Biodiversity Overlay Review

ecologically important areas to be    complements and supports              restore and protect, in perpetuity,
restored and enhanced through:        ecologically important areas by:      waterway and wetland values by
                                                                            providing rehabilitated recharge
(a)   designing landscaped            (a)   utilising local native          areas, improved ecosystem
      areas to complement                   species;                        function, habitat restoration of
      and enhanceexisting             (b)   utilising suitable              aquatic and riparian areas and
      vegetation and ecological             plant species                   provide additional polishing and
      linkages;                             identified in                   cleaning of nutrients entering the
                                            PSP2                            waterway systems.
(b)   removing species likely
      to displace native flora              Landscaping;
      species ordegrade               (c)   restoring degraded              The Revegetation and
      fauna habitat;                        ecosystems to achieve a         Rehabilitation Management Plan
(c)   replanting and                        functional ecosystem state      will adequately address this
      rehabilitating degraded               that requires minimal           performance outcome and
      habitat;                              human                           suitable conditions can be
(d)   replacing any vegetation              intervention;                   applied to ensure that all works
      removed with suitable                                                 associated with the Revegetation
                                      (d)   replicating adjacent
      local nativespecies;                                                  and Rehabilitation Management
                                            remnant habitats of
                                                                            Plan is endorsed through an
(e)    providing for fauna habitat;         the same type,
       and                                                                  operational works permit.
                                            including the
avoiding the planting of pest               understorey
plant species.                              vegetation;                     Complies.
                                      (e)   creating or enhancing
                                            linkages between existing
                                            habitats;
                                      (f)   avoiding the use of
                                            pest plant species
                                            listed in PSP2 ­
                                            Landscaping;
                                      (g)   planting riparian zones to
                                            filter stormwater run­off,
                                            stabilisesoil and provide
                                            for wildlife habitat; and
                                      (h)   providing ground and
                                            arboreal structures for
                                            fauna, which may include
                                            ground      depressions,
                                            rocks, hollows, nesting
                                            boxes and in­stream
                                            habitat.

                                      AO10.2
                                      Vegetation cleared is replaced
                                      with:
                                            (a)         plantings of
                                            equivalent area that
                                            replicate the floristic
                                            structure of the vegetation
                                            removed; or
                                      (b)   where this is not possible
                                            due to the characteristics of
                                            the site and the
                                            development, plantings
                                            twice the number of the
                                            removed trees and plants.


                                      Editor’s Note — Revegetation
                                      and rehabilitation works are to be