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00:00:00 Councillor Wegener: Everybody, welcome to the Planning and Environment Committee meeting, Tuesday, October 10th, 2023. I declare the meeting open. I would like to acknowledge that we are meeting on the traditional lands of the Kabi Kabi people, and I pay my respects to the elders past, present, and emerging. And I note that we have Councillor Stockwell and Mayor Stewart in the room, and we have Councillor Finzel attending by Zoom. Should we right now have the motion to accept that we can allow? Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Yes. Councillor Wegener: Okay. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: So I'm happy to move the standard motion that says we're happy for Councillor Finzel to attend virtually. I'll second it. Brian, would you like to speak to that? Councillor Wegener: No. Any questions? No. All in favour? It's been unanimous. And I'd also like to note that Councillor Lorentson is in the room. And we will be moving to, we're going to put item number one, zero emissions Noosa, back until Annie arrives.
1 ATTENDANCE & APOLOGIES ¶
00:01:00 And we'll go start with 5.2, application for material change of use, hardware and trade supplies at 178 Eumundi Noosa Noosa Road, Noosaville. Okay, we have Didine, Patrick and Richard speaking. Didine, would you walk us through this? Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning everyone. This is an application, MC22-0051, for a material change of use for hardware and trade supplies at 178 Mundy Noosaville Road, Noosaville. It's a proposed extension on the existing Bunnings site. If you're familiar with the existing Bunnings site, there is a rectangular parcel of land on the northern edge which is currently vegetated,
5.2 MCU22/0051 APPLICATION FOR MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE HARDWARE & TRADE SUPPLIES AT 178 EUMUNDI NOOSA ROAD, NOOSAVILLE ¶
00:02:00 and the applicant proposes to construct a... hardware and trade supply store on this portion of the site. The total floor area of over 1,000 square metres is proposed, over two levels, with car parking on the ground floor and the upper floor with the trade supplies. They, this is, the applicant has indicated this is to be primarily timber and trade supplies to service professional builders and trades people. They've indicated that it's a different target market than the existing Bunnings site. This is actually called Bunnings Trade, and the existing Bunnings Green Building is called Bunnings Warehouse. So, it's actually tailored to suit the trade pattern, the trade side of things. There is duplication in this area, so the trade people can buy, again, in bulk, I suppose, screws and nails and things like that,
00:03:00 minimising the need to go over to the existing Bunnings. It also has a different external appearance and branding as such. It also has a different external appearance and branding as such. It has a different colour scheme. There is a single elevator proposed within the building. Therefore, it's not as retail-friendly getting from the down to the upper level. Again, mainly providing sort of access for people with trailers. It also has a different website to the existing Bunnings Warehouse. They've given us a breakdown of Bunnings. The Bunnings website has a whole range, the existing Bunnings Warehouse has a whole range of items, from tools, garden, kitchen, bathroom, plumbing, paint, flooring, storage, cleaning, lighting, electrical, indoor living. Whereas Bunnings Trade, they've indicated, focuses on the construction industry. So, there's commercial standard power tools and equipment installation, timber and the like. So, they've also further indicated that their product lines have a different quality than perhaps some of the power tools and power lines you get over on the existing ones.
00:04:00 The applicant has also indicated they are maintaining the existing trade supplies in the existing Bunnings Warehouse, which is mainly that timber trade area on the northern section of the building. We've had a look at the original court approval as well. So, the existing Bunnings Warehouse was approved as a Retail Business Type 4 showroom, a Retail Business Type 6 hardware and a Retail Business Type 7 garden and lifestyle centre. So, there's a whole range of uses of proof of that existing Bunnings. There is no specific condition in there about percentage of different items they can sell, but there is definitely a plan which shows the trade timber in that northern portion of the site. And as I've said, the applicant isn't happy to us, they don't intend to remove that. So, the building generally complies with the planning scheme requirements,
00:05:00 but it doesn't comply in terms of the scheme, in terms of the existing, in terms of the scheme's requirements for a 10 metre height limit. The applicant proposes a building of 12 metres in height. We've questioned the applicant during the process about why they needed to go that high. They've indicated that the upper level is about 6 metres at its lowest point and that's needed for racking and stacking of their pallets and the sale of their products. There is also a, when you look at this site, it is actually lower from the vision port buildings on the northern side of the site and even the existing Bunnings driveway is higher. There's been substantial fill. So, this is actually low and it actually has a significant cross hall from the rear to the sort of, from the north eastern corner down to the south western corner.
00:06:00 There's at least a 6 metre fall across the site and it gets quite low at the front. So, it is actually lower than the surrounding sites. In the report on one of the pages, there is a copy of a plan on one of the pages, sorry. After... Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Figure 6, is that what we're looking for? Speaker 2: Yes, figure 6. The one above it, there are the two elevations there. So, one is the... Page 34. Page 34, yeah. Page 34, figure 6, there are the two elevations there. The top one shows the applicant's impression of the vision port buildings. This proposed building. So, it's above where it says Gateway Drive. That's the middle building, extended proposed development. And then there's the existing development of Bunnings. So, we've considered the outcomes, the proposals in terms of its impact on the street state.
00:07:00 And in this instance, in light of the proposal, the surrounding development, the setback, which is actually behind those existing vision port, we've supported that increase in height. So, basically the plan report recommends approval of this application subject to conditions. It was also mentioned about signage. Councillor Stockwell mentioned signage. We've also pulled out the old signage approval. There is a separate port approval for the signage, which is quite specific for the Bunnings. There are pylon signs and facial signs. Facial signs. Sorry. Facial signs. Wall signs. Wall signs. There are wall signs, a pylon sign. And it's quite specific. So, the applicant is aware that to change ... They've probably maxed out, sorry, their existing signage.
00:08:00 So, they're ... Deputy Mayor Stockwell: They're like about 10 times more than what we'd normally give you. Speaker 2: Yeah. I haven't looked. I must say, I haven't looked in to see whether the existing signage is compliant with this court approval. Therefore, if they want to put any additional signage, they would ... There are two options for them. One is to self-divide the site off, and then it would have to comply with our by-law. Our local law, sorry. Or they'd have to go back and change this existing court order and vary that, make that back to us to vary this approval. Speaker 4: And there is an existing subdivision that's been approved for the site. That's correct. So, it's a matter of then going through that plan and self-assessing that approved subdivision. Yeah. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: On that same scene, because we're assessing this development against standards that exist now, not as they did when the last one went through. It's part of one site as currently sits. We appear to be ... And to give you background, when we reviewed the sign laws, one of the
00:09:00 things we tried to stop was businesses using their whole of the building as a sign by using corporate logos and colours, which appears to be what is a continuation of here. And so, the court approved is because of the, no doubt, the reason we changed from the planning scheme using the sign laws, because it was a performance criteria rather than what we actually seem to achieve. It is significantly oversized, et cetera, et cetera, in my opinion. So, to me, I wonder why we're going down a path of approving an aesthetic that is over height and is inconsistent with the rules. Speaker 2: The applicant's plans indicate that the signage is not proposed as part of the supplementation on this building. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: But the colour scheme is part of the signage?
00:10:00 Speaker 2: The colour scheme, yes, that is. So it's a white and a green. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: And ours? Speaker 2: We could condition it that it's to be no corporate colours are to be used. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Well, it's not so much necessarily no corporate colours, it's not as bad as some of the corporate colours which are yellow and pink and stuff, but I've noticed that the acceptable outcome says no white. Speaker 2: Yep, we can condition that. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: And so we're sort of going, and I can see the logic in the high, but we just appear to be not necessarily trying to get the best outcome. That's my gut feeling, is that the best outcome from this side is to make the whole of the frontage of this lot look like we would like to see businesses in Noosa, and that's not making very large, standout signage that is, you know, you don't need two metre signs saying when you're open. Speaker 2: They're not proposing. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: No, no, but that's existing. Yeah, they've got a 7am, open 7am huge sign, you know, like part of what we have to do, in my opinion, we're assessing the site, and as you say, one of the levers will be, okay,
00:11:00 well, your site's got more than what you currently can have, so you can't have any signs on your Trade Centre, but I just wonder whether there's something we can do as part of this development application to really try and get them to lift the game in terms of the aesthetic to the street. Speaker 2: So you're talking about the existing? Deputy Mayor Stockwell: I'm talking about the development site. Speaker 2: The development site. As I said, they've indicated that, and that the signage for this new building is not part of it. We can easily condition, change the colour. I did, when we were looking at this to make it trade related, we were trying to really try and make sure it was differentiated to the existing Bunnings. So most of their existing trades are actually, their trade sites are actually, they're all this white and a cream colour. That's their colour. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Yeah, yeah. I know. It is a, you know, commercial enterprises will want the corporate colours over, spread
00:12:00 over there. Noosa, we don't. Speaker 3: No. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: We want what our scheme says, which is muted tones. Speaker 3: Yeah. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: And I think they can do better. Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah. Speaker 4: Are you seeking better in terms of colour scheme or in terms of doing the design? Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Well, it's hard, like, it is an industrial building. Yeah. You've mentioned that you were looking at some articulation in the front by awnings and things like that. It's hard, it's like that figure six you had, the top has. Speaker 2: The top, the top one is the old, was an old plan. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Okay. And the bottom one is where you've negotiated a bit of change. Speaker 2: Yeah. So that was what they initially applied. But that was the only one that had the three, the three buildings in the elevation. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 3: Yeah. Speaker 2: Whereas, and then, sorry, yes, I should have explained. And the biggest, the biggest six is the, is the new, is the final plan, the strict elevation.
00:13:00 Deputy Mayor Stockwell: And looking at the 12 metres. Speaker 2: Yes. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: It would appear that to be compliant, they'd be coming somewhere through the middle of the windows there to get the 10 metres. Speaker 2: Yes. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: So it's a substantial. Speaker 2: Yes, it's a substantial. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: It's a substantial relaxation and I can see why it's justified. Yes. For that relaxation, I thought we could have pushed a bit harder on aesthetic. Speaker 2: If you go and have a look at, you go back a couple. I think 34, is that 12 pages? It should be. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: I don't think, we don't have pages on our system anyway. Speaker 2: You don't have a figure? It should be figure three. And then you go, actually, figure four. Mayor Stewart: Yeah. Figure four. Yeah. Speaker 2: Figure four. Yeah. And the one, the one before that one. Yeah. The one before, so there's the typical long section. Yeah. Longitudinal section. Yeah. And you can see the undercropped, you can see the slope of the site.
00:14:00 Yeah. And, and the frontage. Yeah. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: And the height. Yeah, I can understand the reason for it. But it's also the highest, the highest elevation. Yes. Is the plainest. Yes. Mayor Stewart: Yes. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: It's the most stark, and it is a lot closer to the road, even though it's more setback and more than the minimum six, it's a lot closer to the road than the existing building, which. Speaker 2: The existing findings is setback. Yeah. Yeah. Substantially totally free. Yeah. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Yeah. That's my thinking. Anyway. Has anyone requested this one go to general? Mayor Stewart: No. No. No. No. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: All the others ask questions if they don't have any. Councillor Wegener: So from the street, it will be substantial from the street side. You were looking at the first story which is the car park and then above that two stories
00:15:00 above that. Speaker 2: That's correct. Yes. So there will be the car parking level and one above, yes. One above. One above, sorry. Yes, one above. It's only two stories. Councillor Wegener: So the 12 meter starts at the car park level. Yes. Speaker 2: Yes. At the ground floor level. Yes. So I think the internal dimension of the greenhouse floor is about six. It's about six for the upper level, it's about six on the upper level and then it does go up. They put a pitch roof on. They don't have to put a pitch roof on but it's part of our trying to get it to make it a little bit more attractive. They did put a pitch roof on. It is only three degree but they did put the pitch roof on. Mayor Stewart: Is there any reason not to approve this? Speaker 2: Well, I suppose it's the height. Yes. The non-compliance with the height. So we have discussed it with them at length. Speaker 1: Yes. Speaker 2: It was brought up in the information request.
00:16:00 Yes. And again, it was really the impact of the adjoining industrial building. Speaker 4: So when you look at it from the street, the building to the left has got a quite large retaining wall that is on the street . It might be two, two and a half feet, maybe in height. And then there's a building above that. And what basis that street is, roll the doors. So aesthetically, it's quite ugly. That's right. That's right. That's right. I think this building is certainly an improvement on what is presented as an open property. And there's also an opportunity to provide some landscaping in front of this building that doesn't occur on average on the building. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: So if we look at figure seven, can we bring up figure seven? Speaker 2: Yes. Speaker 4: Yes. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Can we bring up figure seven? Because there's obviously good opportunity to screen it. Speaker 2: Yes. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Is there any intent to retain any of the existing ventures?
00:17:00 No. Is that vegetation all on their property or is it some on the road reserve? Speaker 2: Some is on the road reserve, but then you put the required footpath into your driveway and it's just . Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Have they got a plan that shows where the centre of each tree is? Speaker 2: No. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: So I'm going to move it to general and I'd ask for that information to be provided to general. No. I'll leave it to general. Yes. If I could just have a look at it. I think we've got a plan, either before or at the meeting, a plan that actually marks where all the vegetation is compared to... Speaker 2: Are we across the frontage? Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Across the frontage, both on their property and on the footpath. Speaker 4: Did you want further report or...? Deputy Mayor Stockwell: No, just for further information. Councillor Wegener: Before we move that, we should ask Councillor Lorentson to come forward.
00:18:00 Speaker 3: Just in terms of the impact assessment, the traffic impact assessment is undertaken by the applicant and no issues there in terms of potential traffic flows given the location in an industrial precinct. Speaker 2: Our public consultant also reviewed that traffic flow in the area. He initially was concerned about the cross... That's scary. Yes. Coming through and crossing. And in terms of their assessment, no, it all works. It does work. And even coming out, in terms of the peak times, they're anticipating that the trades will have an earlier peak than the Bunnings Warehouse peak. So they should be out of there before it will... I suppose it's up there with the Bunnings Warehouse site.
00:19:00 Yes. So, yes, it is supposed to all... They've indicated... Our consultant has indicated all the functions. Thank you. Councillor Wegener: And Councillor Finzel. Sorry. I actually didn't see you. Any questions? Councillor Finzel: Yes. Thank you, Mr Chair. Through the Chair, I just have a question with regarding the height. If they were to remove the pitch, does that... How significant is the height reduction? Speaker 2: It's not significant, Karen. Maybe half a metre. Councillor Finzel: OK. Thank you. Councillor Wegener: Well, anything else? Councillor Stockwell has moved. I'll second. To move this to the General. All in favour? Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Anonymous? If there's a large body of work to locate those trees, the easiest thing would be for me to go and walk it. So, just let me know if there's nothing on file.
00:20:00 And I'll get back to you. I'll go and measure them up. Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't... I don't remember seeing anything. Yeah. So, you still want me to... Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Well, if you've got the information. But if not, I'll... Yeah. Councillor Wegener: I'll do a foot in campus traffic now. OK. Nadeed. The CEO General. Speaker 2: OK. Thank you. Councillor Wegener: Thank you very much. Thank you, Patrick. Actually, I won't see your... I will not be at the General Meeting. Speaker 3: Do you want to go next to... Yep. Councillor Wegener: Zenn. Zenn. So, let's go to 5.1. Zero Emissions Noosa, Zenn Incorporated Grant Funding Agreement. And we have the great Annie Nolan. Speaker 1: Oh, yes. That was a follow-up. Thanks for my lightness. Mayor Stewart: Thanks for my help. Do you have the ledger? Deputy Mayor Stockwell: No, she'd be here earlier. Speaker 1: I wish I could have just plugged it in the charger at the moment. Alas, it was taken away.
5.1 ZERO EMISSIONS NOOSA (ZEN) Inc. GRANT FUNDING AGREEMENT ¶
00:21:00 All right. So, councillors, before you this morning is the report about the ending for the partnership with Zero Emissions Noosa Inc. Referred to as ZE. And this has mostly been requested authorised to actually enter into the partnership. And, you know, there's a lot of work to be done. And we're making changes. And I just wanted to note also that there was a funding approved in the 23-24 budget for this and that funding allowance to actually really put on board a co-ordinator so that they can really work through their projects and really focus on what they do best, which is really to help Noosa get to net zero emissions. I think there's a lot of work to be done. I think you're all very well aware of the incredible work that ZE does over a wide variety of projects for this community to help reduce its emissions, help reduce its electricity
00:22:00 consumption, and that helps reduce costs to residents as well. So their work is very, very professional. They do it on very much a science-based process of actually determining their projects. And they also have been very diligent in, one, getting their deductible gift status as well. And they also look for funding in other mediums other than council funding as well. So what this funding will enable them to do is to actually put on a co-ordinator that will assist them in all the work that's done behind the scenes, particularly in grant funding, in actually allocating and administering. All the projects that they do right across the plethora of things that they do, particularly around stationary energy, which is around electricity consumption deductions.
00:23:00 And as you know, ZE has been very, very pivotal in helping council to get the grant funding for the community battery as well. They provide a lot of education through their website, through their newsletters. They're very, very focused in getting their message across. They're very, very focused in getting their message out by a newsletter today. And by having this funding for a co-ordinator, this will really help them to promote that even wider and even broader. So that's pretty much what you've got in front of you and the draft agreement that has been drafted, which actually goes through the requirements of ZE in terms of their administration requirements, in terms of their reporting requirements. They are required to put together an annual operational plan. Which they do anyway. And that actually outlines all the projects, the reasoning behind those projects, and the return on investment for those projects as well.
00:24:00 So that's what the report is about. Councillor Wegener: But my first gestalt is, I'm so happy that they're going to hire somebody because that person that takes that job will have such a qualification, such a broad amount of learning in this new field. That's emerging. And so hopefully they'll stick around and help us in the further, but just having that sort of education and in that position creates the knowledge in somebody that will be enormously beneficial on an ongoing basis for a long time. So that's just another aspect of how important this funding is. Any questions? Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Go ahead. Yeah, I'm just, you mentioned the word co-ordinator a few times, which I think is the core of what makes groups like this go to the next level. And I'm just checking through the actual wording of the agreement how that's reflected, because you also mentioned administration and the time we were looking at this in the budget
00:25:00 we said is it better to have this person focused on a little bit of administration, a little bit of coordination, or is it better to actually focus it more on the coordination of programs? Is that, was that negotiated through or is there scope within the agreement that each year, if we happen to get, for example, a single coordinator or a single admin person working across a number of community groups, that this agreement can be flexible enough to cater for that? Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. It is a three-year agreement, but it is subject to budget requirements every year. And of course, that's always open to appreciation as well. Councillor Wegener: Would this be an employee or a contractor, do you feel? Or is that? Is that important? Is that? Is that? Speaker 1: That would be for them to determine what their most appropriate employment arrangements are. Councillor Wegener: Councillor Finzel, do you have any questions?
00:26:00 Councillor Finzel: At this stage, Mr Chair, I don't have any questions. The report is very comprehensive. It lists the requirements of the agreement. I think it's pretty much covered. I guess I could just take this opportunity to acknowledge the work that's been done by ZEN does and the great contribution. We really value what they bring to the Shire, and they work closely with Council to meet targets and deliver outcomes. So, yeah, we're just grateful that ZEN Inc. has put forward this application, and they're prepared to look at an agreement with us to continue working for us into the future. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: This one was requested to go to General 2 by Councillor. Councillor Wegener: Yeah, that's right. Thank you. Councillor Lorentson, please. Hi, Annie. Speaker 3: I don't know whether this is something that should be put in the agreement, but a conflict of interest clause where there's a requirement of the disclosure if there's any action received
00:27:00 or potential conflict of interest. So, I note that 12.3 references relationships of parties, but it doesn't actually articulate conflict of interest. So, just something that I'll throw to you for consideration. Yeah, thank you for that. Speaker 1: In those recommendations, it does actually say that we can actually tweak some of those things to actually make those changes, and it will actually be signed by the Director. So, before the execution of that, we can actually make those changes to make that much more stronger. Great. Speaker 3: And in terms of what the agreement gave, how does this differ, or is it similar to the partnership agreement? Speaker 1: It's very similar to the NBRF. We looked at that as a model and updated that, because that's a few years old now, and made
00:28:00 it much more relevant to the partnership that we actually have with ZEE. So, it has actually been through those system groups. Thank you. Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you. Councillor Wegener: Thank you. Okay. Well, we've been asked to move it, so ... Do you have the significance of the issue? Yes, I'll move it. I'll second that. It goes to the general committee. Okay, I'd like to ... Councillor Finzel: I'm happy to second that. Councillor Wegener: Okay, before we both ... I just would like to speak to the motion. And once again, the gift of Zero Emissions Noosa to the Noosa community, and even to The world community is substantial in how incredibly successful they've been and so influential and the professionalism that they have is worth something to study, I think, you know, I would suspect that all organizations who want to change the world, Zen Inc. would be a very good one to study right from the get go to see how they did it, how their methods are, what they did, because it is phenomenal and of course you have Ann Kennedy and Vivian Gryffindor to monolith in our community.
00:29:00 Thank you for the incredible work, Annie, and anybody else like to speak to the motion? Okay, put it to the vote, all in favor, Karen, Karen, we can see Karen, yes, yep, there we go, thanks Annie, thank you, we have three reports that are confidential, the appeals, okay, so we, they're not, I think if we wish to discuss them, I think they can, they can discuss them, okay, okay, Patrick's at the table, 5.3, planning and environment, court appeal, D130 of 2023, application to reconfigure a lot into, one into two lots at 39,
5.3 PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COURT APPEAL NO. D130 OF 2023 – APPLICATION TO RECONFIGURE A LOT (1 INTO 2 LOTS) AT 39-41 PICTURE POINT CRESCENT, NOOSA HEADS ¶
00:30:00 to 41 Picture Point, Crescent, Noosa Heads. Speaker 4: Yes, you may recall this was a recent decision to refuse the application where it was considered that it, you know, the lot format that wasn't consistent with the character of the area or the intended development that we, the scheme seeks to occur on the site. Recently, this has been a bill and as further report, it's recommended that it's served with the council's independent appeal. Councillor Wegener: I'm happy to move that way, I'll second it. Council Finzel, would you like to speak to the motion, the report of the motion? Councillor Finzel: I don't have anything to say regarding the appeal. I'm just wondering, the report has also noted that
00:31:00 there's, they can't tell us really advice one way or the other how this will go. I'm just, yeah, just wondering about estimated costs, what this is going to cost us to go to court. Yeah, do we have any idea? Speaker 4: We don't have prospects at this stage. It's quite premature, Karen, for that to occur. And then in terms of court costs, it's also difficult to assess at this point without knowing what's going to, I suppose, how this will play out and the kind of experts that are required to be involved in the amount of time that would be required for it to be heard in court. Speaker 3: And we'll have our regular case management working group meetings to discuss an update around prospects and various issues as that progresses. Councillor Wegener: Okay. Thank you. Councillor Orton. Speaker 3: Cost of the banking bill is my question, so thank you.
00:32:00 Councillor Wegener: Okay, so we've, the recommendation's been moved. Speaker 3: Can you second it for me? Councillor Wegener: I seconded it, yeah. So all in favour? Yes. And Karen, unanimous? Councillor Finzel: Yes. Councillor Wegener: Thank you. We have report 5.4, Planning and Environment Court Appeal D153 of 2023, Application for Material Change of Use, Relocatable Home Park, Community and Affordable Housing, 32 Dwellings at 55 and 70 Carpenters Road, Cooroy. And we have Patrick and Richard, again, would you walk us through it? Speaker 4: Yeah, again, a recent decision by Council, to refuse the application for the relocatable home park. Again, on a range of issues around the character of the area. Whilst we did acknowledge the merits of the potential use, but the particular location of the site, some of the constraints on the site,
5.4 PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COURT APPEAL NO. D153 OF 2023 – APPLICATION FOR MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE – RELOCATABLE HOME PARK (COMMUNITY AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING – 32 DWELLINGS) AT 55 AND 70 CARPENTERS RD COOROY ¶
00:33:00 we considered that this was not servable. Again, we considered that it's in order of the Council to defend the appeal. Again, quite early in the process to be able to determine the cost. Councillor Wegener: Thank you, Patrick. Any questions? And Councillor Finzel, any questions? Councillor Finzel: No, Mr Chair, no questions. Councillor Wegener: Happy to move, as recommended. Second. Okay, before we vote, Councillor Lorentson, any questions? No, thank you. Okay. If it's so moved, all in favour? Councillor Finzel? Councillor Finzel: Yes. Councillor Wegener: Okay. Thank you very much. We're off to . Councillor Finzel: Thank you. 5.5. Councillor Wegener: Planning and Environment Court Appeal D133 of 2013, application for building works for a dwelling house at 60 Seaview Terrace, Sunshine Beach. Again, Patrick. Speaker 4: So this was, as you say, for a dwelling at 60 Seaview Terrace, Sunshine Beach.
5.5 PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COURT APPEAL NO. D133 OF 2023 – APPLICATION FOR BUILDING WORKS FOR A DWELLING HOUSE AT 60 SEAVIEW TCE, SUNSHINE BEACH ¶
00:34:00 That was refused due to our concerns with the building's height, site cover, setbacks, and overlooking associated with the rooftop terrace. Again, this was not considered in order to look in the report. Thank you. Councillor Wegener: Thank you. Any questions? Councillor Finzel, any questions? Councillor Finzel: No questions from me at this stage. Thank you, Mr Chair. Councillor Wegener: Councillor Lorentson? Okay. So is there a recommendation? I'll second. Seconded by the Mayor. Speaker 3: Okay. Councillor Wegener: Okay. I guess we're ready? Councillor Finzel: Yeah. Councillor Wegener: Okay. Good to vote. All in favor? Councillor Finzel: Sure. Yes. Councillor Wegener: Yes. It's unanimous. Okay. Councillor Wegener: We have 6.1.
00:35:00 Planning applications decided by delegated authority, August 2023. And we have... Before we have... Before we ask Patrick, we go through the conflicts of interest. Thank you. Okay. Mayor Stewart: Thank you, Councillor Wegener. I, Councillor Stewart, inform the meeting that I have a declarable conflict of interest in this matter in relation to number 28OPW23-0077 in the list of applications in the report, as I have a close personal or friendship with Jane Margaret Blake. As a result of my conflict of interest, I'll now leave the meeting room. All the matter is considered and voted on. Thanks. Thank you. Councillor Wegener: Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Any other conflicts of interest? Councillor Finzel: No, Mr. Chair. Councillor Wegener: Okay. Patrick, can we walk through each and every one of them? Speaker 4: As you're aware, this is the monthly report which provides a summation of those decisions
6 REPORTS FOR NOTING BY THE COMMITTEE ¶
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6.1 PLANNING APPLICATIONS DECIDED BY DELEGATED AUTHORITY AUGUST 2023 ¶
00:36:00 that were made under delegation by officers. What we've done in the report is just added in the table this month, which will continue to be going forward, just to give a little bit of detail. We've also broken it down into those that have been determined under delegation and those that were determined by council. What this shows is that of the applications that were decided in August, 97 of those were approved, all of those being under delegation, and that there was one application that was refused, which is a matter that was refused by council, which, from memory, was the application for the relocation. It was the application for the relocation behind Patrick in compliance with the account in Detroit. And again, the report shows the sort of the broad spectrum of applications that the officers assessed, ranging from change applications, material change abuse applications, issuing exemption certificates, to operational works as well.
00:37:00 Councillor Wegener: Well, thank you. I love the new improvement here, the chart. It's fantastic. Okay. Thanks, Tom. Any questions? Questions, Councillor Finzel? Brian? Councillor Finzel: There is no questions from me, Mr Chair. Thank you. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: I have one out of interest. I'll just grab it back up. One of the delegated authorities was about a secondary dwelling within a riparian corridor. And in those sort of cases, you don't have to know that specific one. Do we tend to be a little bit flexible in that, like, I'm presumably coming up against the 100 metre buffer, and there's a small gap? There's a small encroachment, and we tend to approve those? Is that...? Speaker 4: We've got sites where the entire site is covered by a riparian buffer. And that could be associated with change in mapping, with the new scanning. And then what you'll find is that there's probably a cluster of buildings within that riparian buffer, ideally as far situated, as far as possible away from waterways.
00:38:00 And then the secondary dwelling would be in close proximity of those existing buildings on the site. Speaker 3: Okay. Councillor Wegener: I have a question for number 13. The building works accessible against planning scheme code for 134 Farrells Road, Cooroy. That's not the new site there, the Woolley site, is it? No. That's just a private... Speaker 4: That's correct. Okay, good. Councillor Wegener: Any other questions? Councillor Lorentson, any questions? No. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Brian, you're still... Oh, no. It's okay. Yeah. Thank you. Councillor Wegener: And then the extension to the Sunshine Shop is number 25. We... Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Did we... Did we talk about that? Speaker 4: Yeah. Councillor Wegener: Yeah. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: We do talk about that. This is the old butcher shop, isn't it? Speaker 4: That's right. It was an extension to the butcher shop. It was... And it was going into the... The one way, essentially.
00:39:00 This one went into the next tenancy. Councillor Wegener: Yeah. Okay. Very good. I feel we should put it to a vote. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Oh, actually, we need to move it first. I think Councillor Finzel should move it just to have... Councillor Finzel: I'm happy to move the recommendation. Councillor Wegener: I'll second it. Yeah. Anybody to speak to the motion? No. All in favour? Councillor Finzel: No, thank you. Yes. In favour. In favour. Councillor Wegener: Well, that's it. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Thank you. Thank you very much. We'll... Oh, should she close it? She'd be back in when she closes? Should I be back in? Okay. Speaker 3: . Councillor Wegener: There's no... Yeah. There's no confidential motions. There's no... What else did we mention? We'll close the meeting when the Mayor comes back into the room. Okay. Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
8 MEETING CLOSURE ¶
00:40:00 Thank you. Okay. Councillor Wegener: We note that Mayor Stewart has re-entered the room. We'd like to close the meeting at 10, 14, 10, 10, 11. 10 o'clock fast. 10, 11. Thank you very much all for coming today. Mayor Stewart: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councillor Wegener: Thank you, Mr. Chair.