Biodiversity Overlay Review

                                      carried out in accordance with an
                                      approved Revegetation and
                                      Rehabilitation Management Plan,
                                      as referred to in PSP3 Ecological
                                      assessment guidelines.
PO11                                  AO11.1
Development is designed,              Development design complies             To the extent of extant KHA
constructed and operated to—          with the Koala­sensitive Design         within the mapped areas, the
(a)   protect and enhance             Guideline: A guide to koala             development can be conditioned
      koalas and koala                sensitive design measures for           to comply.
      habitat and avoid               planning and development                The site is outside of a Koala
      adverse impacts;                activities.                             Priority Area but has mapped
(b)   provide measures to                                                     Koala Habitat Areas. The State
      assist the survival of          AO11.2                                  government is a referral agency
      koala populations in the        Development incorporates                for this matter. The State
      area to mitigate any            revegetation and landscaping that       Development Assessment
      potential threats orrisk        provides food, shelter and              Provisions code 25:
      to koalas; and                  movement opportunities for              Development in South East
                                      koalas.                                 Queensland koala habitat areas
(c)   provide for safe and
      appropriate koala                                                       apply. The development meets
      movement acrossthe              AO11.3                                  the purpose of this code is to
      landscape.                      Development is designed to              ensure that development in
                                      maximise and enhance                    South East Queensland:
                                      connectivity between koala habitat      1. results in no net loss of koala
Editor's Note—Koala habitat
                                      trees and ensure safe koala             habitat area
mapping is in Schedule 2
Mapping.                              movement.
                                                                               2. does not contribute to
                                                                              fragmentation of koala habitat
Editor's Note—The Planning            AO11.4
                                                                              areas
Regulation 2017, schedule 10          During construction, measures are
                                                                              3. maintains or improves
statesthat development that           incorporated to not increase the
                                      risk of death or injury to koalas, by   connectivity within and between
interferes with koala habitat, in                                             koala habitat areas to ensure
                                      including safe koala movement
an area that is both a koala          measures, as defined in the             safe koala movement
priority area and a koala habitat     Planning Regulation 2017.               4. is constructed and undertaken
area, is prohibited development
                                                                              in such a way that does not
(subject to the exceptions stated
                                                                              increase the risk of injury to, or
in schedule 10 of the Planning
                                                                              death of koalas
Regulation 2017).
                                                                              5. avoids impacts on matters of
                                                                              state environmental significance,
Editor's Note ­ These
                                                                              and where avoidance is not
performance outcomes and
                                                                              reasonably possible, minimises
acceptableoutcomes apply to:
                                                                              and mitigates impacts and,
(a)   development on land in                                                  provides an offset for significant
      a koala priority area,                                                  residual impacts to matters of
      where the development                                                   state environmental significance
      does not interfere with                                                 that are prescribed
      koala habitat and where                                                 environmental matters.
      the benchmarks are
      additional to and not
      inconsistent with, the                                                  Complies
      assessment benchmarks
      stated in schedule 11,
      part 2 of the Planning
      Regulations 2017; and
development on land outside the
koala priority area, wherethe
development does not interfere
with koala habitat in koala habitat
areas.