MCU14/0028 Vision Statement

    8.   The Noosa Plan

2.11.1 Agricultural Uses & Use Classes

Cultivation means the growing of any plant for produce for commercial purposes, but does not include trees to be harvested for
timber or roadside stall. The term includes the following types:

Type 1 Traditional     The growing of more than 20 fruit trees or more than 100m2 of any
                       other crop on a commercial basis.

Type 2 Intensive       The growing of any crop on a commercial basis requiring multiple           The property has previously
                       applications of fertilisers, pesticides, fungicides or herbicides each     been a Cultivation Type 2
                       season. The use includes wholesale plant supply, sugar cane farming,       Intensive farm.
                       turf farming. The term does not include Forestry Type 2 Plantation as
                       separately defined.

Animal husbandry means the keeping, depasturing or, stabling of any animal, including birds, fish, crustaceans, insects or
reptiles. The term includes the following types:

Type 1 Traditional     The use of premises for dairying, cattle grazing, animal breeding          The property is an existing
                       establishments, holding yards or hatcheries. The term includes             Animal Husbandry Type 1
                       aquaculture with a combined surface area of all ponds or tanks or          Traditional farm.
                       200m2 or less but does not include uses defined as Animal husbandry
                                                                                                  We currently carry cattle at a
                       Type 2 Intensive. The term includes keeping animals at or above the
                                                                                                  rate of 1 per hectare and are
                       following rate:
                                                                                                  planning on increasing this to a
                       Bee Hives                                    4
                                                                                                  rate of 2 per hectare.
                       Caged birds (excluding poultry)               19
                       Cats                                         4                             The total number of pigs to be
                       Cattle, camels, goats, sheep and the like 2                                carried will not exceed 20, the
                       Dogs                                          4                            plan is for 2 sows and their
                       Horses                                       4                             progeny.
                       Pigs                                         1                             Free range chickens will be
                       Poultry (excluding roosters)                 10                            carried at a rate less than 20 per
                       Roosters                                     1                             hectare.* Up to a maximum of
                                                                                                  1000 birds. #

Type 2 Intensive       The use of premises for the keeping of animals at a density which          Currently exceeding 20 poultry
                       ordinarily requires supplementary feeding or containment in feed lots,     requires Melsted Park to be
                       sheds, pens or the like. The use includes the use of premises for          Animal Husbandry Type 2
                       aquaculture where the combined surface area of all ponds or tanks          Intensive in the existing Noosa
                       exceeds 200m2; pigs (exceeding 20 of at a density of more than 2 per       Plan.
                       hectare); poultry, emu r ostrich farming (exceeding 20 birds), boarding
                       kennels cattery, dog pound.

*Stocking rates: “The reference unit used for the calculation of livestock units (=1LSU) is the grazing equivalent of one adult
dairy cow producing 3000kg of milk annually, without additional concentrated foodstuffs.” 0.014 laying hens = 1LSU, therefore
1000 laying hens = 14 dairy cows. 0.007 broilers = 1LSU, therefore 1000 broilers = 7 dairy cows. At a stocking rate of a maximum
of 999 poultry at the most it is equivalent to 14 dairy cows. Cows 2 years and over are 0.8 LSU. (Eurostat, Glossary: Livestock
Unit – 2 EnvProtAct 1994)

# PLEASE NOTE: The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry state - “Poultry farming consists of farming a total of
more than 1000 birds for: producing eggs; rearing hatchlings, starter pullets or layers; rearing birds for meat, including: chickens,
ducks, geese, guineafowl and turkeys.” When Melsted Park has more than 1000 birds it will then come within the definition of
Environmentally Relevant Activity (ERA)4 (Poultry farming) under the Environmental Protection Regulation 2008 (EP


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