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1. Antipodes Court is a quiet street of families, and is not congruent with short term accomodation. Given the dearth of available rental properties in Noosa Shire this would be much better served as a permanent rental, having a positive impact on the use of the amenity by the families in the area.

2. This is a completely inappropriate application. Castaways Beach is a residential area. Short stay accommodation sees people in holiday mode wanting to party until late at night or during the day. Short stay accommodation threatens our sense of community. There is also insufficient parking to support this application. Please prevent a proliferation of short term accommodation in our community - please, please, please!

3. I personally have experienced being on the wrong side of the Noosa Shires accommodation housing and rental market. During a period where I sold my home in The Noosa Shire believing I would replace it fairly quickly, but I was forced into the rental market. One could say my plan did not go to plan. This was mainly due to the diabolical increased prices of housing in the area over a very short time and the fierce competition from the great southern migration influx and this was on top of the grab for investment properties for short term accommodation which was starting to sting locals hard. As I experienced the difficulties of finding a home within my budget, I was fighting the hordes also looking for permanent rental properties. Under normal circumstances in this situation a 6 month rental, in my local shire should have been hassle free, if it weren’t for all the greed, driving force and lenience in favour of STAs in our region. I had a horrific time finding a rental. At first I stayed with family and friends, I took over a unit while a friend went away for Christmas, shared a removable home with someone’s teenager, I even shared a house with strangers and had a few uncomfortable nights in between. After 5 months of searching I finally found a unit to purchase in the local area. I am now just about to start on the renovations needed in order to move in. I never believed I would experience housing difficulties in my lifetime. What this experience did teach me was there is a who lot of people out there who have lived in this region for a long time and are being forced out of the market in both buying and rentals. And there are heap of other owner occupiers from all walks of life who have homes that they have paid good money for, and now watching their owner occupier investment being sabotaged by STAs. Their lifestyle, their amenity and the breaking down communities is a result of the demands for STAs and to many of us the disgust of the approvals being given. This has to stop. I say no to More STAs and council needs to start looking after their constituents, the people who actually live in the town permanently, those people who are already here, some of whom voted this council in, and more who voted against more STAs especially in low density, and residential communities. Noosa is MORE than a cheapened tourist town, we must not loose what those before us tried to hard to protect. As permanent residents many seemed to have lost their lifestyle and now we are all paying for the extra infrastructure required to maintain the increases and changes, that many of us don’t want. None of this makes sense and it certainly is not FAIR. Say no to STA’s in residential streets.

4. The beauty of Castaways is its ambience. There are no shops, no units.,nothing to attract anyone other than residents. That’s its appeal and why I chose it as home for me and my family. Honour it.

5. This is the ideal opportunity for Nøosa Council to preserve a neighbourhood rather than desecrate it with the constant, nerve-fraying uncertainty of a “stand alone” STL.
   So please don’t let this property sneak in , in an area which prides itself on its residential amenity.
   No shops, units: just residents who chose this area to pour their lifetime savings in to raise their families and enjoy their short hours outside of working , and often contributing to the community as helpers/supporters in volunteer roles.
   This is NO place for a tourist business: you may as well line up a firing cannon now aimed directly at the permanent residents and their future health and well being.
   Please stop this one, and any other STL applications which may follow. Let this one in and then council will feel the compulsion to let more in: and goodbye neighbourhood. This is the ideal opportunity for Council to act as they say: STL is not consistent with low density: and don’t so many of us know this painful truth.
   Home-hosted STL is not the same as opening the floodgates to absentee STL owners and their managers.

6. This is a locals, residential area in a low density family home area. Council needs to put residents and neighbours & their right to peaceful enjoyment of their own homes before the commercial business of running Airbnb (by often absentee investor owners). This is not an appropriate area to run a airbnb business, there are sufficient holiday and tourist accommodation in already designated & appropriately regulated tourist accom and holiday resorts. Do not take yet another family home out of the long term rental pool, locals are struggling to find homes to live in thanks to the proliferation of new Airbnbs that council has allowed to flourish over the past few years. It needs to stop, Council needs to support locals & neighbours.

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