2022-02-14 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                              14 FEBRUARY 2022




Figure 6 – Maintenance and mowing of the site. Mowing contract in green and fire trail maintenance
in orange hatched.
Effect of development
It is likely that much of the vegetation would need to be removed to accommodate the development.
Offset planting can be directed next door or nearby in the Park or at Girraween. While it is a loss
of vegetation and provides a buffer to urban activities to the greater Pinaroo Park, it is a small
parcel and is not considered to have significant ecological value.
Revenue from development of the site could go towards improving the vegetation structure and
natural recruitment of the whole park towards reaching target RE12.2.5 as set out in the Pinaroo
Park Bushland Reserve Ecological Restoration Plan.
While offset plantings on the adjoining property may be undertaken to physically replace the
removed vegetation, comparing the loss of the perceived park area to the surrounding residents is
difficult to measure.
3.   Fauna
The understorey is home to a few individual Allocasuarina trees which the EVR indicates may
provide foraging for the Glossy black cockatoo. In terms of the number and size of the trees, while
it is a loss of potential habitat it very minor in scale, and offset plantings could occur nearby.
A flying fox colony is known to exist in Pinaroo Park with roosting occurring near the rear of the
site boundary. The EVR indicates that the vegetation within the lot could offer foraging habitat for
the flying foxes. Flying foxes are a protected species under the Nature Conservation Act 1992.
Flying fox
Environment Services indicates the colony is transient and does not always roost in the Park. The
colony currently has been there since 2015 in numbers ranging from approximately 500 to many
thousands. Last season was especially busy, with flying foxes extending almost the entire length
of the Park. Environment Services indicate customer complaints regarding noise, odour, guano
and fear of disease transmission and specifically, last season 9 complaints were submitted to
Council from residents close to the park.
Council is familiar with impacts of flying foxes on the built environment with residents around
Wallace Park affected for many years now. Council initiated a Flying Fox Subsidy Scheme where
affected residents of Wallace Park, Kin Kin and Pinaroo Park colonies could be supplied with
helpful items such as car covers, washing line covers, solar panel cleaning and a range of other

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