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

        Kids Under Cover is an Australian not-for-profit charity organisation supporting vulnerable
        young people between the ages of 12 and 25 years who are either already homeless or at
        risk of homelessness. They build relocatable, one and two bedroom studios, with a bathroom,
        in the backyard of a family or carer’s home. The extra room relieves overcrowding, eases
        tension and provides young people with a secure and stable environment. The studio remains
        in place for as long as it’s required.
        Studios are prefabricated, with its entire kit flat-packed with pre-assembled frames and
        transported via truck to the installation location. Erected and fully fitted within 10 days, they
        are demountable and able to be flat-packed for relocation up to four times.
        These do not have kitchens so would qualify as part of the detached house, not even a
        secondary dwelling.
7.4.2            Dual occupancy
The use definition of a dual occupancy (at times referred to as a duplex) is as follows:
        dual occupancy—
        (a) means a residential use of premises for 2 households involving—
               (i) 2 dwellings (whether attached or detached) on a single lot or 2 dwellings (whether
               attached or detached) on separate lots that share a common property; and
               (ii) any domestic outbuilding associated with the dwellings; but
        (b) does not include a residential use of premises that involves a secondary dwelling.


The Noosa Plan 2020 generally allows a dual occupancy in the Medium Density Residential and
High Density Residential zones, in the Tourist Accommodation Zone unless specifically excluded
(e.g. in Hastings Street and key resort sites), in the Major Centre Zone, District Centre Zone, Local
Centre Zone and Neighbourhood Centre Zone. In centre zones it is usually expected to form part of
a mixed use development. Dual occupancies might be considered as an underutilisation of land in
the Medium or High Density Residential zones if a greater number of dwellings could be achieved.
Numerous local governments in South East Queensland have found that a large proportion of new
houses in greenfield developments are being developed and marketed as “dual key” properties
taking advantage of secondary dwelling provisions in neighbourhoods where a dual occupancy
would not be allowed. In new estates where house blocks are smaller and roadways typically
narrower this is particularly leading to problems of overcrowding and parking congestion, yielding a
population noticeably greater than originally planned for. This in part is thought to be one of the
reasons the State seeks to hold a strict line on the definition of secondary dwelling.


7.4.3            Multiple dwellings
A Multiple dwelling means a residential use of premises involving 3 or more dwellings, whether
attached or detached, for separate households. These might be called flats, units, apartments, villa,
townhouses etc.
Noosa Plan 2020 allows multiple dwellings in the Medium Density Residential and High Density
Residential zones, in the Tourist Accommodation Zone unless specifically excluded (e.g. in Hastings
Street and key resort sites), in the Major Centre Zone, District Centre Zone, Local Centre Zone and
Neighbourhood Centre Zone. In centre zones it is usually expected to form part of a mixed use
development.
The inclusion of this use in the Medium Density Residential zone is particularly important and is in
some way a departure from the previous scheme which included a Semi-Attached Housing Zone
where development was limited to a duplex, and units not supported. Previous planning schemes
actually favoured duplexes over multiple dwellings in terms of plot ratio and site cover.


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