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




 PO10                                                      AO10.1                                                       AO10.1- Not applicable.
 Development provides for ecologically important areas     Landscaping and rehabilitation complements and               The proposal relies on avoidance and retention of
 to be restored and enhanced through:                      supports ecologically important areas by:                    ecologically important areas rather than rehabilitation
 (a) designing landscaped areas to complement and          (a) utilising local native species;                          works. No substantial vegetation clearing or riparian
       enhance existing vegetation and ecological          (b) utilising suitable plant species identified in PSP2      disturbance is proposed. PO10 is achieved because
       linkages;                                                Landscaping;                                            ecologically important areas are retained, future
 (b) removing species likely to displace native flora      (c) restoring degraded ecosystems to achieve a               development is directed to cleared or low ecological
       species or degrade fauna habitat;                        functional ecosystem state that requires minimal        value areas, and the proposal does not preclude
 (c) replanting and rehabilitating degraded habitat;            human intervention;                                     future native landscaping or rehabilitation where
 (d) replacing any vegetation removed with suitable        (d) replicating adjacent remnant habitats of the same        appropriate.
       local native species;                                    type, including the understorey vegetation;
 (e) providing for fauna habitat; and                      (e) creating or enhancing linkages between existing
 (f) avoiding the planting of pest plant species.               habitats;
                                                           (f) avoiding the use of pest plant species listed in
                                                                PSP2 - Landscaping;
                                                           (g) planting riparian zones to filter stormwater run-
                                                                off, stabilise soil and provide for wildlife habitat;
                                                                and
                                                           (h) providing ground and arboreal structures for
                                                                fauna, which may include ground depressions,
                                                                rocks, hollows, nesting boxes and in-stream
                                                                habitat.
                                                           AO10.2
                                                           Vegetation cleared is replaced with:
                                                           (a) plantings of equivalent area that replicate the          AO10.2 - Not applicable.
                                                                floristic structure of the vegetation removed; or       No ecologically important vegetation is proposed to
                                                           (b) where this is not possible due to the                    be cleared as a result of the development.
                                                                characteristics of the site and the development,
                                                                plantings twice the number of the removed trees
                                                                and plants.
                                                           Editor’s Note — Revegetation and rehabilitation works are
                                                           to be carried out in accordance with an approved
                                                           Revegetation and Rehabilitation Management Plan, as
                                                           referred to in PSP3 Ecological assessment guidelines.

 Koala habitat protection and enhancement

 PO11                                                      AO11.1                                                       AO11.1 - Complies.
                                                                                                                        The proposal adopts a koala-sensitive design

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