2015-11-10 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                           10 NOVEMBER 2015


Water Supply Catchment Mapping

Two submissions were receive regarding properties which have never been included in the water
supply catchment of Lake Macdonald in the Noosa planning schemes, but which, with the
adoption of the State’s mapping as requested, will be.

As shown on the following extract, Council’s own long term catchment mapping (shown in green)
differs significantly from the State’s mapping (shown in blue) as shown in the State Planning
Policy and supplied by SEQ Water. Staff agree that the submitters’ properties (13 McPauls
Road, and 25 Pine Tree Drive, highlighted with orange stars on the following map) are not
included within the catchment of Lake Macdonald.

As it was a State Interest condition that the State’s water supply buffer area be applied it is
suggested that for the purpose of the current scheme, and in light of the fact that only two such
submissions were received, the boundary of the mapping is modified in this particular stretch and
subsequently seek to apply more accurate catchment mapping in the next planning scheme
following further consultation with the State. Verbal advice from Department of Infrastructure,
Local Government and Planning suggests that this approach would be acceptable.

A separate submission requested that the water supply catchment not be applied at all over
Cooroy’s Urban Footprint or Urban Growth Boundary however this submission is not supported.




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