Appendix B - Code Assessment

Noosa Plan 2020: Amendment 3
Part 8 Overlays \ 8.2 Overlay codes \ 8.2.2 Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands
Overlay Code



                                                                                                                    No recreational facilities are proposed.
 PO7                                                       No acceptable outcome provided.                          PO7 - Not applicable.
 Vegetation within 400 metres of the full ponded water                                                              The site is not located within 400 metres of the full
 within Lake Macdonald is retained.                                                                                 ponded water within Lake Macdonald.

 PO8                                                       AO8.1                                                    AO8.1 – Performance Outcome
 Development on land adjacent to a waterway or             Development adjacent to a waterway or wetland            The proposal is a rural residential subdivision and
 wetland maintains appropriate extent of public access     provides that:                                           does not create an urban public access interface to a
 to waterways and wetlands and minimises edge              (a) no new lots directly back onto a riparian buffer     waterway or wetland. While some proposed lots
 effects.                                                        area; and                                          contain mapped riparian buffer areas, future dwelling
                                                           (b) new public roads are located between a riparian      envelopes are located away from these areas and
                                                                 buffer area or riparian zone and the proposed      no development or clearing is proposed within the
                                                                 development area.                                  waterway corridor. No new public roads are
                                                                                                                    proposed between the riparian buffer and
                                                                                                                    development area. PO8 is achieved because the
                                                                                                                    proposal maintains the existing rural residential
                                                                                                                    interface, avoids direct impacts to waterways and
                                                                                                                    wetlands, and minimises edge effects by locating
                                                                                                                    house site areas outside riparian buffer areas.
 Surface and ground water hydrology

 PO9                                                       AO9.1                                                    AO9.1 - Complies.
 Development ensures that the natural surface water        Development does not impact on the natural surface       The proposal does not involve channelisation,
 and ground water hydrologic regimes of waterways,         water or groundwater hydrologic regimes and this is      redirection or interruption of natural surface water
 wetlands and hydrologically-sensitive plant               facilitated by:                                          flows. Future stormwater and effluent disposal can
 communities are not adversely impacted.                   (a) avoiding or minimising channelization, redirection   be designed within each lot to avoid contaminants
 Editor's Note—Groundwater dependent ecosystems are               or interruption of flow;                          entering groundwater, including through site-specific
 identified on Queensland Government Wetland Info mapping. (b) avoiding groundwater extraction;                     wastewater design at the building stage.
                                                           (c) maintaining groundwater recharge and discharge
                                                                  processes;
                                                           (d) maintaining natural groundwater fluctuations;
                                                           (e) avoiding causing ingress of saline water into
                                                                  freshwater aquifers of wetlands; and
                                                           (f) avoiding contaminants entering groundwater
                                                                  (e.g. from runoff, effluent disposal).

 Rehabilitation of ecologically important areas


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