07/2555 - Operational Works - Drainage Stormwater Vegetation [As Published] · 142007.2555

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Notice
Advice Agency Response

 

SUBJECT LAND:
Lot 888 Plan: SP186498

 

 

 

 

Response to Development Application

‘The EPA, acting as'an advice agency under the integrated Plenning.Act 1997, provides the following advice to
the application as detalisd above.

EPA advice

The EPA is triggered on the fallewing grounds:.

¢ Heritage — the site ts located adjacsnt to:a registered place (Halse Lodge) under the Queensiand
Heritaga Act 1992, There will be no impact an heritage significance. .

* ~—Watlande'— the site Is located withiin.100 metres (m) ofa wetland, There’ wil be ne Impact on the
referable wetland (described as regional ecosystem 12.2.5 containing patustrine wetland) tocated
approximately 90m to the south-east of the site.

© Conservation Estate — the site ts located'within 100m of Noosa National Park. The EPA recommends
that development |s adequately buffered from the park Boundary, and that light and nolse issues are
appropriately ameliorated. Consultation with officers of the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service
(QPWS) Is recommended to ensure management objectives of the Noosa National Park including fire
management, emergency service access and pest contrals are met. A QPWS ‘Good Neighbour Policy’
may be:of assigtanca: http: host. Id.qov.qu/stay she ¢ E

Other issues;

». The site is mapped as Urban Koala Area. The appfication should be assessed against the development
Criteria for urban koala ‘area in Table 12 of tha Naturé Cansarvafion (Koala) Conservation Plan 2008.

© The siteis located within. medium bushfire hazard risk and should comply with State Planning Policy 1/03
— Mitigating the Adverse Impacts cf Flood, Bushfire and Landslide.

* The site is listed an the EPA’s Environmental Managemant Ragister. A Site Management.Plan (SMP) has

been in force since 15 April 2003 for the management of arsenic contamination. SMP compliance includes
twica yearly monitoring of the contaminated areas and ‘appropriats record keeping.

A biodivorsity planning assessment Identified the following values on the subjact land:

+ Two flora spaces were Identified that are described as ‘conservation significant’ records: Cryptocarya
fostida, listed as vulnerable In Schedule 3. and Sympiocos harroldi, listed as rare in Schedule 4 of the
Nature Consarvation (Widlifa) Regulation 2006. Mitigation of Impacts is recommended in accordance with
Section 19 and 24 of the Nalure Conservation (Wildlife) Regulation 2008,

« The site is adjacent to core habital for vulnerable species (mainly acid frogs) including !and identified as
containing State biodiversity significance. The extira site contains habitat identified as'non-care for Litoria
cooloolensis. The site is located within a bloregional wildlife corridor. buffer,

The EPA supports the Intention of Lot 904.to remain undeveloped and retained aS open space under the
guardianship of Noosa Shira Council.

 

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