35 Seaview Tce Sunshine Beach QLD 4567

I don't understand how the council can allow houses that have never been used as Short Term Accommodation to change their use. The north end of Sunshine Beach should be preserved for the use of residential enclave and not turned into investor orientated purposes. Approving STA in north Sunshine simply endorses holiday makers to make noise, held parties, increase traffic and ruin the ambience for us residents who call north Sunshine home. Investors also drive up house prices that make in unaffordable for actual Noosa locals to ever achieve a beach side house.

The Noosa Council needs to show courage and say NO to STA's in low density residential areas.

Again another residential house wanting to be turned into a screaming SSL. Noosa Council, come live with us for a month and you will understand why these houses should not be allowed in these areas. The quietness of our street is destroyed by ONLY the SSL's that have popped up unregulated. Please do not allow this. Stop allowing any until full regulation comes in.

The number of recent applicants racing to get approval is ridiculous, all further and current applications need to be halted until the new regulation and amendments are in place!!! Perhaps with the new regulations, these investors may choose to rent them out as Long term rentals instead.

All the same issues apply: noise, light, extra car and traffic, wear and tear. Overcrowding of cars to the capacity for the accomodation. Locals right to a high level of living amenety ruined. Commercial business run from residential streets regardless of the low level of infrastructure to cater to it.
I strongly appose another Short Term property in Sunshine Beach. Yellow lines run both lengths of this very busy street. This was previously owned by locals living here, yet another property off the market for families desperately to seeking housing.

I agree with all comments posted by Yanni, Johanna Redwood and Greg Harris.
Please stop approving STAs in Sunshine Beach low density residential streets. Please put residents first and act now before STAs completely destroy our once peaceful residential neighbourhood.

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.

We are a young family that lives nearby the proposed STA. We strongly object to this proposal. We moved to this area to be a part of the community--and a huge part of that are our neighbors. Creating an environment that cultivates those relationships and strong ties is of the upmost importance. Having a continuous stream of holiday makers will be detrimental to the fabric of the neighborhood.