Attachment 3 - Noosa Plan Code Assessment

Performance Outcomes              Acceptable Outcomes                  Response

Services, utilities and           Vegetation planted within the        AO12.1 – 12.7 Not
infrastructure                    easement of an overhead              Applicable
                                  powerline or, where there is no
PO12                              easement, the area of influence      No overhead or
                                  of a powerline, has a mature         underground powerline
Vegetation does not pose a risk
                                  height of no more than 3.5           easements exist on site.
to the safety or reliability of
                                  metres.                              Further, proposed planting
services, utilities or
                                                                       species will not encroach
infrastructure including
                                  AO12.2                               on to any existing services
substations, overhead
                                                                       located overhead or
powerlines, power poles and       Vegetation planted within an         underground
transformers, street lamps,       underground powerline easement
stormwater catchment pits, and    does not have a mature root
underground services and          system in excess of 150
utilities.                        millimetres in depth and is not
                                  located directly over the
                                  powerline.

                                  AO12.3

                                  Regardless of the width of the
                                  easement, vegetation adjoining
                                  easements must be separated
                                  from the power pole or other
                                  infrastructure by a distance at
                                  least equal to the maximum
                                  mature height of the vegetation.

                                  AO12.4

                                  For power lines that connect to a
                                  premises, the height of plant
                                  species at maturity provides for a
                                  2 metre clearance below the
                                  power line.

                                  AO12.5

                                  With the exception of electricity
                                  infrastructure, trees and large
                                  shrubs are located a minimum
                                  of—

                                  4 metres from street lamps;

                                  2 metres from stormwater
                                  catchment pits; and


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