Appendix C - Code Assessment

Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands Overlay Code



Rehabilitation of ecologically important areas Table 8.2.2.3 - Criteria for assessable development (part)

Performance outcomes                                                Acceptable solutions                                                    Assessment
Rehabilitation of ecologically important areas

PO10                                                                AO10.1                                                                  AO10.1 – Complies
Development provides for ecologically important areas to be         Landscaping and rehabilitation complements and                          Any landscaping to be undertaken will complement the local
restored and enhanced through:                                      supports ecologically important areas by:                               ecosystem.

 a)   designing landscaped areas to complement and enhance           a)   utilising local native species;
      existing vegetation and ecological linkages;                   b)   utilising suitable plant species identified in PSP2
 b)   removing species likely to displace native flora species or         Landscaping;
      degrade fauna habitat;                                         c)   restoring degraded ecosystems to achieve a functional
 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
                                                                                                                                            AO10.2 – Not Applicable
                                                                    Vegetation cleared is replaced with:
                                                                                                                                            The proposed development does not involve vegetation clearing.
                                                                     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.

                                                                    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