2014-01-28 Planning & Organisation Committee Item 4.4 Attachment 1

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           Noosa Council
Temporary Local Planning Instrument
(Protected Vegetation Overlay) 2014

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                                      Noosa Council
                             Temporary Local Planning Instrument
                             (Protected Vegetation Overlay) 2014

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   Section 2                 Vegetation Assessment
  ay      Vegetation description                                                       !
   Vegetation consists of some cleared land (mostly exotic grasses), but the majority is natural
  | forest regrowth averaging 30-50 years old in better arcas, ‘The forest is in relatively bealthy
   condition with good natural regeneration and, in general, little weed invasion that seriously
   threatens biodiversity (Lantana does become u problem on lower slopes).            |
  | Diversity is high with over 200 native species recorded on the propesty during preliminary
   flora surveys, Sucolyptus acmenoides (White Mahogany / Yellow Stringy-bark), &     |
   propingua (Grey Gum) and £siderophloia (Grey tonbark) dominate much of the canopy.
   Also common are Lophostemon confertus (Brush Box), E. grandis (Flooded Gum), E
  | microcorys (Tallowwood) and Corymbia intermedia (Pink Bloodwood). Understorey varies
   from sparse to dense, with open forest or dry sclerophyll, on upper slopes merging into wet |
   sclerophyll (myrtaceous cmergents with 3 rainforest understorey) in gullies. A Flora Survey
   with species abundance is attached (Appendix 1).
   Remnant vegetation in Queenstand is catcgorised into Regional Ecosystems (EPA Qid  |
   Herbarium — Mapping Release SEQ 2004 Version 5). This is the most accepted method of
   identifying ecosystem types, taking both vegetation and geology into account. Two EPA
 |  maps showing ‘remnant’ vegetation are attached. One is a landscape scale and the other
   zooms to the property scale. Lot | is highlighted with a bold black boundary for context. |
 | The REs described are:
    12.3.2
    Wet scicrophyl! on alluvium including Excalyptus grandis +/- E microcorys with rainforest
    understorey fringing streams (12.3.2).
 | Conservation status — Of Concern
    12.412
    Wet sclerophy!l on metasediments znd interbedded volcanics including Eucalyptus grandis,
    E. microcorys, E. acmenvides and Lophostemon confertus with a rainforest understorey.
 | Conservation status — No concer at present
    12.113
   Open forest generally with Eucalyptus siderophioia an’ E propingua +\- E. microcorys, |
   Lophosiemon confertus, Corymbia intermedia, E. acmenoides and E_ tereticornis. V ize forest
 |  species with E grandis often in gullies.
   Conservation status — No concern at present                                       |
     12.11.10
    Dry rainforest on metasediments - Notophyl! and notophy!l / microphyll vine forest +/-
_   Arowcaria cunninghamii,
   Conservation status — No concer at present                                        |
    Field asscasment supports EPA classification of the first three REs and much of it is
    Classified as remnant under the Vegetation Management Act (1999), 12.3.2 lines the creek,
    merging into 12.11.2 up the gullies, merging into 12.11.3 up the slopes. While 12.11.10 is not |
    well represented on the property, some elements of the ecosystem are present (eg abundance
    of indicative species in understorey). Given long cnough with fire exclusion, the slow
|   transition of vegetation would favour this forest type.
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