REVISED POLICY GUIDELINES- PRIVATE LAND CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIPS · Revised Policy Guidelines - Private Land Conservation Partnerships - track changes

       scheme amendments.

Council will provide assistance to the landowner including technical advice relating to the planning and
ongoing management of the conservation area. Council will undertake or provide for works in the
conservation area as outlined in the EMP and Agreement.

Council will also make available to the landholder the determined annual financial incentive for each year of
the agreement. Financial incentives will be reviewed every 3 years to reflect CPI increases. A register of sites
subject to a VCA and Split Zoning will be maintained by Council.

The VCA program will be administered and implemented by the Conservation Partnerships Officer from the
Environmental Services Branch of Council.

Landowner
Landowners entering into a VCA or Split Zoning will:

       •   Comply with the relevant protective mechanism conditions.
       •   Undertake those works identified as being their responsibility in the agreement and EMP.
       •   Inform Council of their intention to sell their property and inform them when the sale has taken place.


DEFINITIONS
“Biodiversity” refers to the variety of all life forms - all the different plants, animals and micro-organisms, and
the ecosystems of which they are a part.
“Biodiversity Corridors” are broad tracts of vegetated, cleared and partly cleared land, extending across the
Noosa landscape that consolidate or connect core habitat, and can occur across private and/or public land.
“Conservation Land Guideline” is a mapping methodology to identify environmentally significant land for
potential acquisition or for private land conservation outcomes.
“Core Protected Areas” are large biodiverse areas that consist collectively of public land already under
conservation protection such as National Park, Bushland Reserves and Nature Refuges.
“Environment” refers to the use of the word to describe the natural (not man-made) environment of the
region and includes the natural ecological systems of air, water, soil and associated species of flora and fauna.
“Environment Levy” refers to a levy raised by Council (in accordance with section 94 of the Queensland
Local Government Act 2009), on all rateable properties within its jurisdiction, in order to meet the objectives in
this policy.

RELEVANT LEGISLATION
Noosa Council Environment Levy Policy 2018
Qld Environmental Offsets Policy 2022
Qld Land Act 1994
Qld Nature Conservation Act 1992
Qld Planning Act 2016
Qld Vegetation Management Act 1999

Version control:
 Version        Reason/ Trigger                   Change (Y/N)   Endorsed/ Reviewed by       Date

 1.0            Create new                                       Council                     20/09/2018

 2.0            Revision                          Y              Council                     16/01/2020

 3.0            Revision