Planning Application

Performance outcomes                        Acceptable outcomes                                              Response   Comment

                                            (1) it does not involve mechanical clearing
                                            (2) the acid sulfate soils are managed consistent with the
                                                State Planning Policy, Department of State
                                                Development, Infrastructure and Planning, 2014, and
                                                with the Soil Management Guidelines in the
                                                Queensland Acid Sulfate Soil Technical Manual,
                                                Department of Science, Information Technology,
                                                Innovation and the Arts, 2014.
                                            OR

                                            AO14.3 The application is a development application              N/A        The proposal does not involve necessary environmental
                                            where a local government is the assessment manager.                         clearing.


Table 8.1.8: Weed or pest management
Performance outcomes                        Acceptable outcomes                                              Response   Comment
Limits to clearing for weed or pest management
PO1 Clearing is limited to the extent    No acceptable outcome is prescribed                                 N/A        The proposed development does not involve vegetation
necessary to:                                                                                                           clearing.
(1) control non-native plants or declared
    pests, or
(2) provide access for control of non-
    native plants or declared pests if no
    alternative route exists.

Wetlands
PO2 Maintain vegetation associated with     AO2.1 Mechanical clearing does not occur within 5                N/A        The proposed development does not involve vegetation
a natural wetland to protect:               metres of a natural wetland.                                                clearing.
                                            AND
(1) water quality by filtering sediments,
    nutrients and other pollutants          AO2.2 Clearing only occurs:                                      N/A        The proposed development does not involve vegetation
(2) aquatic habitat                         (1) within a 1.5 meter radius from the base of the stem of                  clearing.
                                                individual non-native or declared plants, or
(3) terrestrial habitat.
                                            (2) to the extent necessary to provide access for the
                                                control of the non-native or declared plants.



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