DERM Information Request REC11/0145

    Department of Environment
    and Resource Management
                                                                                                             Guideline
                                            Reconfiguring a lot in a coastal management district

   2)    One copy of a plan or plans at a scale not smaller than 1:1000 showing the existing (and proposed
         finished) levels of the land to be subdivided and that area of land between the land to be subdivided and
         the line of mean high water spring tides. The levels are to be taken at the points of intersection of a 25
         metre grid related to the Real Property boundaries and to be in metres related to Australian Height
         Datum. The plan or plans to be certified by a licensed surveyor with the date of survey shown.

    3)   The location of the proposed development in relation to the boundary of the coastal management
         district.

   4)    The location of the storm tide natural hazard management area adopted by local government or if local
         government have not adopted a storm tide natural hazard management area, the plan should illustrate
         an alternative area subject to storm tide inundations.

Information addressing key coastal plan policies
    5)   Policy 2.2.2 Erosion prone areas

         •    Specify the existing and proposed tenure and zoning of land within designated erosion prone areas,
              if applicable.

         •    If it is not proposed to surrender the land within the erosion prone area to the State, justification
              should be provided.6

         •    Investigate the effect that changes in tidal flow characteristics in the vicinity of the development will
              have on the adjacent coast.

    6)   Policy 2.2.4 Coastal Hazards

         •    Details of the severity of the storm tide inundation hazard.
         •    Details of how the proposal is compatible with the nature and relative severity of the storm tide
              hazard.

         •    Details of how the development achieves outcomes 1 and 2 of the guideline Mitigating the adverse
              impacts of storm tide inundation.
    7)   Policy 2.3.1 Future need for access

         •    Report on the measures proposed to provide public access to any newly created beaches or
              foreshore areas, including measures proposed to safeguard the stability of frontal dune areas.

         •    Provide details of whether the development will result in net loss of access to the foreshore or public
              usability of coastal waters and, if so, demonstrate why the loss may be acceptable.

    8)   Policy 2.4.1 Water quality management

         •    Provide details of how the development will or may affect water quality of any adjacent coastal
              waters including coastal waterways.




5 Where local government have not adopted a storm tide natural hazard management area, the designed storm
tide event should be indicated on the plans. However, where local government have not undertaken detailed
studies to provide information about the areas subject to storm tide inundation, the plans should indicate the
default area which is below highest astronomical tide + 1.5m. For more information refer to the guideline
Mitigating the adverse impacts of storm tide inundation and the fact sheet Development applications within the
Storm Tide Natural Hazard Management Area
6 DERM can require as part of its concurrence response that the land within the erosion prone area be
surrendered to the State as a condition of approving the development.

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