2 David Low Way - Town Planning Report - Urban Systems Pty Ltd

 Table 8 SARA Pre-lodgement meeting summary
 Matter and details                  SARA comment                          Applicant response
 Matter of State Environmental       At point 3 on page 3 of the Pre-      MSES status is addressed in
 Significance applying to the land   lodgement minutes it is mentioned     s3.2.3.2 of the Ecological and
 (MSES).                             that:                                 Bushfire Assessment Report in
                                     “The vegetated area on proposed       Attachment 2. The assessment
                                     Lot 711 will be retained to protect   notes that:
                                     Burgess Creek. This area on the       “This suggestion has been
                                     northern portion of the site has      investigated and it has been
                                     been identified as MSES –             determined that this particular
                                     Regulated vegetation (wetland).       MSES does not apply to the Site
                                     This MSES relates to a regional       for the following reasons:
                                     ecosystem that intersects with a
                                     wetland shown on the vegetation       a) the regulated vegetation that
                                     management wetlands map. This            occurs on the Site is not a
                                     is a result of updated MSES              wetland regional ecosystem
                                     mapping that was not available at        and there are no wetland
                                     the time of the pre-lodgement            areas on the Site, apart from a
                                     meeting on 30 June 2017.”                narrow fringe of wetland
                                                                              associated with Burgess
                                                                              Creek; and
                                                                           b) in any event, Section 5 of
                                                                              the Environmental       Offsets
                                                                              Regulation 2014 effectively
                                                                              excludes”a regional
                                                                              ecosystem that intersects with
                                                                              an area shown as a wetland on
                                                                              the vegetation management
                                                                              wetlands map (to the extent of
                                                                              the intersection)” from being a
                                                                              MSES if located within an
                                                                              Urban Area and the Site is an
                                                                              Urban Area.”




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