2014-10-14 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda - Pages 1 - 50

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                               14 OCTOBER 2014


4                        TENURE OF LAND PURCHASED WITH THE ENVIRONMENT LEVY
DOCUMENT INFORM AT ION




Author                             Environment Officer, Peter Milne
                                   Planning and Infrastructure

Index                              ECM / Subject / Environment Levy / 19787179

Attachments                        1.    Map of Environment Levy Lands


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Not applicable.

RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Environment Officer to the Planning and Organisation
Committee Meeting dated 14 October 2014 regarding the land previously purchased with the
Environmental Levy currently in state ownership and without conservation protection tenure and
A.                        Request the Chief Executive Officer to write to the Director-General of the Department of
                          Environment and Heritage Protection seeking that Lot 12 SP148801, Lot 22 RP25570,
                          Lot 7 MCH842016, Lot 2 RP800334 be gazetted as National Park; and
B.                        Note that officers are progressing with Department of National Park, Recreation, Sports
                          and Racing the dedication of Lot 121 RP100974, Lot 2 RP165434, Lot 4 RP136234 and
                          Lot 2 RP111976 as Regional Park with Council as trustee.



REPORT
Recently a review of the conservation protection tenure of land purchased with the Environment
Levy was undertaken by Councils Environment Services, with the assistance of the Property and
Land Management Section. Table 1 provides a list of land purchased since 1996:

Location                          Registered      Tenure          Managed by    Date of      Values          Area
                                  Plan                                          Purchase
Noosa Drive &                     113MCH4128      Council         Council       May 1996     Koala Habitat   .7613h
Leslie Drive,                                     freehold                                                   a
Noosa Heads
Boreen Pde,                       44RP59216       Unity Water     Unity Water   June 1997    Riparian        377m2
Boreen Point                                      freehold        Council                    vegetation      and
                                  48RP908665      Council                                    and             315m2
                                                  freehold                                   sandstone
                                                                                             outcrops

‘Yalanga’,                        12M37483        National Park   QPWS (now     October      Rare and        120 ha
Bates Rd,                         (now National                   NPRSR)        1997         threatened      (approx
Como                              Park)                                         Joint        species,        .)
                                                                                purchase     adjoins
                                                                                with State   Cooloola NP

Butler Street,                    6RP202272       Council         Council       Nov1997      Wetlands-       5.6 ha
Tewantin, next                    299MCH1042      freehold                                   mangroves,      and 6.1
to Lake                                           Nature Refuge                              saltmarsh,      ha
Doonella                                                                                     melaleuca
                                                                                             forest


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