2018-07-10 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   10 JULY 2018




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PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                      10 JULY 2018

           COUNCIL POLICY — ENVIRONMENT LEVY POLICY.

           The allocation of Levy revenue will be limited to the following three-priman-couteut categories:
           1.    A    isiti    f Envi        tally Significant    Land
           The acquisition of environmentally significant land (or an interest in the land) shall be part of a wider
           strategy for landscape protection and preservation/enhancement of biodiversity in the Noosa Shire.
           One or more of the following approaches may result in land purchases:
           e _ Landholders contacting Council with an offer to sell;
           e   Council contacting owners of high priority parcels of land with offers to purchase;
     |     e    Purchasing land that’s already for sale on the open market;_and
           e   Seeking expressions of interest from owners interested in selling their land.

           Determining which properties might be purchased shall be achieved by -compiling-aguided by a
           Conservation Land Plan-Preferred Acquisition-List which identifies significance properties of interest
           and _ criteria by which they will be assessed. Council_has will established an Environment Levy
           Working Group _(ELWG) to develop and review the plan, undertake assessment of properties for
           purchase and provide recommendations to Council on the purchase for environmental purposes. Hist
           :      iderati    £ the followi   iorities:
            Biodi    ity Attrib

          attributes that warrant high-level protection. } } =
            Regional &           RE)  Att

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           or Near ‘Threatened under the Cuesdeland Wature Conservation Act 1902 andthe. Nature

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           Value for Money
          Thetand represents good value for money
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