Planning Application

                                                                                                                                                  Response column key:
                                                                                                                                                       Achieved
                                                                                                                                                      P/S Performance solution
8.1        Queensland vegetation management state code                                                                                                N/A Not applicable
Table 8.1.3: General
Performance outcomes                      Acceptable outcomes                                             Response   Comment
Clearing to reasonably avoid and minimise impacts
PO1 Clearing only occurs where the      No acceptable outcome is prescribed.                                        It is acknowledged that the proposed new boundary will
applicant has demonstrated that the                                                                                  dissect a small portion of native vegetation area. It is
development has first reasonably                                                                                     considered that the boundary realignment results in a more
avoided, and then reasonably minimised                                                                               favourable environmental outcome as less existing on-site
the impacts of development.                                                                                          vegetation will be traversed by a boundary.

                                                                                                                     In this regard, the proposal results in a logical boundary
                                                                                                                     realignment which consolidates existing rural land by
                                                                                                                     locating one of the existing dwellings within proposed Lot 2
                                                                                                                     and creating a larger land title which will contain the existing
                                                                                                                     ecological site features and the remaining dwelling.
Clearing on land in particular circumstances
PO2 Clearing in an area must not be       No acceptable outcome is prescribed.                            N/A        The proposed development does not involve vegetation
inconsistent with or impact on any of the                                                                            clearing.
following unless a better environmental
outcome can be achieved:
(1) a declared area, or
(2) an exchange area, or
(3) unlawfully cleared area, or
(4) a restoration notice, or
(5) an enforcement notice under the
    Sustainable Planning Act 2009
    issued for a vegetation clearing
    offence, or
(6) a compliance notice containing
    conditions about the restoration of
    vegetation, or
(7) a Land Act notice, or
(8) a trespass notice if the trespass
    related act under the Land Act 1994
    for the notice is the clearing of


State development assessment provisions                           Module 8 — Native vegetation clearing                              8.1 Queensland vegetation management state code
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