Annex 10 - Code 8 - Coastal Development & Tidal Works

  Performance outcomes                                          Acceptable outcomes                    Response
      1.   are used for marine access purposes only                                                    The development is not private marine development.
      2.   minimise the use of state coastal land
      3.   do not interfere with access between navigable
           waterways and adjacent properties.
  PO15 Development ensures erosion control structures are       No acceptable outcome is prescribed.   Not applicable
  located within the premises they are intended to protect
                                                                                                       While the works may have erosion control benefits,
  unless there is no feasible alternative.
                                                                                                       they are not primarily for the purpose of controlling
                                                                                                       erosion. The objective is to restore oyster-dominated
                                                                                                       ecosystems to the Noosa River estuary. Site
                                                                                                       selection has been based on Habitat Suitability
                                                                                                       parameters and Restoration suitability parameters.




  Matters of state environmental significance
  PO16 Development:                                             No acceptable outcome is prescribed.   Complies with PO16
       1. avoids impacts on matters of state environmental
            significance; or                                                                           Matters of State environmental significance (MSES) -
       2. minimises and mitigates impacts on matters of                                                Tewantin
            state environmental significance after                                                         •    High Ecological Value Waters (wetland)
            demonstrating avoidance is not reasonably
            possible; and                                                                                  •    High Ecological Significance Wetlands
       3. provides an offset if, after demonstrating all                                                   •    Noosa River Declared Fish Habitat (A) Area
            reasonable avoidance, minimisation and mitigation
            measures are undertaken, the development results                                           High Ecological Value (HEV) Waters (wetland) / High
            in an acceptable significant residual impact on a                                          Ecological Significance (HES) Wetlands
            matter of state environmental significance.
                                                                                                       The oyster ecosystem restoration works are designed to
  Statutory note: For Brisbane core port land, an offset may                                           enhance the values of the wetland by restoring a complex
  only be applied to development on land identified as E1                                              ecosystem to what is currently a degraded aquatic
  Conservation/Buffer, E2 Open Space or Buffer/Investigation                                           environment.
  in the Brisbane Port LUP precinct plan. For the Brisbane
  Port LUP, see www.portbris.com.au.                                                                   Mangroves and seagrasses are not within the footprint of
                                                                                                       this project and will not be impacted.
  Note: Guidance for determining if the development will have
  a significant residual impact on the matter of state                                                 A small stand of mangroves is shoreward of the proposed
  environmental significance is provided in the Significant                                            restoration footprint. Mangrove areal roots extend into the

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