L04 To NSC -Lodge MCA

4.2         Development Assessment

In assessing this Change Application, Council as its assessment manager must consider that planning
scheme as in effect when the original development application was properly made (S81 of Planning Act
2016). This change application refers to this planning scheme as the originating planning scheme above.
The Planning Act also provides for Council to be able to give appropriate weight to, among other things,
the planning scheme when the change application was made. This is the Noosa Plan 2020.

The site is currently included in the Tourist Accommodation Zone and in the Hastings Street Mixed Use
Precinct and the Noosa Heads Local Plan area under the Noosa Plan 2020.

The following comments are offered in relation to the assessment of this change application:

      1.    All works proposed in the change application remain within the site (i.e. Lot 17 on GTP1154)
            and no additional works are proposed with the Common Property (or another lot) in The
            Hastings CTS.

      2.    The proposed changes do not result in any change in approved use within the site or on th
            scheme land.

      3.    The maximum building height in metres will increase from 13.70m. to 13.95m on AHD (i.e. a
            height increase from 11.47m. to 11.72m. above ground level) as a result of the proposed
            changes. There will be no increase of maximum building height in storeys. The proposed
            maximum building height of 11.72m. is below the 15m. in the Noosa Plan 2020, noting that
            the building is clearly greater than 10m. from both Hastings Street and Noosa Drive.

      4.    The increases increase in gross floor area on all levels from the approved 161.88m2 to
            177.8m2 is not conflict with the Noosa Plan 2020 given that the site is include in the Tourist
            Accommodation Zone and in the Hastings Street Mixed Use Precinct under the 2020 Noosa
            Plan. Itis also noted that the site is within a lot in a community titles scheme comprising
            residential uses and shops. The proposal will not result in the maximum gross floor area for
            the scheme land for the residential component exceeding that allowed under the Noosa
            Plan 2020.

      5.    The increase in site cover over the scheme land to 35% is below that in the 45% in the
            Hastings Street mixed use precinct under the Noosa Plan 2020.

      6.    The boundary setbacks from the proposal to the relevant boundaries of the scheme land are
            greater than the minimum setbacks nominated for sites on the southern side of Hastings
            Street and west of Noosa Drive under the Noosa Plan 2020.

      7.    The proposal does not result in any increase in the number of bedrooms in the approved
            premises.

      8.    The proposed change does not alter the number of parking spaces within the site, nor
            generate the need for additional parking spaces, nor impact on access to/from
            existing/approved parking spaces either within the site or the scheme land.

      9.    The proposal does not impact on any existing open space or landscaping within common
            property in the scheme land.

      10.    Given the location of the site, the proposal will not be contribute significantly to the
            streetscape when viewed from Noosa Parade. In any regard the contribution will not be
            noticeably different to that likely to result from the existing development approval.

      11. The proposed changes do not impact on the use of the easement through the scheme land
          as a Key Pedestrian Cycle Link as identified in Figure 7.2.5.5 - Hastings Street Framework
          & Character Plan in the Noosa Plan 2020.

      12. The removal of the truncation of the approved deck on the roof top terrace does not
          detrimentally impact on the privacy or residential amenity of any surrounding premises. It is


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