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

PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING REPORT                                   11 JUNE 2024


           e. where fencing is installed to secure boundaries:
                 i.   the fencing must be durable and not capable of being pushed or blown over
                ii.   the fencing type must not detract from local amenity (barbed wire is not
                      acceptable)
               iii.   vandalism must be promptly repaired and any graffiti removed.
Retention of Existing Trees
     69.   Existing trees on the development site and in the road reserve must be retained in
           accordance with an Arborist Report (or part thereof) prepared by a qualified person* and
           endorsed through an Operational Works approval. The Arborist Report must include:
           a. Tree removal/retention plan that includes all native trees and identifies in particular
              all native trees to be removed with a diameter greater than 200mm measured at
              1.2m from ground surface level.
               *(Refer to Advisory Note)
     70.  Vegetation identified as not approved for removal within ‘Attachment E - Tree Removal
         Plan’ within the approved Terrestrial Ecological Assessment report, and as amended by
         the letter, attached plans and tree survey prepared by Gondwana Ecology dated 9
         February 2023, must be protected.
     71. The trees identified for retention in the conditions of this approval must be maintained
           in good health for the life of the tree.
Vegetation Removal
     72. ‘Attachment E - Tree Removal Plan’ within the approved Terrestrial Ecological
          Assessment report and as amended by the letter, attached plans and tree survey
          prepared by Gondwana Ecology dated 9 February 2023 identifies the vegetation
          approved for removal.
     73.   Any removal of vegetation must be in accordance with the conditions of this approval.
           Land Rehabilitation
     74.   The land area containing retained vegetation is required to be rehabilitated with local
           native species suitable for the area and the species selection consistent with the
           naturally occurring species in the area whilst maintaining compliance with bushfire
           conditions within this approval. The works must be undertaken in accordance with an
           Operational Works approval.
     75.   A Vegetation Management and Rehabilitation Plan is to be prepared by a qualified
           person* and submitted for approval as part of the operational works application. This
           pla n must include (but not limited to):
           a. Existing remnant vegetation protection;
           b. Vegetation rehabilitation;
           c. Weed management; and
           d. Performance outcomes and how and when they are to be achieved.
     76.   A “no clearing zone” must be established and maintained over the area identified as ‘1
           – Existing Remnant Vegetation to be retained with weed management implementation’
           within the Landscape Concept Design Package plan LCP5 listed within this Decision
           Notice. With the exception of the trees approved to be removed in the conditions of this
           approval. The following activities must not be carried out within the no clearing zone:
           a. clearing, cutting down, poisoning, lopping or pruning of native vegetation which is
               indigenous to, or planted within, the zone

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