Noosa design principles celebrated in print

Council has published a new document celebrating the design principles that have guided Noosa’s look and feel over many years.

Staff interviewed architects, town planners, tourism stakeholders and councillors in a quest to articulate the unwritten principles that have influenced development across the shire.

Comments, anecdotes and pictures that residents supplied via Council’s YourSay Noosa website also helped in developing the document.

Noosa Design Principles, How Noosa has been shaped provides the design industry a useful reference and an interesting snapshot of local history.

Noosa Mayor Noel Playford said the principles it contained had a significant influence on Noosa’s look and feel, but had never really been formalised.

“With much of the prescriptive detail from Council’s 1986 Design Manual now enshrined in the planning scheme this new document offered a chance to reflect more on the philosophies that have guided Noosa’s look and feel over the years,” Cr Playford said.

The document acknowledges past Noosa Councils’ work, in partnership with the design industry, to achieve sensitive growth and development and retain a sense of character.

Historic photographs and imagery of Noosa streetscapes illustrate the document.

It outlines a range of design principles. These include an emphasis on the environment, space for social interaction, a ‘less is more’ approach to signage, a focus on public and active transport and an appetite for footpath dining.

Noosa Design Principles, How Noosa has been shaped will help promote Noosa’s natural beauty interstate and overseas.

The documents are available for purchase from Noosa Council, 9 Pelican Street, Tewantin.

Noosa Design Principles, How Noosa has been shaped is also available as a download from Council’s website.

19 August 2015