Appendix E - Ecological Assessment Report

Ecological Assessment Report v1                                                         NCES Ref: J000669
Lot 2 on RP131369 – 108 Black Mountain Range Road, Black Mountain




                                                EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

North Coast Environmental Services have been commissioned to prepare an Ecological Assessment
Report for land formally described as Lot 2 on RP131369 located at 108 Black Mountain Range
Road, Black Mountain The report was requested to identify the environmental values of the site and
assess the impacts of a proposed reconfiguration of lot development application related to the site.
The outcomes of the environmental investigations identified the following:
    ·    The site supports local and State level biodiversity values.
    ·    Areas within the site are mapped within the Noosa Plan 2020 Biodiversity, waterways, and
         wetlands overlay map as containing the following overlays:
          o Areas of Biodiversity Significance;
          o MSES Environmental Values;
          o Waterways;
          o MSES Regulated Vegetation – intersecting a watercourse;
          o MSES Regulated Vegetation – Category R GBR riverine; and
          o Riparian Buffer Area.
    ·    Two vegetation communities were observed within the site:
          o Vegetation Community 1 (VC1) – Regrowth notophyll vine forest; and
          o Vegetation Community 2 (VC2) – Open pasture with low density trees.
The application has been assessed against several assessment frameworks and determined to be
compliant as follows:
    ·    The Noosa Plan 2020, Overlay Code 8.2.2 Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands Overlay
         Code – Compliant subject to Councils acceptance of minor impacts to planted vegetation
         within the mapped Area of Biodiversity Significance and MSES Regulated Vegetation
         (Category R GBR Riverine) overlay and the mitigation strategies proposed to mitigate against
         these impacts.
    ·    Nature Conservation Act 1992 – Compliant.
    ·    Vegetation Management Act 1999 and the associated State Code 16: Native Vegetation
         Clearing – Compliant - No referral required.
    ·    Nature Conservation (Koala) Conservation Plan 2017 - Schedule 11, Part 2 of the Planning
         Regulation 2017 – Proposed development complies with the Assessment Benchmarks.
    ·    Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 – Generally compliant. No
         significant impacts anticipated to threatened flora of fauna species or threatened ecologically
         communities.




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