Planning Response letter to Council Information Request · MCU18/0015

   Item 13 – Provide an independent slope stability assessment and geotechnical report for each of
   the proposed allotments. The report should clearly identify any potential slope stability failure
   mechanisms that apply to each of the allotments. If appropriate, recommendations on measures
   to stabilise the land or maintain stability should be included. The report should clearly set out the
   site specific geotechnical constraints to residential development that apply to each of the
   allotments. Recommendations should be provided on footing design and the geotechnical design
   aspects of any other structures that may be required on the allotments.


   Response – The Geotechnical Report included at Attachment 5 provides recommendations at
   sections 6 and 7 for each of the proposed allotments including recommendations on footing and
   geotechnical design aspects.


   Ecological
   Item 14 – Update the ecological assessment over the site by providing recent field data, using
   current mapping and database records and addressing current statutory requirements.
   Item 15 – Provide a rehabilitation plan which documents the management of the land to
   ecologically restore areas outside the development footprint.


   Response – Included at Attachment 6 is a comprehensive updated Ecological Assessment
   prepared by James Warren and Associates which includes 2018 flora and fauna investigations on
   site. The report provides a comprehensive assessment of all statutory environmental
   requirements at a local, state and federal level. The report concludes that the proposed
   development has been sited on the parts of the land that are considered to have limited ecological
   significance.


   The applicant is committed to rehabilitating the environmental reserve area, however our
   ecological consultant recommends that a rehabilitation plan is more appropriately provided at
   operational works application stage to ensure the rehabilitation recommendations tie in with
   proposed site works once detailed engineering design is complete. Therefore the requirement to
   prepare a rehabilitation plan would be accepted by the applicant as being a reasonable condition
   of any development approval.


   Item 16 – Provide an amended layout, informed by the required revised ecological study, which
   includes the development located at least 10 metre from the top of bank and removes any new lot
   boundaries traversing the creek and 10 metre offset.
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