Ms Coyle said the planning act allowed for the approval process to be stopped for up to an accumulative period of 130 days.
She said the mechanism could be stopped and restarted by the GemLife as many times as it liked.
GemLife has requested to halt the process on its application until March 18.
âIâve never seen that before,â Ms Coyle said.
âI find it quite highly unusual that theyâve taken this approach in order to try and defer the matter until a further meeting. The layout of the proposed GemLife development.
âIt does mean that the council cannot decide the application today because the decision period is stopped.â
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But the nearby property manager of Coral Beach Noosa Resort Finola Thompson, who formally objected to application, is not happy. Everything has been done the wrong way round, the focus should be on having professional operators who have a code of standards, who have response times, Ms Thompson said. How are council going to enforce the conditions, that s the main thing and how will they know whether it s being enforced on not? If you look at the design of that property that has just been approved it all opens out to the street so if that one is not properly managed that will disturb the whole street, she said.
Noosa has battled to control short-term lettings in residential areas that attract large number of tenants whose rowdy socialising impacts nearby neighbours. I understand that this is a police matter and that we can only regulate the land use, Cr Lorentson said. Police as we know are under resourced ⦠my question is why can t we give our local laws officers greater powers? Cr Lorentson said. She said there had to be a point when the council decided to step up and act. However, Mr de Chastel rejected the idea, citing concerns about putting local laws officers in harm s way. Noosa through its planning scheme has prohibited approving party houses .
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