Planning Report

      Koala habitat protection and enhancement                             Table 8.2.2.3 ­ Criteria for

      assessable development(part)
Performance outcomes                         Acceptable outcomes
Koala habitat protection and enhancement                                                Justification
PO11                                         AO11.1                                     The site is not located within the Core
Development is designed, constructed         Development design complies with           Koala Habitat Area mapping and will not
and operated to—                             the Koala­sensitive DesignGuideline:       adversely impact any Koala habitat.
(a)   protect and enhance koalas             A guide to koala sensitive design
      and koala habitat and avoid            measures for planning and
      adverse impacts;                       development activities.
(b)   provide measures to assist the
      survival of koala populations in       AO11.2
      the area to mitigate any potential     Development incorporates revegetation
      threats orrisk to koalas; and          and landscaping that provides food,
                                             shelter and movement opportunities for
(c)   provide for safe and appropriate
                                             koalas.
      koala movement acrossthe
      landscape.
                                             AO11.3
                                             Development is designed to maximise
Editor's Note—Koala habitat mapping is       and enhance connectivitybetween koala
in Schedule 2 Mapping.
                                             habitat trees and ensure safe koala
                                             movement.
Editor's Note—The Planning Regulation
2017, schedule 10 statesthat
                                             AO11.4
development that interferes with koala
                                             During construction, measures are
habitat, in an area that is both a koala
                                             incorporated to not increase the risk of
priority area and a koala habitat area, is
                                             death or injury to koalas, by including
prohibited development (subject to the
                                             safe koala movement measures, as
exceptions stated in schedule 10 of the
                                             defined in the Planning Regulation
Planning Regulation 2017).
                                             2017.

Editor's Note ­ These performance
outcomes and acceptableoutcomes apply
to:
(a)   development on land in a koala
      priority area, where the
      development does not interfere
      with koala habitat and where the
      benchmarks are additional to and
      not inconsistent with, the
      assessment benchmarks stated
      in schedule 11, part 2 of the
      Planning Regulations 2017; and
(b)   development on land outside the
      koala priority area, wherethe
      development does not interfere
      with koala habitat in koala habitat
      areas.




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