SARA RFI - Ecological Assessment Report

Ecological Assessment Report – Appendices
14 Serenity Close, Noosa Heads

 Performance outcomes                                       Acceptable outcomes                                         Proposed solution
 c)    maintaining and enhancing wildlife corridors and     AO6.2
       connectivity along watercourses and drainage lines
                                                            Development provides for the rehabilitation of land
       for native fauna movement;
                                                            within:
 d)    avoiding edge effects and damage from adjacent
                                                            a) a riparian buffer area;
       land uses;
                                                            b) a wetland area; and
 e)    maintaining stream integrity and bank stability by
                                                            c) 10 metres either side of the centre line of any other
       minimising bank erosion and slumping;
                                                                 waterway identified on a Biodiversity, Waterways
 f)    maintaining water quality through filtering
                                                                 and Wetlands Overlay Map.
       sediments, nutrients and other pollutants; and
 g)    removing pest species and replacing them with
       local native species.                                AO6.3
                                                            Recreational facilities (eg. playgrounds, pergolas,
                                                            barbeques) are setback a minimum of 10 metres from
                                                            the top of the bank of a waterway.


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

 PO8                                                        AO8.1                                                       AO8.1

 Development on land adjacent to a waterway or              Development adjacent to a waterway or wetland               Complies. The site and the adjacent waterway are
 wetland maintains appropriate extent of public access      provides that:                                              separated by a public access walkway. The proposed
 to waterways and wetlands and minimises edge effects.      a) no new lots directly back onto a riparian buffer area;   change provides a buffer to adjacent vegetation and
                                                                and                                                     waterway located to the south of the site.
                                                            b) new public roads are located between a riparian
                                                                buffer area or riparian zone and the proposed
                                                                development area.