OPW052025 Report - Part 2

  Koala habitat protection and enhancement                              Table 8.2.2.3 - Criteria for assessable development (part)


Performance outcomes                                                     Acceptable outcomes                                                                       Response

Koala habitat protection and enhancement
PO11                                                                     AO11.1                                                           Not applicable as the proposed driveway follows an existing
Development is designed, constructed and operated to—                    Development design complies with the Koala-sensitive Design      track located through the allotment.
(a)   protect and enhance koalas and koala habitat and avoid             Guideline: A guide to koala sensitive design measures for
      adverse impacts;                                                   planning and development activities.

(b)   provide measures to assist the survival of koala
                                                                         AO11.2
      populations in the area to mitigate any potential threats or
                                                                         Development incorporates revegetation and landscaping that
      risk to koalas; and
                                                                         provides food, shelter and movement opportunities for koalas.
(c)   provide for safe and appropriate koala movement across
      the landscape.                                                     AO11.3
                                                                         Development is designed to maximise and enhance connectivity
Editor's Note—Koala habitat mapping is in Schedule 2 Mapping.            between koala habitat trees and ensure safe koala movement.

Editor's Note—The Planning Regulation 2017, schedule 10 states           AO11.4
that development that interferes with koala habitat, in an area that     During construction, measures are incorporated to not increase
is both a koala priority area and a koala habitat area, is prohibited    the risk of death or injury to koalas, by including safe koala
development (subject to the exceptions stated in schedule 10 of          movement measures, as defined in the Planning Regulation
the Planning Regulation 2017).                                           2017.

Editor's Note - These performance outcomes and acceptable
outcomes 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, where
      the development does not interfere with koala habitat in
      koala habitat areas.