2021-06-08 Planning & Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                         8 JUNE 2021


3.3. Statutory Instruments – Planning Scheme
The application must be assessed against each of the following codes to the extent they are relevant
to the development:
     Rural Residential Zone Code;
     Reconfiguring a Lot Code;
     Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands Overlay Code;
     Bushfire Hazard Overlay Code;
     Flood Hazard Overlay; and
     Works Codes.
Locality Provisions
The subject site is located in the Cooroibah Locality and is zoned Rural Residential. The proposed
development is required to follow a code assessable application process.
The pertinent issues arising from the proposal relate to the following provisions within the applicable
codes:
Biodiversity, Wetlands and Waterways Overlay Code:
8.2.2.2 Purpose and overall outcomes
1.    The purpose of the Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands overlay code is to protect,
      rehabilitate and enhance ecologically important areas and improve connectivity and ecological
      linkages across Noosa Shire.
2.    The overall outcomes sought for the Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands overlay code are:
      a.    The natural resources and ecosystem values of Noosa Shire are protected and
            enhanced including ecologically important areas and land and environmental values of
            scenic, aesthetic, cultural, educational, recreational, scientific, economic and social
            value.
      b.    Development is designed, sited, constructed and operated in a way that avoids adverse
            impacts on ecologically important areas, ecological systems and processes.
      c.    Development design and layout provides for ecological connectivity across the
            landscape through the protection, rehabilitation and enhancement of
            native vegetation and ecological linkages.
      d.    Ecological linkages and riparian vegetation are conserved, managed, enhanced and
            rehabilitated to protect and improve biodiversity, ecosystem health, landscape stability
            and resilience.
      e.    Development design and layout provides for the protection and establishment of
            appropriate buffers to waterways, wetlands, native vegetation and significant fauna
            habitat.
      f.    The terrestrial and aquatic native flora and fauna and their habitats are protected and
            enhanced.
      g.    Development and its associated landscaping provides for the rehabilitation
            of ecologically important areas, degraded ecosystems and habitats to achieve a
            functional and healthy ecosystem state that requires minimal human intervention.
      h.    Development is designed, sited, constructed and operated to avoid or minimise adverse
            impacts on koalas and their habitat and to provide for connectivity and safety for the long
            term viability of the koala population.
      i.    In urban areas, biodiversity values are protected and enhanced to assist with ecosystem
            health, flora and fauna, urban amenity and quality of life.

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