MCU23/0090 Application For Material Change Of Use – Hotel (Extension To Existing Hotel) And DBW23/0073 - Building Work (Demolition) At 118 Poinciana Ave & 26 Diyan St, Tewantin

Brian Stockwell121:10

Much. Application to material change of used hotels, extension to existing hotels, Digby W23 0073, building demolition at one night. 118 Poinciana Avenue and 26 Diyan Street, Tewantin. And we have Naveen joining us as the assessment officer, but first we have a declaration from Councillor Wilson. Thank you.

All right. Afternoon, Councillors. This application that we're dealing with, two applications this afternoon. The first deals with the DDW, which relates to demolition of the premises as we know as the Royal Mail. The demolition comes to Council because it's building works assessable against the planning scheme because of the. Heritage character of the site. The second part of the application is a Material Change of Use for extension to the existing hotel. The demolition proposed on the site involves demolition of the liquor land premises out the rear front toilets on the corner, on the southeastern corner of the site, some internal renovations as well as some external renovations mainly to the poinciana frontage. The Material Change of Use component relates to the extension to the existing hotel in the form of two new beer gardens. There is the northern beer garden, which will go down Diyan Street and Blakesley street, and then there is a new southern beer garden, which is where the current toilets are and the. Smoking area is on Poinciana Avenue. The beer gardens have quite open pergolas and a landscaped area with paths, and there is a new bar there as well, a cake renovations to the internal range of internal renovations, plus the existing 13 units are going to be renovated. At present, they have a shared toilet. Each of those is going to be given their own ensuite. The renovations to the development and the extensions include, as I said, the new beer garden. We've required a two-metre landscape setback around there. Is also a new car parking area in the corner site of with an additional 30 spaces to be accessed through the existing car parking area. There was a note on one of the plans which has been picked up about a playground that was an error on one of the plans and I have actually confirmed with the applicant today that there is no playground proposed and they're fully aware that their acoustic report does not address a playground and so they know if they want to a put a playground in at a later date it'll require a change to the application. The proposal has been reviewed against the planning scheme and generally complies with the relevant assessment benchmarks. I do know we've included number of conditions relating to noise we had the proposal has been reviewed by our acoustic consultant who has given us a number of noise conditions relating to decibels including hours of operation and also hours relating to when waste management can occur on site. The beer garden also includes a new acoustic screen along the back of the beer garden and also then up the western side there is one door that faces the north which is only for emergency access only. The back of the beer garden also is covered to address noise as well. There is additional car parking provided as I said there's an additional 30 spaces on the corner lot. The development has also been reviewed against our planning scheme and we had an external consultant review the proposal initially because the original application was so short in terms of car parking. We're now five car parking spaces short. Our consultant, our external consultant has reviewed it and is happy with those that shortfall noting that we have a signed infrastructure agreement from the applicant agreeable to the payment of a contribution in lieu of provision of car parking for five spaces. We're going, a number of, in terms of that five space was shortfall, our consultant also was quite happy. There is significant community benefit from this proposal in terms of we've conditioned a public thoroughfare easement to go from Blakesley street, which will allow access to lot, to 96 poinciana, which is currently it's out, it's car parking, has to go through the Royal Mail. So the applicant to agree to a public thoroughfare easement, so that will enable them to always access their car parking. Also, it will enable pedestrians to continue to go through the site in that north-south orientation. There will be future are conditions about as I've said noise, acoustic, hours of operation as well as future operational works applications relating to landscaping and external works that are required for the site.