2015-09-15 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                              15 SEPTEMBER 2015


      SEQ Koala Conservation State Planning Regulatory Provisions
The site is within a Koala Assessable Development Area mapped under the SEQ Koala
Conservation SPRP and is subject to the assessment provisions of Table 7. An assessment
against the SPRP Table 7 is provided below.




     Table 7, Column 2 - Assessment Criteria        Assessment

     1. To the extent the premises is outside the   Not Applicable.
        Urban Footprint and not in an urban area
                                                    The development is inside the urban footprint
        under a planning scheme, site design
                                                    and in an identified urban area under The Noosa
        does not result in the clearing of non-
                                                    Plan.
        juvenile koala habitat trees in areas of
        bushland habitat.


     2. To the extent the premises is inside the    Can Comply.
        Urban Footprint, site design must avoid
                                                    The development will involve the clearing of
        clearing non-juvenile koala habitat trees
                                                    approximately 7.2ha of mapped Koala Bushland
        in areas of bushland habitat, with any
                                                    Habitat to facilitate the proposed footprint. The
        unavoidable clearing minimised and
                                                    Noosa Civic Master Plan anticipates clearing
        offset in accordance with the Offsets for
                                                    within the proposed development site. The
        Net Gain of Koala Habitat in South East
                                                    development proposes the clearing is offset in
        Queensland Policy at a ratio of five new
                                                    accordance with the Koala SPRP.
        koala habitat trees for every one non-
        juvenile koala habitat tree removed or an
        equivalent cash contribution.


     3. Site design must avoid clearing non-        Can Comply.
        juvenile koala habitat trees in areas of
                                                    The development will involve the clearing of
        high value rehabilitation habitat, and
                                                    some mapped Koala Rehabilitation Habitat. The
        medium value rehabilitation habitat, with
                                                    Noosa Business Centre Master Plan anticipates
        any unavoidable clearing minimised and
                                                    clearing within the proposed development site.
        offset in accordance with the Offsets for
                                                    The development proposes the clearing is
        Net Gain of Koala Habitat in South East
                                                    financially offset in accordance with the Koala
        Queensland Policy at a ratio of five new
                                                    SPRP.
        koala habitat trees for every one non-
        juvenile koala habitat tree removed or an
        equivalent cash contribution.


     4. Site design provides safe koala             Generally complies.
        movement opportunities as appropriate
                                                    Koala movement opportunities are limited in the
        to the development type and habitat
                                                    east-west direction across the site due to the
        connectivity values of the site
                                                    shopping centre expansion but are maintained in
        determined by reference to the factors
                                                    the north-south direction.        Landscaping
        for consideration in Schedule 2.
                                                    provision and vegetation retention aspects can
                                                    be conditioned to comply.




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