2014-03-25 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda Pages 81-167

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                 25 MARCH 2014


State Planning Regulatory Provisions

The following State Planning Regulatory Provisions (SPRP) apply to the application:
       SEQ Koala Conservation State Planning Regulatory Provisions
       Draft Coastal Protection State Planning Regulatory Provisions

Assessment against each is provided below.
       SEQ Koala Conservation State Planning Regulatory Provisions
The site is within a Koala Assessable Development Area mapped under the SEQ Koala
Conservation SPRP and is subject to the assessment provisions of Table 7.
The application material seeks to assess part of the development (being the collector road linking
precincts 2 and 3 through bushland habitat areas) against the less stringent provisions of Table 4
for community or linear infrastructure development. However, Council officers understand those
provisions apply to works such as rail lines, gas pipelines, and similar major infrastructure
projects and the SPRP does not provide the opportunity to separately assess an urban road
within an urban development application. The Department of Environment and Heritage
Protection provided advice confirming this interpretation in its concurrence response.
An assessment against the SPRP Table 7 is provided below.

    Table 7, Column 2 - Assessment Criteria     Assessment
    1. To the extent the premises is outside    Does Not Comply
       the Urban Footprint and not in an
       urban area under a planning scheme,      The premises is located outside the urban
                                                footprint and not in an urban area under the
       site design does not result in the
                                                planning scheme. The development will
       clearing of non-juvenile koala habitat   result in the clearing of at least 2,418 trees
       trees in areas of bushland habitat.      from Bushland Habitat areas (see App. B
                                                Table 2 of the applicant’s Koala Impact and
                                                Net Benefit Assessment report) on the site
                                                and along Tidswell and Hollett Roads.

    2. To the extent the premises is inside     Not Applicable
       the Urban Footprint, site design must
       avoid clearing non-juvenile koala        The development is not inside the urban
                                                footprint.
       habitat trees in areas of bushland
       habitat, with any unavoidable clearing
       minimised and offset in accordance
       with the Offsets for Net Gain of Koala
       Habitat in South East Queensland
       Policy at a ratio of five new koala
       habitat trees for every one non-
       juvenile koala habitat tree removed or
       an equivalent cash contribution.




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