Engineering Roads Report (Traffic)

  Noosa Fair and Bowls Club Redevelopment

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4.3        Existing / Surveyed Parking Demands

4.3.1      Noosa Fair Shopping Centre
TTM undertook a parking demand survey within the area identified in Figure 4.1 on Thursday 29th
November 2012 between 8:00am-7:00pm and Saturday 1st December 2012 between 8:00am-
5:00pm. The areas surveyed are shown in Figure 4.1 and the survey results are available upon
request.




Figure 4.1: Parking Demand Survey Locations within Noosa Junction

The car park usage for zones 1, 2 and 3 are directly attributed to the existing Noosa Fair Shopping
Centre. The peak parking demand surveyed in these zones was 313 spaces. This peak demand
occurred at 11am on the Thursday. This relates to a parking demand of 4.5 spaces / 100m2 use
area. It is TTM’s experience that this rate is relatively consistent with centres of this nature.
Applying the surveyed parking demand rate to the proposed Coles expansion equates to a peak
parking demand of 341 parking spaces for the Noosa Fair Shopping Centre.
During a site review it was noted that the Noosa Fair Shopping Centre is used by customers
parking external to Noosa Fair (external parking supply). Conversely the Council car park
contained within zone 4 was found to include parking demand from customers within Noosa Fair
(external parking demand). Given the level of cross-utilisation of parking within the study area it is
not possible to get an entirely accurate description of car parking demand for the Noosa Fair
Shopping Centre alone.


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