Planning Application

Performance outcomes                        Acceptable outcomes                                              Response   Comment
protect:                                    drainage feature.                                                           clearing.
(1) bank stability by protecting against
    bank erosion
(2) water quality by filtering sediments,
    nutrients and other pollutants
(3) aquatic habitat
(4) terrestrial habitat.

Soil erosion
PO5 Clearing does not result in soil        AO5.1 Mechanical clearing must:                                  N/A        The proposed development does not involve vegetation
erosion stemming from:                                                                                                  clearing.
                                            (1) retain 50per cent of the ground cover (dead or alive)
(1) mass movement, gully erosion, rill          in each 50 by 50 metre (0.25 hectare) area
    erosion, sheet erosion, tunnel
    erosion, stream bank erosion, wind      (2) not occur on slopes in excess of 10 per cent.
    erosion, or scalding
(2) any associated loss of chemical,
    physical or biological fertility —
    including, but not limited to water
    holding capacity, soil structure,
    organic matter, soil biology, and
    nutrients
within or outside the lot(s) that are the
subject of the application.
Conserving remnant vegetation that are regional ecosystems
PO6 Clearing of vegetation:             AO6.1 Thinning must retain mature trees and habitat                  N/A        The proposed development does not involve vegetation
                                        trees.                                                                          clearing.
(1) maintains the natural floristic     AND
    composition and range of sizes of
    each species of the regional        AO6.2 Thinning must retain immature trees to:                        N/A        The proposed development does not involve vegetation
    ecosystem evenly spaced across the                                                                                  clearing.
                                        (1) return the immature tree density to a more typical
    application area
                                             level
(2) does not remove habitat trees.
                                        (2) retain representatives of all the species that occur in
                                             the regional ecosystem in about the proportion to
                                             what would normally exist



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