Biodiversity Overlay Review

1 INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this report is to analyse, in detail, the provisions of the Biodiversity Overlay of the Noosa
Plan 2020 for the assessment of the reconfiguration of a lot (1 into 8 lots) application at 60 Glenridge
Drive, Cooroibah, Noosa (Lot 47 on RP860577). The assessment tables in Part 5 of the Noosa Plan
require any reconfiguration of a lot to be assessed against the Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands
Overlay Code, where the lot is subject to the overlay.

Upon the assessment of the reconfiguration of a lot application against the code provisions of the
Biodiversity Waterways and Wetlands Overlay code, specific conditions can be applied to ensure there is
a beneficial net increase in biodiversity values for the site and its’ surrounds, and that these values can
be protected in perpetuity.


2 SITE CHARACTERISTICS
The site is located about 7.5Km northwest of Tewantin and shares it’s western boundary with McKinnon
Drive. The lot shares its other boundaries with rural residential properties (Fig 1).




Fig 1: Site location

The site is traversed by a drainage line running west to east and then south. The site generally cleared
and has some sparsely vegetated areas, notably with some important vegetation located along its
western boundary.




Ecological assessment V1: 60 Glenridge Drive, Cooroibah, Noosa by Conor Neville, Ecologist Pg. 2