OPW052025 Report - Part 2

      Rehabilitation of ecologically important areas                   Table 8.2.2.3 - Criteria for assessable development (part)
Performance outcomes                                                  Acceptable outcomes                                                                              Response
Rehabilitation of ecologically important areas
PO10                                                                  AO10.1                                                                  Not applicable as no new development is proposed. The
Development provides for ecologically important areas to be           Landscaping and rehabilitation complements and supports                 proposed driveway follows an existing track located through
restored and enhanced through:                                        ecologically important areas by:                                        the allotment.

(a)     designing landscaped areas to complement and enhance          (a)   utilising local native species;
        existing vegetation and ecological linkages;                        utilising suitable plant species identified in PSP2
                                                                      (b)
(b)     removing species likely to displace native flora species or         Landscaping;
        degrade fauna habitat;                                              restoring degraded ecosystems to achieve a functional
                                                                      (c)
(c)     replanting and rehabilitating degraded habitat;                     ecosystem state that requires minimal human intervention;
(d)     replacing any vegetation removed with suitable local native   (d)   replicating adjacent remnant habitats of the same type,
        species;                                                            including the understorey vegetation;
(e)     providing for fauna habitat; and                              (e)   creating or enhancing linkages between existing habitats;
(f)     avoiding the planting of pest plant species.                  (f)   avoiding the use of pest plant species listed in PSP2 -
                                                                            Landscaping;
                                                                      (g)   planting riparian zones to filter stormwater run-off, stabilise
                                                                            soil and provide for wildlife habitat; and
                                                                      (h)   providing ground and arboreal structures for fauna, which
                                                                            may include ground depressions, rocks, hollows, nesting
                                                                            boxes and in-stream habitat.

                                                                      AO10.2
                                                                      Vegetation cleared is replaced with:
                                                                      (a)   plantings of equivalent area that replicate the floristic
                                                                            structure of the vegetation removed; or
                                                                      (b)   where this is not possible due to the characteristics of the
                                                                            site and the development, plantings twice the number of the
                                                                            removed trees and plants.


                                                                      (e)   Editor’s Note — Revegetation and rehabilitation works
                                                                            are to be carried out in accordance with an approved
                                                                            Revegetation and Rehabilitation Management Plan, as
                                                                            referred to in PSP3 Ecological assessment guidelines