cost of
owning or keeping a car is a real component of housing cost.
For a house, the 2006 Noosa Plan required one space (not specifically covered). In the past it was
not unusual for older homes to have no garage or carport, then a detached garage built somewhere
on site, or built in under the house.
The 2020 scheme now requires two covered spaces for a house not including a secondary dwelling,
and for a house including a secondary dwelling it requires two covered spaces plus one additional
space.
This places quite a burden on a property owner who seeks to add a secondary dwelling to an existing
older house with no or only one existing carparking space. They have the cost of building covered
carparking as well as the secondary dwelling itself. Indeed any building additions or extensions to
an older house is triggering the need for two covered carparking spaces and sometimes this cannot
be constructed without encroaching into a boundary setback.
Providing residential development includes sufficient space for on-site carparking, it should not be
the role of the planning scheme to dictate it is covered.
18.8       Siting of rural houses
The Noosa Plan 2020 prevents a sensitive land use in the Rural and Rural Residential Zone being
established within 200 metres of adjoining land mapped as Agricultural Land Conservation Area.
This includes the construction of a house. Hence home builders need to go through planning
approval, regardless of whether farming is occurring on the neighbouring property or not. Amending
these provision in relation to a dwelling house could reduce the red-tape and cost of constructing a
house on rural properties.




Noosa Housing Needs Assessment 2021                                                        Page 139