FURTHER REPORT - Planning & Environment Committee 6 May 2025 MCU21/0110

PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING REPORT                                     6 MAY 2025


          d. clear integration of the Bushfire requirements and recommendations identified
             within the approved Bushfire Hazard Assessment Report & Mitigation Plan version
             8 dated 25.02.2025, including landscaping treatments where maximum distances
             are permitted including:
                i.    a band of vegetation up to 20m wide along Resort Drive is to contain 100%
                      less flammable plant species;
               ii.    the remaining area greater than 20m from Resort Drive can contain no less
                      than 50% less flammable plant species in the understory and groundcover;
                      and
               iii.   regular maintenance of groundcover and understorey to reduce flammability
                      within the landscaped area.
          e. clear integration of the landscaping recommendations, for the purpose of odour
             mitigation, identified in the Katestone report dated December 2020.
          f.   A vegetated buffer of a height that avoids line of sight contact with the Sewage
               Treatment Plant from any place or structure on the development site to Council’s
               satisfaction.
          g. Both sides of Resort Drive Road Reserve between the intersections of Links Drive
             and Lakeview Rise must be rehabilitated and revegetated in accordance with the
             landscaping recommendations of the approved Bushfire Hazard Assessment and
             Mitigation Plan version 8, prepared by Rob Friend and Associates dated
             25.02.2025.
          h. The works must be undertaken in accordance with an Operational Works approval.
          i.   Details of water quality treatment device plantings with a minimum of five plant
               species and a plant density of 8 plants per square metre;
          j.   Details of all fencing and gates (including but not limited to height, construction
               type, materials);
          k. Details of tree protection methods provided by a qualified person* to be engaged
             to protect trees identified within the conditions of this approval in particular
             vegetation located within the mapped Koala Habitat Area to the north of the
             development site.
          l.   Native trees of a minimum pot size of 100L to replace existing trees to be removed
               from the site, at the rate of 1 replacement tree for every tree removed that has a
               diameter greater than 200mm measured at 1.2 metres from ground surface level.
          m. Vegetated screening of any electrical transformers, bin storage areas and the like
             from the road frontage.
          n. Vegetation offsets in accordance with the recommendations Gondwana Ecology
             letter dated 9 February 2023.
    67.   All landscape works must be established and maintained in accordance with the
          approved design for the life of the development, and in a manner that ensures healthy,
          sustained and vigorous plant growth. All plant material must be allowed to grow to full
          form and be refurbished when its life expectancy is reached.
    68.   Control of all weeds species listed in the following standards and legislation:
          a. Declared plants under the Land Protection (Biodiversity Act 2014 and subordinate
             Regulation 2016).
          b. Noosa Local Government Area Pest Management Plan 2015-2019.
          c. Undesirable Species as listed in Planning Scheme Policy 3 Landscaping Plants
             and Guidelines.


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