Town Planning Assessment Report

Cooroy & Lake Macdonald Locality Code

A broad conflict is raised with the locality code provisions for the site because the
scheme does not anticipate or provide for urban development in the Rural
Settlement Zone. The scheme subsequently makes Infrastructure Uses ‘Inconsistent’ in
within the zone. The conflict is most reflected in the below Overall Outcome:

u) For the Semi-Attached Housing Zone—residents are accommodated in
detached or semi-attached housing forms that—

i offer a high level of residential amenity, design quality and safety; and
ii respect the domestic scale of surrounding detached housing;

While there is a degree of conflict with the planning scheme because the proposal is
not a residential use, it was found that the overall outcomes as an entirety provide
support for the proposed land use. The most relevant outcomes are detailed below:



6.8.2 a) New uses and works are located, designed and managed to— i be
compatible with other uses and works;

ii maintain the safety of works;

iii avoid significant adverse impacts on the amenity enjoyed by users of other
premises, including acoustic and visual qualities; and

iv avoid significant adverse effects on the natural environment, including native
habitat removal, fragmentation and attrition;

d) Cooroy retains its role as the major business centre for Noosa’s hinterland area;

g) The traditional built form of Cooroy is retained and new development
complements traditional streetscape and building forms;

h) Outside the town of Cooroy, development is characterised by— ....

ii conservation of open space for biodiversity and water quality purposes; ....

i) Economic activities are focused on—

i Cooroy’s role as the principal business and service centre for the hinterland;

ii Cooroy’s industrial estate;

iii technology based businesses reliant on broadband communication;

iv timber industry initiatives and product manufacturing at the Nandroya Mill site;




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