MCU22/0118 – DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION FOR A MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE – SHORT-TERM ACCOMMODATION AT 94 & 142 NOOSA DR, NOOSA HEADS · Report

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING                                             7 NOVEMBER 2023


             (e) The built form of the proposed development is unacceptable, being slightly over
             height in metres in the Tourist Accommodation zone and substantially over height in
             metres and storeys in the Environmental Management and Conservation zone.


           In respect of the above, the proposed development is inconsistent with the following
           provisions of Noosa Plan 2020:
             (i)     Strategic Framework – 3.2.2, 3.2.5, 3.3.1(b) and 3.3.4(b)(p);
             (ii) Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands Overlay Code – 8.2.2.2(2)(a), (b), (c), (d),
             (e), (f), (g), (h) and (i) Table 8.2.23 PO1, PO3, PO6 and PO11;
             (iii)    Water Quality and Drainage Code – 9.4.82(2)(a) and (b) and Table 9.4.8.3 PO6;
             (iv) Noosa Heads Local Plan Code – Overall Outcomes (2)(b)(d)(e) and (ad) and Table
             7.2.5.3 PO4, PO5, PO6 and PO26;
             (v) Environmental Management and Conservation Zone Code – Overall Outcomes
             (2)(a) and (b), Table 6.7.1.3 PO1, PO5, PO7, PO8, PO9, PO11 and PO13;
             (vi) Tourist Accommodation Zone Code - Table 6.3.4.3 PO9 and PO10.


      4. When read as a whole, the South East Queensland Regional Plan 2017 (SEQRP) does
      not lend support to the proposed use of the land, as:
             4.1. the SEQRP sets a long term, 50-year vision, establishing aspirations for the region
             up to 2067. Given this, the timing and sequencing of urban development occurring within
             the Urban Footprint is a finer grained detail, the planning for which is implemented
             through local government planning schemes;
             4.2. the designation of land as being within the Urban Footprint does not imply that all
             that land with that designation can be developed for urban purposes; and
             4.3. when assessed against Noosa Plan 2020, the proposed development is not
             suitable for urban development.


      5.    The following relevant matters support refusal:
             5.1. The proposed development will involve an unacceptable loss of vegetation in a
             locality which is an ecologically important and environmentally sensitive and serves as
             an important ecological linkage,
             5.2. There is no planning, economic or community need for the proposed development
             on the subject land.
             5.3. Approval of the proposed development would not be in the public interest as
             reflected in the provisions of Noosa Plan 2020 referred to in these reasons for refusal.


B.   Note the report is provided in accordance with Section 63(5) of the Planning Act 2016.