06/1354 - Response to Information Request [As Published] · 132006.1354

VEGETATION ASSESSMENT
LOT 21 RP 839106 BOREEN POINT NOOSA SHIRE

 

SUMMARY

Terra Firma Environmental Consultancy & Landscape Design has been engaged by
P&S Pty. Ltd. to undertake an assessment of vegetation on 1 Laguna Street, Boreen
Point. The site is described as Lot 21 on RP’839106. The assessment was conducted in
response to Noosa Council letter to client P&S Pty. Ltd. Dated 24 August 2006.
(Ref: 2006/1354).

Assessment of the subject site was conducted on March 1*. 2007. The study focused on
bushland existing on proposed lot 8. The main method employed was to traverse the site
from tree to tree (identifying larger tree species ie.>300DBH). During the survey other
native vegetation were also noted along ‘with weed species. Appendix 1 tables the trees
and their particulars while figure 1 shows proposed layout and identified tree tocations.

The existing vegetation community may be described as a mostly closed Eucalypt forest
with a patchy understorey mix of tree regeneration and shrub species. Large habitat trees
either dead or alive with multiple hollows or nesting sites were not observed.

The superseded Planning Scheme, section 11.6 Open Space & Environmental Issues has
portions of the site mapped as Open Space -— Conservation & Waterway Protection, refer
to Figure 2.

These mapped portions are closely aligned to proposed buffers therefore generally
upholding the intent of the schemes strategic aim. To achieve the objective of protecting
environmental values, environmental covenants should be placed on these retained
portions of vegetation.

 

TERRA FIRMA LANDSCAPES . * March. 2007°
Environmental Consultancy & Landscape Design