Submission Letter · MCU18/0015

 

 

rehabilitation and enhancement to improve ecological
functioning and water quality;

vii constructed water bodies including canals not being
created except where maintained as private assets and
used for other than water treatment purposes;

viii protecting and improving the quality of ground and
surface water in a manner that ensures its long term
environmental values, ecological integrity and
sustainability;

ix maintaining coastal foreshores including near shore
marine environments, beaches, dunes, rocky headlands,
beaches and river mouths in their natural state;

x ensuring development protects coastal resources and
values and provides for physical coastal processes to
occur naturally where adverse impacts are avoided as far
as is practicable, or where avoidance is not practicable,
minimised and mitigated;

xi maintaining the conservation of high proportions of
vegetated land, as compared to developed land, to
distinguish Noosa Shire from other parts of south-east
Queensland;

xii maintaining the distinct vegetated character of Noosa
Shire and the retention of natural vegetation and
landscaping with native species;

xiii protecting sensitive areas of native bushland from the
impacts of urban activities such as domestic animals,
escaped garden weeds, fertilisers and stormwater run-
off;

xiv increasing the amount of land protected for
conservation purposes under public ownership that
ideally represent the full range of habitats and species
found across Noosa Shire, forming corridors for the safe
movement and successful breeding of wildlife within the
Shire and beyond;

xv the integrity of conservation reserves being supported
by wider networks of open space across Noosa Shire and
beyond, comprising both natural habitat and areas
capable of regeneration or rehabilitation;

xvi the upper reaches of the Noosa River remaining
substantially undeveloped and development in the lower
reaches being consolidated within existing settlements

 

The proposal involves significant vegetation
clearing on land identified as Open space
Conversation which has been identified within the
Noosa Plan 2006 has not being suitable for
development.

As outlined within the Ecology Assessment
lodged as part of the development application, the
proposal will result in the increase of domestic
dogs and cats on site that prey on native fauna
and may have significant impacts on the
populations of native species. The proposed
development may increase the rate by which non-
native predators such as dogs and cats are
introduced into habitats retained on the site or
adjoining the site

The land proposed to be transferred to Council for
public ownership does not represent a safe
movement corridor for wildlife as the existing
vegetation on the site will be significantly cleared
to establish the proposed development prior to
transfer of land to Council. The transfer of land to
Council should be in line with the zoning mapping
of the site, with particular reference to the Open
space Conversation zoning.

 

 

7 December 2018

LPC — Noosa Shire Council

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