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Applicant’s Response to Item 4: The 1997 Strategic Plan includes the site in the Rural Conservation
designation which details a number of objectives relevant to the proposal:

Objective 9.5.1 Protect the environmental values of land in the Rural Conservation designation and
ensure those values are not adversely impacted as a consequence of development on or adjacent to that
land.

The Strategic Plan details that land in this designation has significant constraints which generally preclude its
Suitability for house site areas as well as potentially featuring significant environmental values. The
protection of environmental values of the land is cited as the paramount factor in assessing planning
applications. The Strategic Plan specifically references the subject site noting that this land has significant
engineering constraints and some environmental value. Further subdivision is not envisaged and vegetation
bylaws are referenced as of means of maintaining existing vegetation.

It is acknowledged that the site is steeply sloping and as a result the applicant commissioned SCG
Engineers to provide a Slope Stability and Footings Report. This report included as part of this response
indicates that the engineering constraints of the site can be overcome subject to the incorporation of a
number of specific engineering and landscaping measures. These aspects can be adequately covered by
the impositions of relevant conditions.

With regard to the environmental values of the site the applicant engaged Chenoworth Environmental
Planning & Landscape Architecture to prepare an Ecological Assessment Report for the site including a
Vegetation Management Plan and Rehabilitation plan. (A copy of this report is attached) This report
indicates that any development of the site has the potential to impact on the values of the area however
measures should be undertaken to limit impacts on these values. Conditions requiring all works to accord
with the Vegetation and Rehabilitation Plan would address these aspects.

It is noted that the proposed dwelling is located to the rear of the site well away from the beach front area
and in line with the existing dwellings to the south. When compared to these residential properties the
location and extent of proposed dwelling is consistent with the ratio of built form to site area of the locality. As
illustrated by the aerial photograph below, dwellings along Seaview Terrace generally extend over the entire
upper level of the site.