3.0 Planning Report

5 Local Government Assessment
5.1 Noosa Plan 2020
The Noosa Plan 2020 – Amendment 1 came into effect on the 25th of September 2020 and supersedes the Noosa Plan

2020 which was gazetted and came into effect on 31 July 2020.


The site is within the Medium Impact Industry Zone, Precinct 7 – Venture Drive Enterprise Precinct.


5.2 Defined Use
The applicant proposes development of the site for Low Impact Industry, defined as:


Low impact industry means the use of premises for an industrial activity—


 1.       that is the manufacturing, producing, processing, repairing, altering, recycling, storing, distributing, transferring or
          treating of products; and
 2.       that a local planning instrument applying to the premises states is a low impact industry; and
 3.       that complies with any thresholds for the activity stated in a local planning instrument applying to the
          premises, including, for example, thresholds relating to the number of products manufactured or the level
          of emissions produced by the activity.


The development is being undertaken speculatively, however gauged from initial interest has implied future business
uses would fit within the thresholds of Low Impact Industry as listed in Schedule 1 of the Noosa Plan 2020.

5.3 Category of Assessment
Table 5.5.10.1 – Venture Drive Enterprise Precinct identifies Low Impact Industry requires Code Assessment against

the following assessment benchmarks (codes):


            Noosaville Local Plan Code;

            Medium Impact Industry Zone Code;

            Industry Activities Code; and

            Works codes


5.4 Public Notification
The application proposes assessable development which requires Code Assessment and therefore does not require

public notification pursuant to Section 53 of the Planning Act 2016 and Part 4 of the Development Assessment Rules.




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