MCU22/0051 APPLICATION FOR MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE HARDWARE & TRADE SUPPLIES AT 178 EUMUNDI NOOSA ROAD, NOOSAVILLE (Referred from Planning & Environment Committee dated 10 October 2023 - Item 5.2). · ATTACHMENT 2 – ACTING COORDINATOR PLANNING REPORT

b) provides important industries and service-related functions to the whole of Noosa Shire but
   particularly the coastal area;
c) offers a range and diversity of employment types;
d) does not accommodate uses better located in a centre zone
e) does not detract from the safe function or amenity of Eumundi Noosa Road, Walter Hay Drive
   or Eenie Creek Road; and
f) does not accommodate uses that would harm the environment, including Eenie Creek, Lake
   Doonella and Lake Weyba, through excessive pollutants.
The proposed use is industrial in nature, providing bulk quantities of construction material for the
construction industry requiring an industrial scale building. The proposed use is not expected to
generate fumes, odour or excessive noise beyond vehicle movements and loading/unloading of
goods, operating predominantly within the building and is well separated from the residential area
to the west. Some further design elements though are needed to create further visual interest to
the street, with the building presentation relatively ‘bland’ comparable to the existing Bunnings
store building.
3.3.2 Zone Code
The site is zoned Medium Impact Industry and is located outside the Gateway Drive West Makers
Precinct under the Noosa Plan. The following overall outcomes from the Medium Impact Industry
Zone Code are most applicable to the proposal:
(a)   development facilitates the efficient use of land for medium impact industries and
      supporting ancillary uses;
(e)   new uses are located, designed and managed to be compatible with surrounding uses and
      development;
(f)   retail sales more appropriately located in business centres, such as shops, showrooms and
      retail-based hardware supplies are avoided, except on land fronting Eumundi Noosa Road
      or Eenie Creek Service Road Noosaville where showrooms may locate;
(k)   buildings are well designed, safe and visually attractive;
(l)   development is low rise building and does not present bulky to the street frontages;
(n)   Building setbacks incorporate attractive landscaped areas to road frontages with greater
      landscape setbacks provided to Eumundi Noosa Road;
The trade yard is consistent with the intent of the zone for industrial uses to locate, with the
applicant advising that no changes are proposed to the Bunnings Warehouse with the store
continuing to operate in accordance with the original approval. The applicant further advises that
in this regard Bunnings Warehouse stores and Bunnings Trade stores are targeted at different
markets/different customer groups and the goods and services are carefully tailored accordingly.
The two types of stores are noted as having a different external appearance and signage with the
trade store design being trade focused. Each store type provides a ‘one-stop shop’ to ensure a
trade customer does not also have to visit a warehouse store and product lines that are likely to
be required by both retail and trade customers are therefore duplicated across both stores.
Ordinarily trade centres are located separately from the retail warehouses, whereas the Noosaville
site will be an exception in that land which happens to be available adjoins the retail warehouse.
The above aspects are considered an important consideration of assessment given that Council
in approving the original Bunnings store, found that the store, while containing a significant retail
component and nursery, also included a significant hardware component and timber sales area
which was consistent with the industrial zoning of the site. The proposed trade store is considered
to provide an industrial use consistent with the intent of the zone.
The following table provides an assessment of the proposal against the key acceptable outcomes
for built form for the Medium Impact Industry zone.