Appendix C - Code Assessment

Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands Overlay Code


                                                          Editor's Note—Any clearing of vegetation also needs to
                                                          meet the outcomes of the Earthworks Code and
                                                          the Water Quality and Drainage Code.




PO7                                                       No acceptable outcome provided.                            PO7 – Not Applicable
Vegetation within 400 metres of the full ponded water
within Lake Macdonald is retained.

PO8                                                       AO8.1                                                      AO8.1 – Not Applicable
Development on land adjacent to                           Development adjacent to                                    This outcome relates to creating public access along
a waterway or wetland maintains appropriate extent of     a waterway or wetland provides that:                       significant waterways that would be incorporated as
public access to waterways and wetlands and minimises                                                                reserves.
edge effects.                                              a)   no new lots directly back onto a riparian buffer
                                                                area; and
                                                           b)   new public roads are located between a riparian
                                                                buffer area or riparian zone and the proposed
                                                                development area.




Water hydrology Table 8.2.2.3. - Criteria for assessable development (part)

Performance outcomes                                      Acceptable solutions                                       Assessment
Surface and ground water hydrology

PO9                                                       AO9.1                                                      AO9.1 – Complies
Development ensures that the natural surface water and    Development does not impact on the natural surface         The proposed subdivision does not propose any works
ground water hydrologic regimes of waterways,             water or groundwater hydrologic regimes and this is        that would impact on the hydrologic regime on the
wetlands and hydrologically-sensitive plant communities   facilitated by:                                            property.
are not adversely impacted.
                                                           a)   avoiding or minimising channelization, redirection
Editor's Note—Groundwater dependent ecosystems                  or interruption of flow;