19 Captains Ct Sunrise Beach QLD 4567

No need for any more of these community destroyers. This application should be denied. Neighbourhood? What neighbourhood?

This family home is a in local, residential area in a low density family home area, close to the schools. Sunrise Beach is not a tourist location so Council needs to put permanent 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 already sufficient holiday and tourist accommodation in already designated & appropriately regulated tourist accom and holiday resorts in Noosa. Do not take yet another family home out of the long term rental pool, locals are struggling to find family 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 and protect family homes in the family area of Sunrise Beach from becoming commercial business.

This area was and is designed for permanent residents , not STA! It is also on top of a valley where noise travels all over this area , I know this as I live in the next street ! It’s close to schools and all other amenity designed and built for permanent residents ! Not STA ! STA will destroy this !

Seriously Noosa Council, this is in a residential area. Not only is it inappropriate for an SSL in this area due to the residents but it will affect the surrounding valley from the noise that there always is from these homes as SSL's. The area is not a tourist zone, has no extra parking, will destroy the lives of those residents nearby. Please I implore you do not allow this.

Please Noosa Council, STA businesses should not be allowed to decimate the Sunrise Beach community. Residential houses are to live in. They are not hotels.
Turning this family home into a short stay hotel will remove yet another home from the rental pool for people desperately trying to find somewhere to live as well as severely disrupt the residential amenity of the neighbours - insufficient parking, overflowing rubbish bins and unacceptable noise levels undermine the community and pose a health & safety risk. The adjacent neighbours want to know who is living over the fence. They do not want to be disturbed by the relentless turnaround of holiday makers all year round & the relentless service people supporting the business - leaf blowers, cleaners, pool cleaners, etc etc.. We don't need commercial businesses encroaching on the residential zoned areas.
This family home is needed to support workers. Children could attend nearby schools. Residents could be involved with local community groups like the Sunshine Beach Surf Club or the numerous sporting clubs nearby. The town planning & infrastructure invested in this community by the ratepayers should be available for residents. Our town needs residents to function.
Our community should be the priority for the council, not supporting those who wish to compromise our community for their own ends.

STA is ruining the sense of community in our area, which is so important for the wellbeing of all permanent residents in this area.
No 19 Captains crt, is a big house and over looks the homes surrounding it, not only will noise be a problem but also parking on the side of a steep hill.
There are now many young children in this street and the dangers of cars coming and going will disrupt the peace and quiet of a location that we have lived in for over 25 years.
Please keep STA out of residential, the people that stay in these houses have no concern for residents, they are here for a short time and a good time often at the expense of others, people choose to live here for the peace and quiet, please lets keep it that way.

Please Noosa Council, do not approve this application for a short-term accommodation (STA) in our pocket up in northern Sunshine Beach, nor for that matter, any development applications for STA’s in the low density residential areas of Noosa Shire.

STA’s have many adverse impacts on suburbs that are intended (under both the current and superseded town planning schemes) to support long-term residential communities. The obvious impacts are those of excessive noise, parties, traffic, rubbish and car-parking over-spill onto the streets. The less obvious - but equally as concerning - are the adverse impacts that they have on the density and quality of a community and its ability to survive and preferably thrive. They remove housing stock for both long-term owners and long-term renters. They drive up house prices with their ability to leverage tax benefits and charge high rents. Our communities must already cope with a reduced permanent residential population bought on by second home ownership in the area. Healthy communities contain friends in your street who can keep an eye on your place when you are away or help with your kids and your pets. People you have a drink and dinner with down at the surf club. People whose kids play with yours on the way home from school. Healthy communities aren’t made up of empty houses owned by distant investors or by short term visitors.

Historically there has been a few short-term rentals in the area but the number have been low, unregulated and fluid. But with the growth of airbnb and other platforms plus the changes bought on by COVID19, the number of STA’s in the area has now passed the tipping point of what we believe to be reasonable to maintain a happy community.

The recent rush appears to be the result of investor owners trying to capitalise on a perceived loop-hole in the superseded planning scheme and the June 2021 dead-line. If STA’s are given formal development approval then Council is essentially approving commercial businesses to be permanently established in residential areas. These development rights will then run in perpetuity regardless of ownership and establish the value of the house lot based on its commercial return instead of its original intended use as a home. The increased value will cement their continued use as a commercial property over the long term and forever erode the residential area.

Short-term visitors play an important economic role in our shire and are to be supported in the appropriate areas as established under both the old and the new planning schemes. But they are unsuitable and not-compliant with the planning intent for low density residential areas.

We moved here to Iive in a residential community and not a holiday resort populated by short-term visitors. Please - no more STA’s in our area.

Our house in Captains Court was once listed on air Bnb (when we weren’t staying in It), and now that we permanently live here we recognise it was the wrong decision for the neighbourhood and the community. Although we eventually had strict booking criteria, tried to screen guests and installed cameras, there were often multiple groups, and dog/s making noise day and night. As these groups were on holidays they were making noise 7 days/week day/night in non holiday periods, we had frequent complaints from surrounding streets and neighbours. Most guests disregarded the residents because they were ‘paying for a holiday’ and were at times rude and inconsiderate. If we had our time again we would have not done this. Captains Court is NOT the street for short term holiday rentals. It is a steep hill with very limited on street parking. Often cars park on other properties lawn. There can be multiple groups of guests so that can be many cars for each house that is a short term let. The street which is very narrow in parts cannot accomodate this. The existing residents of Captains Court are predominantly families with young kids who play in their yards and ride their bikes supervised on the street. Due to current air bnbs in Captains Court, we have already experienced an increase of cars driving too fast, young people walking in the street drinking, smashed bottles in the under pass, noise day/night. This is not safe for our children. Not to mention the impact on the many people who now work from home. I feel there are other areas across the Sunshine Coast and purpose built accomodation that catered for holiday makers. Noosa Council has a responsibility to protect the residents of Captains Court, and surrounding quiet streets in Sunrise Beach.

Dear Council,

Please reject any and all applications for STA’s in Captains Court, Sunrise Beach. As a resident in this street it is obvious that there is no place or sufficient infrastructure to support the large numbers of people and traffic that STA’s create. This is a quiet residential street with young families, school aged children and working parents. The noise and blatant disregard for local residents shown by users of 14 Captains Court (Air BnB?) is greatly effecting the amenity of this area. During the week kids don’t need to kept awake at night by loud parting and cars coming and going in the middle of the night, early hours of the morning. Parents who work, and shift workers like my wife and myself need quality sleep on nights off or in-between night shifts. This is one of the reasons we chose to buy and live in this street. We strongly object to turning it into a tourist area and loosing the quiet, beachside community appeal. We want to raise our kids in a safe and secure neighbourhood and having multitudes of people coming and going on a short-term basis is not conducive to this. Our kids ride their bikes and scooters with the neighbouring kids in the street after school and on weekends, and as our street is a cul de sac at the end of a series of no-through roads that goes right back up to the roundabout on Southern Cross Parade and Resolute St, this should be a safe and enjoyable thing for the kids to enjoy. People using STA’s are unaware of the this and speed up and down the street making it dangerous for the kids to play.

The parking is another huge issue. Often at number 14 Captains Court there will be 6 to 8 cars. There is no room for the property to accommodate this number of vehicles so they park on both sides of the road and on neighbouring properties. As the street is steep and curves in this section, it is dangerous and constricts access and vision. There are many days where it is difficult for our cars, let alone the garbage truck or emergency vehicles, to negotiate this constricted space and it is my opinion that it is only a matter of time before this causes an accident. To simply gain access to my property it has been necessary on numerous occasions to knock on the door and get them to move a vehicle or two.

All of these negative impacts to our street are currently being caused by one STA property. The effects of allowing 4 or 5 STA properties to operate here would truly transform this street and this neighbourhood into a very undesirable place to live.

Council’s priority should be to foster and protect the kind of community and neighbourhood we have here which supports local schools, jobs, businesses and sporting groups. Not to aid in their destruction by allowing or approving STA’s in residential areas, which ruins the residential amenity and pushes locals out of the area by contributing to the housing crisis.

Sincerely,
Rob

Dear Council Assessment Manager,

Please refuse this application SPS21/0048 for 19 Captains Court Sunrise Beach and all STA applications for Captains Court, Sunrise Beach and its quiet neighbouring residential streets. This neighbourhood of no-through streets is a haven to local residents who bought in the area to be away from the traffic, tourist precincts and noise. Together we have built a sense of community and community pride.

As a local resident who is directly impacted by a current STA, I cannot express enough how these STAs in a residential neighbourhood negatively affect the day to day living of local residents and their families.

Traffic and car parking are major issues. Captains Court is steep, narrow and curves. The STA houses do not have ample off-road car parking and the cars park all over the locals’ properties and down the street. It makes it near impossible on a daily basis for my family to even back out of our own driveway with our cars. It is impossible when we are towing a trailer. The houses are big and multiple friends/families stay in them and it is not uncommon to have 4 to 6 cars (sometimes more) at a time at each property. The car numbers increase yet again when the houses are used for large parties and celebrations. The blind spots the cars create is dangerous.

The increased traffic in the street is causing traffic congestion and major safety concerns. The car numbers increase with tourists, Ubers, taxis, delivery drivers and speeding up and down the hill is becoming more prominent. The local children use our street as a safe haven to play and the residents come together for catch ups and BBQs out the front of the houses. We are building a community who takes pride in its neighbourhood and people. The cars do not consider the local children, families nor the pedestrian traffic using the local pathway access to get to the beach.

Furthermore, noise pollution from the frequent parties and celebrations are becoming a huge issue for residents who need sleep to work and just function the next day. Unfortunately, from current experience, tourists staying in these houses do not care what day of the week it is when it comes to parties and loud music. We have also seen an increase in rubbish and smashed bottles littering our gutters.

We bought in this street to be long term residents and most of the street would agree. If you count the number of STA applications for Captains Court and its neighbouring streets and actually approve these STAs you are turning our once quiet neighbourhood into a tourist precinct. The local residents bought into this neighbourhood for its amenity, close proximity to schools and the beach. Council will be setting a precedence, driving local residents out and losing any substance we can call amenity. Surely this is against Noosa Council’s long term plan for this area and approving more STAs would just exacerbate the current housing crisis?

Please Council, refuse this STA application. Keep any STA approvals for dedicated tourist precincts, not local residential neighbourhood communities.

Thank you,
Suzy

Please reject this application for approval for short term accommodation. Captains court is a otherwise quiet dead end street with many children and families wanting to enjoy a sense of community and peaceful enjoyment of the Noosa lifestyle. The presence of STAs in this street negatively impacts the lifestyle of the many rate paying residential families who contribute to the local community in contrast to the owners of this accommodation.
Users of STA in Captains court frequently place children at risk of injury, driving without due consideration to their environment. Entering Captains Court from Resolute Street is largely a blind corner due to trees on the footpath, and drivers frequently exit this roundabout at high speed with no consideration of what is around corner. There are frequently many young children playing on the footpath immediately around this corner, or riding their bikes on the street; activities that I would hope families of a “low density residential” zoned area of Noosa could expect to be able to do.
The number and capacity of the STA in this street far exceeds the amount of safe parking available. The combination of a relatively narrow street, with a gentle curve and upwards slope means with cars parked on the street; residents backing out can not safely check for pedestrians or other cars approaching.
STA users frequently create noise throughout the day and night, without consideration to local residents. Noise carries through this valley disrupting the families who live here. Visitors show little respect for others, in contrast to the residents of the street.
There is a strong objection by the residents of this street to STA in this location. Supporting this application is in contradiction to council ruling stating its presence must not detrimentally affect its residents. Please reject this application and preserve the Noosa lifestyle for its residents and their children.