REPS M2915 - Negotiated Decision Representations_200522

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20 May 2022
Job Ref: M2915

Noosa Council
By email: <[email protected]>

Att: Georgina Schramm – Development Planner
Re: Representations for a Negotiated Decision – Decision Notice for a Preliminary Approval for Material Change of Use (3
Multiple Dwellings and Office) and Operational Works (Roadworks, Drainage work, Landscaping, Stormwater and
Earthworks) at 245 David Low Way, Peregian Beach (Council ref: MCU21/0228 OPW21/0364).

Dear Georgina,

We refer to the recent preliminary approval for MCU/Reconfiguration issued over the above site. In accordance with s75
of the Planning Act 2016, we hereby make the following representations to Council the assessment manager about
changing certain matters within the development approval.

1.0 BACKGROUND

Council’s Delegated report notes that:

          The application has been found to generally comply with all applicable statutory instruments.

However, it recommended that a preliminary approval be issued as Council considered that the development does not
comply with one of the relevant assessment benchmarks, namely PO9 of the Dual Occupancy and Multiple Dwelling Code,
which states:

           PO9 Multiple dwellings can be accommodated and visited by a wide cross section of the community including
          people with limited mobility.

As a consequence, Council have issued a preliminary approval, Condition 2.1 of which essentially imposes acceptable
solution AO9 of the Dual Occupancy and Multiple Dwelling Code, which requires:
        a. One of the three (3) Multiple Dwelling units is to be:
                 i.    accessible by a safe, continuous and step free path of travel from the street entrance of the property or
                       from a car parking space;
                 ii.   has a step-free entrance door with opening width of at least 820 millimetres; and
                iii.   contains a bathroom on the entry level.


Compliance with this condition essentially requires the applicant to redesign the development to either: