2017-10-10 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                               10 OCTOBER 2017


RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Development Planner to the Planning & Environment
Committee Meeting dated 10 October 2017 regarding Application Nos. REC17/0021 for a
Preliminary Approval to Reconfigure a Lot (Boundary Realignment) and MCU16/0130 for a
Development Permit for Material Change of Use for Retail Business Type 6 – Hardware, Retail
Business Type 7 – Garden & Lifestyle Centre, Commercial Business Type 1 – Office, Industrial
Business Type 2 – Production, Alteration, Repackaging and Repairing, situated at 101 and 105
Eumundi Road, Noosaville and:
A.   Issue a Preliminary Approval to Reconfigure a Lot (Boundary Realignment) in accordance
     with the following conditions:
     PLANNING
     Preliminary Approval
     1.    Prior the issue of a Development Permit, the following documentation must be
           submitted to Council for review and approval:
           A plan of survey prepared by a suitably qualified person generally in accordance with
           Drawing No. 04, Revision B, Site Plan prepared by Epoch Architecture dated
           27/05/17.
B.   Refuse a Development Permit for Material Change of Use for Retail Business Type 6 –
     Hardware, Retail Business Type 7 – Garden & Lifestyle Centre, Commercial Business
     Type 1 – Office, Industrial Business Type 2 – Production, Alteration, Repackaging and
     Repairing for the following reasons:
     1.    The proposed development is inconsistent with The Noosa Plan’s zoning intent for
           the site for multiple housing forms which retain a high level of residential amenity,
           design quality and safety;
     2.    The proposed redevelopment of the site will result in an intensification and expansion
           of commercial and industrial uses in area which is intended to be developed for
           multiple housing and the site ought to be redeveloped consistent with the site’s
           residential zoning intent;
     3.    The proposed uses are more appropriately located in the nearby Business Centres
           and the Noosaville Industrial area; and
     4.    The application has not demonstrated sufficient grounds to justify the conflict with the
           planning scheme as the application has not demonstrated a significant need for the
           proposed uses. The site is more appropriately developed for multiple housing forms,
           consistent with Council’s recent Housing Needs Assessment which indicates a need
           for additional residential dwellings, particularly smaller dwelling types.


REPORT
1.   PROPOSAL
Reconfiguration of a Lot (Boundary Alteration)
The application seeks approval for a Preliminary Approval to Reconfigure a Lot (Boundary
Realignment). The reconfiguration relates to the realignment of the common boundary of 101 &
105 Eumundi Noosa Road and intends to create two rectangular shaped lots. The applicant
suggests the realignment removes the irregular boundary allowing for proposed Lot 101 to better
accommodate the proposed Material Change of Use while increasing the usability of Lot 105 to
accommodate a future residential use.
The applicant seeks a preliminary approval only on the basis that a properly prepared plan of
survey was unable to be provided at the time the application was submitted.


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