2017-11-07 P&E Committee - Attachment 1 to Item 1 - Amendments for Multiple Housing Type 2 Duplex & Minor Corrections

                                                                 a)     cutting down, or
            Including amendments to 3 July 2017




                                                                 b)     cutting or tearing branches, stems or roots, topping, pruning or lopping as per
The Noosa Plan



                                                                        Australian Standard AS 4373-2007 – Pruning of Amenity Trees; or
                                                                 c)     poisoning, including contamination; or
                                                                 d)     releasing oil, petroleum, paint, cement, mortar or other deleterious substances to
                                                                        a root zone; or
                                                                 e)     ringbarking; or
                                                                 f)     scar barking; or
                                                                 g)     fixing any object into living tissue or surrounding trunk or branches that may
                                                                        destroy or seriously affect the vegetation; or
                                                                 h)     using any tree climbing spikes in healthy trees that may destroy or seriously
                                                                        affect the vegetation, other than in accordance with AS 4373-1996; or
                                                                 i)     damaging a root zone by compaction, excavation or filling in a way that may
                                                                        destroy or seriously affect the vegetation; or
                                                                 j)     attaching guy rope, cable or other contrivances that may destroy or seriously
                                                                        affect the vegetation; or
                                                                 k)     uprooting or displacing that may destroy or seriously affect the vegetation but
                                                                        not including destroying standing vegetation by stock.

                                                                lopping, a tree, means cutting or pruning its branches, but does not include—
                                                                a)    removing its trunk; and
                                                                b)    cutting or pruning its branches so severely that it is likely to die.

                                                                property maintenance activity means clearing protected vegetation which is
                                                                reasonably necessary for property maintenance including the following—

                                                                a)       construction and maintenance of a farm track, fence and shed on site
                                                                b)       maintenance of crops
                                                                c)       slashing of grass
                                                                d)       harvesting of crops
                                                                e)       maintenance of pasture and cleared land areas
                                                                f)       pruning, felling and clearing of orchard vegetation species
                                                                g)       surveying purposes
                                                                h)       collection of firewood for non-commercial purposes
                                                                i)       removal of an exotic weed
                                                                j)       removal of undesirable plant species2
                                                                k)       any other maintenance activity specified in a property vegetation management
                                                                         plan.

                                                                property vegetation management plan is a specific program of vegetation
                                                                management for a category 4 lot approved under the former Local Law No. 10
                                                                (Vegetation Management).

                                                                protected vegetation means vegetation protected from clearing in the Protected
                                                                Vegetation Overlay Area as follows—

                                                                a)       Category 1, 2 and 3 lots – all vegetation
                                                                b)       Category 4 lots – vegetation to be retained as part of a property vegetation
                                                                         management plan

                                                                Protected Vegetation Overlay Area applies to the whole of the planning scheme
                                                                area of the Noosa Plan.

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                                                      Undesirable Plant Species is defined in the Dictionary (Part 2 Interpretation).

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                                                                                                        Biodiversity Overlay