Planning Application

Performance outcomes                        Acceptable outcomes                                               Response   Comment
                                               Innovation and the Arts, 2014.
                                            OR

                                            AO7.3 The application is a development application                N/A        The proposed development does not involve vegetation
                                            where a local government is the assessment manager.                          clearing.

Table 8.1.9: Thinning
Performance outcomes                        Acceptable outcomes                                               Response   Comment
Clearing limited to specific regional ecosystems
PO1 Clearing for the purpose of thinning  No acceptable outcome is prescribed.                                N/A        The proposed development does not involve vegetation
does not occur in the regional                                                                                           clearing.
ecosystems listed in Table 6, except
where clearing is solely for removing
native plants not naturally occurring
within the regional ecosystem.
Retained vegetation density
PO2 Clearing must retain a density of       AO2.1 The vegetation density is consistent with a                 N/A        The proposed development does not involve vegetation
vegetation consistent with the natural      representative reference site of the same regional                           clearing.
floristic composition of the regional       ecosystem.
ecosystem.                                  OR

                                            AO2.2 The vegetation density is consistent with the               N/A        The proposed development does not involve vegetation
                                            natural floristic composition of the regional ecosystem as                   clearing.
                                            demonstrated by, bio condition benchmarks for regional
                                            ecosystem condition assessment, the Regional
                                            Ecosystem Description Database and supplementary
                                            data, or the Queensland Herbarium.
Wetlands
PO3 Maintain vegetation associated with     AO3.1 Mechanical clearing does not occur within 20                N/A        The proposed development does not involve vegetation
any natural wetland to protect:             metres of a natural wetland.                                                 clearing.
(1) water quality by filtering sediments,
    nutrients and other pollutants
(2) aquatic habitat
(3) terrestrial habitat.

Watercourses and drainage features
PO4 Maintain vegetation associated with     AO4.1 Mechanical clearing does not occur within 20                N/A        The proposed development does not involve vegetation
any watercourse or drainage feature to      metres from the defining bank of a watercourse or


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