Development Assessment Report · OPW16/0016

Performance outcomes                   Acceptable outcomes                      Response     Comment
                                       water quality to achieve the                          unreasonable impacts on water quality.
                                       environmental values and water
                                       quality objectives outlined in the
                                       Environmental Protection (Water)
                                       Policy 2009.
                                       AND

                                       AO7.7 Development avoids the                         Any identified acid sulfate soils can be
                                       disturbance of acid sulphate soils, or                appropriately managed in accordance
                                       where it is demonstrated that this is                 with best practice where required.
                                       not possible, the disturbance of acid
                                       sulphate soils is carefully managed
                                       to minimise and mitigate the
                                       adverse effects of the disturbance
                                       on coastal resources.

PO8 Coastal protection work is         AO8.1 Coastal protection work is         N/A          The proposal does not involve coastal
undertaken only as a last resort       only undertaken to protect existing                   protection work.
where erosion presents an imminent     permanent structures from imminent
threat to public safety or permanent   adverse coastal erosion impacts, and
structures.                            the structures cannot reasonably be
Editor’s note: Applications for        relocated or abandoned.
coastal protection work must be        AND
supported by a report certified by
an RPEQ that demonstrates how the      AO8.2 Coastal protection work to         N/A          The proposal does not involve coastal
engineering solution sought by the     protect private structures is                         protection work.
work will be achieved.                 undertaken on private land to the
                                       maximum extent reasonable.
                                       AND

                                       AO8.3 Coastal protection work does       N/A          The proposal does not involve coastal
                                       not increase the coastal hazard risk                  protection work.
                                       for adjacent areas or properties.

PO9 Development avoids adverse         AO9.1 Development:                                   The area of the subject site to
impacts on matters of state            (1) is set back from matters of                       accommodate the proposed deck does
environmental significance, or             state environmental                               not contain any matters of state
where this is not reasonably               significance                                      environmental significance in accordance
possible, impacts are minimised and    (2) avoids interrupting, interfering                  with SARA mapping.
an environmental offset is provided        or otherwise adversely
for any significant residual impacts       impacting underlying natural
to matters of state environmental          ecosystem components or
significance that are prescribed           processes and interactions that
environmental matters.                     affect or maintain the matters
                                           of state environmental
                                           significance, such as water
                                           quality, hydrology,
                                           geomorphology and biological
                                           processes, or
                                       (3) incorporates measures as part
                                           of its location and design to
                                           protect and retain matters of
                                           state environmental
                                           significance and underlying
                                           ecosystem processes within
                                           and adjacent to the
                                           development site to the
                                           greatest extent practicable.
                                       Editor’s note: Applications for
                                       development should identify any
                                       threatened species or their habitats,
                                       or threatened ecosystems that may
                                       be affected by the proposal. In
                                       particular, applications should
                                       identify and describe how the
                                       development avoids adverse impacts
                                       on any critical life stage ecological
                                       processes within or adjacent to the
                                       development area.

State development assessment provisions                                               Module 10 — Coastal protection        10.1
Tidal works, or development in the coastal management district state code
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