132003.220664.4 Application For A Minor Change To An Existing Development Approval For Material Change Of Use - Extension To An Existing Shop - At 12 Maple St Cooroy · Attachment 1 - 132003.220664.4 - Planning Officers Report

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING REPORT                                      12 August 2025


       o     significantly impact on traffic flow and the transport network, such as increasing traffic
             to the site; or
       o     introduce new impacts or increase the severity of known impacts; or
       o     remove an incentive or offset component that would have balanced a negative impact
             of the development; or
       o     impact on infrastructure provisions.
•    the change does not include prohibited development;
•    the change would not require the application to be referred to an additional referral agency or
     cause a referral agency to have regard to new matters prescribed by regulation;
•    where the original application was code assessable, the change would not cause the
     application to become impact assessable.
4.3. Statutory Instruments – Planning Scheme
The original application was lodged and assessed under the now superseded 1990 Planning
Scheme. Pursuant to s81 of the Planning Act 2017, Council must consider the planning scheme in
effect when the original development application was lodged, however Council may give weight to
Noosa Plan 2020 as the planning scheme in effect at the time of the minor change application
being lodged.
The following codes from Noosa Plan 2020 are applicable to this development:
•    District Centre Zone Code;
•    Cooroy Local Plan Code;
•    Business Activities Code;
•    Works Codes;
•    Flood Hazard Overlay Code;
•    Heritage and Character Overlay Code.
Under both the now superseded 1990 Planning Scheme and the current scheme in effect the
Noosa Plan 2020 (25 September 2020), the use of a Shop within the subject location remains
consistent with the zoning intent.
Condition 1 – Land Use
1.     Development undertaken in accordance with this approval must generally comply with the
       approved plan of development. The approved plan is numbered 02-004-1 prepared by TR &
       SL Roper Drafting and dated May 2006 and as may be amended by these conditions.
Applicant’s Request
The applicant submits:
Condition 1 would need to be changed to include the following list of approved plans, being:




The original development application for the shop was made in 2003 and assessed against the
1997 Strategic Plan.
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The relevant objectives state:
7.3.1 Encourage the consolidation of the Cooroy Business Centre.
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