Response to Information Request

1.     Provide, at a minimum, line pegs of the proposed boundary and the
       proposed building envelope, prior to the formal response to the information
       request.

Response:

In response to Item 1 of Council’s Information Request, Murray & Associates
surveyors have pegged the required areas.

Item 2

Issue – Bushfire

The site is located within a mapped bushfire hazard area, contains koala habitat
area and a riparian buffer. Clearing for bushfire mitigation can impact on the
biodiversity values of the koala habitat area, environmental protection area and the
riparian buffer area which the planning scheme seeks to protect. Increasing the
number of lots in a bushfire hazard area requires assessment against the provision
of the Natural Hazards Overlay Code for bushfire hazard areas

Information Required

2.     Provide a Bushfire Assessment report which demonstrates compliance with
       the provisions of the Natural Hazards Overlay Code for bushfire hazard
       areas, the State Planning Policy for Natural Hazards and conserves, in-situ,
       the biodiversity values associated with the riparian buffer area,
       environmental protection area and the koala habitat area.

Response:

In response to Item 2 of Council’s Information Request, please refer to the Bushfire
Hazard Assessment & Management Plan prepared by North Coast Environmental
Services and attached at Appendix A of this response. The Plan of Development
(Plan No. 62805/B) prepared by Murray & Associates (Qld) Pty Ltd and attached at
Appendix B of this response incorporates the building envelope setbacks required
by the recommendations of the bushfire report.

Item 3

Issue – Biodiversity Values

Development is proposed to occur with the riparian buffer area and adjacent to
the environmental protection area. The biodiversity values can be impacted upon
by the subdivision. The planning seeks to protect and improve these values.

Information Required

3.     Demonstrate compliance with the Biodiversity Overlay code of the Noosa
       Plan by providing a plan showing areas of the environmental protection area,