2021-02-25 Special Meeting Agenda

SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA                                                         25 FEBRUARY 2021

destabilisation of the banks will increase light penetration into the waterway, increase sediments
and degrade in-stream and riparian habitat values in-situ and downstream. Rock armament will
result in loss of suitable habitat for threatened species. Furthermore the provision of dwellings, a
sewerage pump station, holding tanks and auxiliary power supply, RV storage area and road and
footpath network within the riparian buffer area sterilises the area for future ecological habitat
restoration intended by the planning scheme.
Extensive earthworks, and associated development, within the riparian buffer inhibit natural creek
bed movements and force energy dissipation associated with flood waters elsewhere. Provision of
required riparian buffers, habitat restoration and enhancement planting will mitigate the
aforementioned ecological hazards.
Considering the intensification of the site in a rural zone, the proposed use and the earthworks
required to undertake this use, the application of a suitable riparian buffer is paramount to achieve
the environmental outcomes of the Biodiversity Overlay Code. The current layout is not supported
due to encroachment in to the riparian buffer area.
The following images detail the waterway within the Riparian Buffer:




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