BOB HANSEN Topic: Noosa Short Stay Letting Licence

Don't I just use all the pages?

It's a new world we're operating in. Don't worry. The very last slide of this I give my accreditations. I graduated as a quantitative geneticist, started work as a poultry breeder, did a graduate diploma in management, went into business management. From then on, I've agri-consultant, mainly for banks. I help banks recover assets and agri-usiness people. I'm considered an industry expert in intensive and that addition to that, we decided to retire in Noosa and we bought management rights in Noosa, Sunshine Beach. I couldn't say I did a very good job of retiring. I've probably taken on more work than when I was fully employed. I've put together a presentation of about twelve slides. We only tend to talk to six or seven. The reason being, I'm trying to keep it to like eight or nine minutes and then you can ask me questions if you'd like. So if we flick to on to four. Slide three. Cathy. So this is just the basic outline of what I'm going to talk to. I mean, basically, what I'm trying to figure out is why we'll meet at Sunshine Beach and others certainly in our area are exempted, like Hastings Street and Noosa Lakes. So if you now flick on to the next one. So the other ones, this is straight off your website, the other ones are the regions that are exempted, but why aren't Noosa built and Sunshine Beach? In Sunshine Beach definitely we have very similar dynamics Australia. What's happening on Hastings Street. One of our owners is a judge, and he said to me, "Well Bob, there's more noise that comes from the surf club than there is from any noise from any owners." So, and that is the reason I'm actually making the presentation, because he that pushed me to do this. If you go on to the next one, we are in a multi-use, high-use area, we're in the red zone, you can see that the surf club is just down here, and this is Duke Street. Keep going, please. In our DA approval, we're approved to have 20 car parks with 5 off-site for off-street parking. Which, when the DA was done, we were approved. And there was to be no detrimental effect upon the neighbourhood or regional creation of excessive noise. This Council approved that. So, the question to you is. Why don't we have an exemption like everybody else. When I've been to your meetings that your staff have asked me to come to in the past, they say there are two reasons that you're bringing in these licenses. One is noise from residents, or other nuisance like rubbish, car parking, and the second one is you're trying to get short-term living out of residential areas. Various. So I don't understand how this license actually achieves what you're wanting to do. And if, it does, why aren't we exempted? Like, Hastings Street or Noosa Lakes. Okay, go to the next slide please, Cathy. Cathy? Here our bylaws. I just took an extract out and this is the ones for our noise. So no owners to have a party on the property. We don't allow noise from 10am to 8pm. There's no excessive noise from radio, TV, piano, no child crying. Guests who leave after 11 have to leave quietly. No extra cars. Now, it in Noosa, sorry, in La Mer, the caretaker has the authority to police those matters. Now, of course, to do a breach, the body corporate committee must do a breach, but the caretaker is on site. We'll go to the next slide, please, Cathy. So, my son is the manager. Leah is our office manager. That's my company, and we all have an RE licence. We're all fully licensed. Now, that's not actually a requirement under the act. Is only the person that is the nominee manager has to have a RE licence, but I felt it was best practice that we did that, the reason being is that I won't owe my staff training. Next slide. Complaints from our parliament are zero, that I know of. I don't know if there's any issue of complaints from our parliament. So, one of the points made in the circular put out by the Noosa Shire a couple of weeks ago was that we were going to make a level playing field. Well, how can there be more level when we've already got zero? There are resorts with on-site management that have issues with complaints, but I don't know who they are. I mean, at the meeting that you held here in February, I actually asked the question, how many complaints came from resorts with on-site management? There was a lot of shuffling of papers, and somebody sort of muttered something like five, and said, how many are in total? 1,300. Is that correct? Do we know how many complaints have come from on-site management results? Awesome

What are the issues being generated from on-site management of the doors? We can find that out for you. Yes, thank you. Next slide. At La Mer. Basically all our apartments were built for short-term living. They're 112 square metres. They've all got minimal storage capacity. They're owned by one car capacity. We do have two units where some owners stay there for and then let out their units still on a short-term letting basis. So at La Mer we're 100% short-term letting. So next slide, and that's the end. That's my, uh. Qualifications. The questions, the I have for you then is why can't we have an exemption and why a pacing strip? That's the main question. So I'll take any questions from you.

Okay. A couple of weeks ago, and I didn't put this in my presentation, a couple of weeks ago you used to send out a what do call a short stay letting or home hosted accommodation local law annual renewal and fees. No. In it I find that there are a number of issues that I believe are incorrect. Significantly incorrect. Firstly it implies that on Hastings Street, Noosa Lakes and a number of these other ones that are listed on page two of that document that there are no permanent residents. But we know there are permanent residents in there. The very last sentence of that document. Says that this will make a level playing field. Well, it's made an ill-level playing field. It's actually discriminatory. If you have a management right or a Noosa or lakes or one of the other presented exempted facilities, you don't actually have to apply for a licence. The effect of actually having a one-year licence means that, in reality, caretaker our. Agreements which by law are up to 25 years are effectively one year. So you've made, winners and losers in the Noosa resort. I have a paper copy of that and I did put it onto a stick so I'm happy to give you a USB stick. And that's my presentation.