Town Planning Assessment Report · 132005.307.01

SUNCOAST BUILDING APPROVALS                                              TOWN PLANNING REPORT SBA 22792



PO4                                                    Not applicable.
Development provides for effective measures
during construction and operation to protect
ecological values including:
    (a) avoiding disturbance to or clearing of
        vegetation in and within the vicinity of the
        site;
    (b) managing habitat disturbance and
        physical harm to fauna from noise,
        vibration, dust, light, dewatering or
        excavating; and
    (c) avoiding clearing in areas where erosion
        or slippage could occur.
PO5                                                    Not applicable.
Development is designed and operated to
maintain and enhance connectivity between and
across ecologically important areas and
connecting habitat and support unimpeded and
safe movement of terrestrial and aquatic fauna.
PO6
The biodiversity and ecosystem values of
waterways, wetlands and adjacent riparian zones
are protected by:
    (a) avoiding any new development in a
        riparian buffer area and wetland area;
    (b) retaining aquatic and terrestrial habitat in
        riparian zones;
    (c) maintaining and enhancing wildlife
        corridors and connectivity along
        watercourses and drainage lines for
        native fauna movement;
    (d) avoiding edge effects and damage from
        adjacent land uses;
    (e) maintaining stream integrity and bank
        stability by minimising bank erosion and
        slumping;
    (f) maintaining water quality through filtering
        sediments, nutrients and other pollutants;
        and
    (g) removing pest species and replacing
        them with local native species.
PO7                                                    Not applicable.
Vegetation within 400 metres of the full ponded
water within Lake Macdonald is retained.
PO8                                                    Not applicable.
Development on land adjacent to a waterway or
wetland maintains appropriate extent of public
access to waterways and wetlands and
minimises edge effects.
PO9                                                    Not applicable.
Development ensures that the natural surface
water and ground water hydrologic regimes of
waterways, wetlands and hydrologically-sensitive
plant communities are not adversely impacted.
PO10                                                   Not applicable.
Development provides for ecologically important
areas to be restored and enhanced through:
    (a) designing landscaped areas to
        complement and enhance existing
        vegetation and ecological linkages;



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