Tree Removal Decision Notice OPW25 0082 · OPW25/0082

Officer: 	Jamie Gordon
Direct Telephone: 	07 53296151
Our Reference:	OPW25/0082
Your Reference:	N/A
3 June 2025
Denis Gerard O'Connor
PO Box 92
NOOSA HEADS  QLD  4567

[email protected]
Dear Sir,
Decision Notice
Planning Act 2016
I refer to your application and advise that on 3 June 2025, Council decided to approve the application subject to conditions.
Details of the decision are as follows:
application details
Applicant:	Denis Gerard O'Connor
Application No.	OPW25/0082
Street Address:	The Point 204/61 Noosa Springs Dr Noosa Heads Qld 4567
Real Property Description:	GTP 106989, Lot 4 GTP 106989
decision details
Council decided to issue the following type of approval:
Development Permit for Operational Works (Clearing of Vegetation).
This permit approves the pruning of more than 20% of 2 x trees as per application.
currency period
The currency period for this development approval is stated in Condition No. 5 of the Assessment Manager Conditions.
assessment manager conditions
Replanting must be conducted using locally native trees/shrubs on a ratio of one to 1:1 for every tree cleared in a suitable location on the subject property within 1 month of the completion of the approved clearing works, unless extended by written consent.
Prior to felling or pruning, all trees are to be checked for wildlife (i.e. koalas, possums, birds etc.). If wildlife is present, the tree must not be felled or pruned until the wildlife has left the tree.

Vegetation clearing must be undertaken in an environmentally sensitive manner to avoid damaging surrounding vegetation and habitat. Burning off is not an approved method of disposal. Cleared vegetation must be processed by one of the following methods:
Processing through a wood-chipper, used as mulch or milled.
Domestic use as fuel for cooking or heating.
Used for landscaping purposes.
Disposed of in a Council approved tip.
Reproductive components of environmental weed species cleared from the site must not be reused in landscaping. The material is to be removed from the site and disposed of in a Council approved refuse tip.
The Currency Period for this development approval lapses if the use has not commenced within two years from the date of approval, unless an application to extend the currency period is approved.
Yours faithfully,

Jamie Gordon
Development Inspector / Development & Regulation

	Appeal Rights PLANNING ACT 2016 & PLANNING REGULATION 2017

Chapter 6 Dispute resolution
Part 1 Appeal rights
229 Appeals to tribunal or P&E Court
(1)	Schedule 1 of the Planning Act 2016 states –
(a)	Matters that may be appealed to –
(i)	either a tribunal or the P&E Court; or
(ii)	only a tribunal; or
(iii)	only the P&E Court; and
(b)	The person-
(i)	who may appeal a matter (the appellant); and
(ii)	who is a respondent in an appeal of the matter; and
(iii)	who is a co-respondent in an appeal of the matter; and
(iv)	who may elect to be a co-respondent in an appeal of the matter.
(2)	An appellant may start an appeal within the appeal period.
(3)	The appeal period is –
(a)	for an appeal by a building advisory agency – 10 business days after a decision notice for the decision is given to the agency; or
(b)	for an appeal against a deemed refusal – at any time after the deemed refusal happens; or
(c)	for an appeal against a decision of the Minister, under chapter 7, part 4, to register premises or to renew the registration of premises – 20 business days after a notice us published under section 269(3)(a) or (4); or
(d)	for an appeal against an infrastructure charges notice – 20 business days after the infrastructure charges notice is given to the person; or
(e)	for an appeal about a deemed approval of a development application for which a decision notice has not been given – 30 business days after the applicant gives the deemed approval notice to the assessment manager; or
(f)	for any other appeal – 20 business days after a notice of the decision for the matter, including an enforcement notice, is given to the person.
Note –
See the P&E Court Act for the court’s power to extend the appeal period.
(4)	Each respondent and co-respondent for an appeal may be heard in the appeal.
(5)	If an appeal is only about a referral agency’s response, the assessment manager may apply to the tribunal or P&E Court to withdraw from the appeal.
(6)	To remove any doubt. It is declared that an appeal against an infrastructure charges notice must not be about-
(a)	the adopted charge itself; or
(b)	for a decision about an offset or refund-
(i)	the establishment cost of trunk infrastructure identified in a LGIP; or
(ii)	the cost of infrastructure decided using the method included in the local government’s charges resolution.
230 Notice of appeal
(1)	An appellant starts an appeal by lodging, with the registrar of the tribunal or P&E Court, a notice of appeal that-
(a)	is in the approved form; and
(b)	succinctly states the grounds of the appeal.
(2)	The notice of appeal must be accompanied by the required fee.
(3)	The appellant or, for an appeal to a tribunal, the registrar must, within the service period, give a copy of the notice of appeal to –
(a)	the respondent for the appeal; and
(b)	each co-respondent for the appeal; and
(c)	for an appeal about a development application under schedule 1, table 1, item 1 – each principal submitter for the development application; and
(d)	for and appeal about a change application under schedule 1, table 1, item 2 – each principal submitter for the change application; and
(e)	each person who may elect to become a co-respondent for the appeal, other than an eligible submitter who is not a principal submitter in an appeal under paragraph (c) or (d); and
(f)	for an appeal to the P&E Court – the chief executive; and
(g)	for an appeal to a tribunal under another Act – any other person who the registrar considers appropriate.
(4)	The service period is –
(a)	if a submitter or advice agency started the appeal in the P&E Court – 2 business days after the appeal has started; or
(b)	otherwise – 10 business days after the appeal is started.
(5)	A notice of appeal given to a person who may elect to be a co-respondent must state the effect of subsection (6).
(6)	A person elects to be a co-respondent by filing a notice of election, in the approved form, within 10 business days after the notice of appeal is given to the person.
231 Other appeals
(1)	Subject to this chapter, schedule 1 and the P&E Court Act, unless the Supreme Court decides a decision or other matter under this Act is affected by jurisdictional error, the decision or matter is non-appealable.
(2)	The Judicial Review Act 1991, part 5 applies to the decision or matter to the extent it is affected by jurisdictional error.
(3)	A person who, but for subsection (1) could have made an application under the Judicial Review Act 1991 in relation to the decision or matter, may apply under part 4 of that Act for a statement of reasons in relation to the decision or matter.
(4)	In this section –
decision includes-
(a)	conduct engaged in for the purpose of making a decision; and
(b)	other conduct that relates to the making of a decision; and
(c)	the making of a decision or failure to make a decision; and
(d)	a purported decision; and
(e)	a deemed refusal.
non-appealable, for a decision or matter, means the decision or matter-
(a)	is final and conclusive; and
(b)	may not be challenged, appealed against, reviewed, quashed, set aside or called into question in any other way under the Judicial Review Act 1991 or otherwise, whether by the Supreme Court, another court, a tribunal or another entity; and
(c)	is not subject to any declaratory, injunctive or other order of the Supreme Court, another court, a tribunal or another entity on any ground.
232 Rules of the P&E Court
(1)	A person who is appealing to the P&E Court must comply with the rules of the court that apply to the appeal.
(2)	However, the P&E Court may hear and decide an appeal even if the person has not complied with the rules of the P&E Court

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