HIGH-DENSITY MONOLITHIC APARTMENT BLOCKS ARE TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE FOR YAROOMBA BEACH!
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Yaroomba Beach has a medium density residential zoning under the Coolum Local Plan Area of the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme 2014. Under the Scheme “a multi-unit residential use has a residential density compatible with the intent of the zone and the preferred character for the local area in which it is located.”
1,623 residents currently live in Yaroomba (2016 Census data) and enjoy the local social amenity of uncrowded streetscapes and medium density living spread over an appreciable area of land. The Sekisui Development Proposal for Yaroomba intends to construct over 750 residential dwellings and a 220 room high-rise resort hotel on a much smaller contained site. Even allowing for a possible apartment and room vacancy rate of 10% overall, and allowing a generous single person occupancy rate of 10% for the remaining apartments and rooms, the result of a standard 2 person occupancy rate for the rest of the accommodation modules in Sekisui’s Development will be the addition of over two thousand extra people to the Yaroomba population. |
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All of those extra people will be crammed into a small high-density contained zone that does not conform to the spirit and intent of the residential density zone clauses of the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme 2014.
In other words the Sekisui Development will increase the current population of Yaroomba by a factor of 2.5, and that means that 4,040 people will then be competing for the use of limited local facilities and road space in Yaroomba Beach.
As bad as they are, the figures quoted above are deliberately conservative and do not allow for the fact that the average number of residents per household dwelling in Australia is 2.6, and not the baseline 2 that we have used (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2015: 3236.0 – Household and Family Projections).
Also, we have regarded the 70 dual-key units in the Development as single households rather than the double households that they really are.
Sekisui is proposing a high-density enclave that will swamp the current population of Yaroomba. Each individual current resident will be outnumbered by tourists and transient visitors by a factor of 1.5, and the friendly uncrowded nature of Yaroomba Beach will end.
The Yaroomba we all know and love will disappear.
THE FACTS: Yaroomba Beach is zoned medium density under the Coolum Local Plan Area. The 2016 Census Data shows that 1,623 people currently live in Yaroomba.
The Sekisui Development proposes to build over 750 dwellings and a 220 room hotel at Yaroomba Beach on a small contained site, and this will add an additional two thousand people to the population of Yaroomba.
This will increase the Yaroomba population by a factor of 2.5. The Approval granted will change the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme 2014 to allow for this development that is not compatible with the density zoning and preferred character of the local Yaroomba area.
In other words the Sekisui Development will increase the current population of Yaroomba by a factor of 2.5, and that means that 4,040 people will then be competing for the use of limited local facilities and road space in Yaroomba Beach.
As bad as they are, the figures quoted above are deliberately conservative and do not allow for the fact that the average number of residents per household dwelling in Australia is 2.6, and not the baseline 2 that we have used (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2015: 3236.0 – Household and Family Projections).
Also, we have regarded the 70 dual-key units in the Development as single households rather than the double households that they really are.
Sekisui is proposing a high-density enclave that will swamp the current population of Yaroomba. Each individual current resident will be outnumbered by tourists and transient visitors by a factor of 1.5, and the friendly uncrowded nature of Yaroomba Beach will end.
The Yaroomba we all know and love will disappear.
THE FACTS: Yaroomba Beach is zoned medium density under the Coolum Local Plan Area. The 2016 Census Data shows that 1,623 people currently live in Yaroomba.
The Sekisui Development proposes to build over 750 dwellings and a 220 room hotel at Yaroomba Beach on a small contained site, and this will add an additional two thousand people to the population of Yaroomba.
This will increase the Yaroomba population by a factor of 2.5. The Approval granted will change the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme 2014 to allow for this development that is not compatible with the density zoning and preferred character of the local Yaroomba area.
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The Save Yaroomba Group (as a sub committee of Friends of Yaroomba Inc) is dedicated to the preservation of social amenity in the Yaroomba Village area. We are not opposed to appropriate development or economic growth across the Sunshine Coast region or the Yaroomba Beach precinct. We are opposed to the Sekisui Yaroomba Beach development because it does not conform to the reasonable restraints contained in the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme 2014. The Sekisui DA will greatly affect the social environment for all residents in the Yaroomba Beach Community, and our aim is to ensure that the Sekisui Yaroomba proposal fully adheres to the height and density requirements stipulated for the Yaroomba Beach district in the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme 2014. We welcome appropriate development to Yaroomba Beach, but we will strenuously oppose the current form of the Sekisui Yaroomba Beach proposal. If you would like to support our cause to save the Yaroomba Beach Community from this inappropriate Sekisui Yaroomba development, you are welcome to either donate via the facility on this website, or join our email list to receive updates.
