Response to Info Request - Attachment 6a - Ecological Assessment Part 1 MCU18-0015 & RAL18-0015 · MCU18/0015

                           Ecological Assessment – Attunga Heights




1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
JWA Pty Ltd have been engaged by Novato Group to complete an updated Ecological
Assessment for land at 27 Attunga Heights, Noosa Hill.

JWA Pty Ltd previously completed an Ecological Assessment for the subject site (JWA 2016).
An application has been lodged for a residential development on the site and Noosa Council
has subsequently issued an Information Request. Item 14 of the Information Request
requires an updated Ecological Assessment over the site with recent field data and current
mapping and database records and addressing current statutory requirements. This
updated Ecological Assessment has been prepared to satisfy this condition.

The assessment has involved the following:
   •   determining the suite of Commonwealth and State listed threatened and regionally
       or locally significant flora and fauna species that occur in the locality from
       literature and database records;
   •   ground truthing vegetation communities and determining their conservation status
       in accordance with the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines
       (DNRM) Regional Ecosystem Framework (Vegetation Management Act [VMA, 1999]);
   •   assessing the likelihood of occurrence of threatened flora and fauna species on the
       subject site;
   •   searching for and recording threatened and regionally or locally significant flora
       and fauna species;
   •   assessing habitat provided by the site in the context of the surrounding area;
   •   assessing the corridor values of the site at a local and regional scale;
   •   assessing the potential impacts of the proposed development on ecological values
       and determining appropriate mitigation measures;
   •   addressing relevant statutory requirements regarding impacts to flora, fauna and
       ecological communities; and
   •   addressing compliance with relevant development assessment codes and policies.


1.2 The Subject Site
The site is located at 27 Attunga Heights, Noosa Hill, and is formally described as Lot 27
on RP89506 (FIGURE 1). The site is approximately 1.805 ha in area. An aerial photograph
of the site is shown in FIGURE 2. An unnamed creek traverses the site in a generally north–
south direction.

Adjacent to the eastern boundary is Viridian Noosa Resort and Apartments. To the west is
existing residential and resort development on Edgar Bennett Avenue and Picture Point
Crescent. A small creek is present on the eastern boundary at the base of a steep



Job No: Q12038/RW3                       JWA Pty Ltd                                     6