Appendix B - Terrestrial Ecology Assessment

Koala habitat protection and enhancement Table 8.2.2.3 - Criteria for assessable development (part)
Performance outcomes                                                 Acceptable outcomes
Koala habitat protection and enhancement
PO11                                                                 AO11.1
Development is designed, constructed and operated to—                Development design complies with the Koala-sensitive
                                                                     Design Guideline: A guide to koala sensitive design measures
      1.   protect and enhance koalas and koala habitat              for planning and development activities.
           and avoid adverse impacts;
      2.   provide measures to assist the survival of koala          AO11.2
           populations in the area to mitigate any potential         Development incorporates revegetation and landscaping
           threats or risk to koalas; and                            that provides food, shelter and movement opportunities for
      3.   provide for safe and appropriate koala                    koalas.
           movement across the landscape.
                                                                     AO11.3
                                                                     Development is designed to maximise and enhance
Editor's Note—Koala habitat mapping is in Schedule 2 Mapping.
                                                                     connectivity between koala habitat trees and ensure safe
                                                                     koala movement.
Editor's Note—The Planning Regulation 2017, schedule 10 states
that development that interferes with koala habitat, in an area
that is both a koala priority area and a koala habitat area, is
                                                                     AO11.4
prohibited development (subject to the exceptions stated in          During construction, measures are incorporated to not
schedule 10 of the Planning Regulation 2017).                        increase the risk of death or injury to koalas, by including
                                                                     safe koala movement measures, as defined in the Planning
Editor's Note - These performance outcomes and acceptable            Regulation 2017.
outcomes apply to:


      1.   development on land in a koala priority area, where the
           development does not interfere with koala habitat and
           where the benchmarks are additional to and not
           inconsistent with, the assessment benchmarks stated in
           schedule 11, part 2 of the Planning Regulations 2017;
           and
      2.   development on land outside the koala priority area,
           where the development does not interfere with koala
           habitat in koala habitat areas.


Project Outcome:

As described/illustrated in the ecology assessment and as displayed on site, the land is not appropriately
connected to the surrounding bushland for koalas.

The area is fenced and separated by a road.

Nevertheless, koala habitat trees are to be retained within the bushland patch.

Infill planting would include koala feed trees (L.confertus as per the concept landscape plan).

A fauna spotter would be present during the clearing of the few trees proposed to be removed.

These are matters that would be part of the approval condition.




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