Planning Application

Performance outcomes                         Acceptable outcomes                                               Response   Comment
    firebreak, road or vehicular track, or                                                                                favourable environmental outcome as less existing on-site
    for constructing necessary built                                                                                      vegetation will be traversed by a boundary.
    infrastructure (each relevant
    infrastructure), where the clearing                                                                                   In this regard, the proposal results in a logical boundary
    cannot reasonably be avoided or                                                                                       realignment which consolidates existing rural land by
    minimised, or                                                                                                         locating one of the existing dwellings within proposed Lot 2
                                                                                                                          and creating a larger land title which will contain the existing
(2) as a natural and ordinary                                                                                             ecological site features and the remaining dwelling.
    consequence of other assessable
    development for which a
    development approval as defined
    under the repealed Integrated
    Planning Act 1997 was given, or a
    development application as defined
    under that Act was made, before
    16 May 2003, or
(3) to ensure public safety, or
(4) for a coordinated project and any
    associated ancillary works—other
    than a coordinated project that
    involves high value agriculture
    clearing, or irrigated high value
    agriculture clearing.

Wetlands
PO2 Maintain the current extent of           AO2.1 Clearing does not occur in or within 100 metres of          N/A        The subject sites do not comprise a wetland.
vegetation associated with any natural       any natural wetland.
wetland to protect:                          OR
(1) water quality by filtering sediments,
                                             AO2.2 Clearing only occurs within 100 metres of any               N/A        The subject sites do not comprise a wetland.
    nutrients and other pollutants           natural wetland where:
(2) aquatic habitat                          (1) the clearing does not occur within 50 metres of the
(3) terrestrial habitat.                         defining bank of any natural wetland, or
                                             (2) the widths stipulated by Table 1 are not exceeded.
                                             OR

                                             AO2.3 Where it can be demonstrated that clearing cannot           N/A        The subject sites do not comprise a wetland.
                                             be reasonably avoided, and the extent of clearing has
                                             been reasonably minimised, an environmental offset is
                                             provided for any significant residual impacts from clearing



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