MCU18.0166 - Response to Information Request (amended)

8. Response to planning conditions
The Proposal is generally consistent with the intent and strategies identified in Noosa Planning Scheme
Policy 23— Telecommunication Towers. The following assessment uses the requirements of this policy as
a guide.
T ABLE 8.1 ASSESSMENT AGAINST N OOSA P LANNING SCHEME POLICY 23— TELECOMMUNICATION TOWERS

 Requirement                     Response
 Council is unlikely to support proposals that would result in the following:
 a)   Loss of vegetation on      An approximately 300m2 area of trees would be removed for
      steep slopes or            construction of the proposal. This area is located on the upper
      ridgelines; or             slopes of the property, but this is not a steep slope, and it is set
                                 down from the ridgeline. This would not result in a significant
                                 change to the vegetation cover on this small ridgeline site, which
                                 has been partially cleared for rural residential use.

 b)   Visual scaring or the      The proposal site is not visible from the any major roads.
      degradation of views       King Street is the main street in the township of Cooran. Views from
      or vistas from the         this location would not be adversely impacted and therefore not
      major road network;        ‘degraded’ or ‘visually scarred’.
      or
 c)   Loss of distinct           The proposal site is located approximately two kilometres northeast
      character associated       of the rural town of Cooran, within the Cooran Tablelands. Although
      with the various           there may be glimpses to the upper limits of the monopole from
      towns, villages or rural   some properties of the northern edge of Cooran and within some
      areas of the Shire; or     properties, roads and trails in the tablelands landscape, the
                                 monopole would be a relatively minor visual element in a landscape
                                 which includes transmission lines and other infrastructure. The
                                 distinct character of this area would not be affected by the
                                 proposal.

 d)   Alteration to key          The landform of the proposal site would be slightly altered, with
      landform and               some minor earthworks surrounding the construction zone to install
      landscape characters       the monopole. This would, however, not result in a substantial
      such that they become      change in the landform and character of the rural residential site
      dominated by the           nor dominating the landscape character.
      facility; or
 e)   Impact on views to         The proposal site is not visible from any waterway, beach or riparian
      and from waterways,        zone.
      beaches and riparian
      zones. (s.3.2)




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