Ecological Assessment Report

                                                                                                                                   Ecological Assessment Report



                                                Table 3: Summary of desktop and site assessment results.


 Legislative / Compliance Element           Desktop Assessment Results                                  Field Survey Results and Assessment

 Australian Legislation

Environmental Protection and Biodiversity                                                    •
                                            Three (3) listed threatened ecological communities         No species or communities listed under the EPBC Act
Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act)            (TEC):                                                     were found to be present within the development
                                                                                                       footprint area. However, the property does contain
                                       •    Coastal Swamp Oak (Casuarina glauca) Forest of New
                                                                                                       forest that could be identified as Coastal swamp
                                            South Wales and South East Queensland ecological
                                                                                                       sclerophyll forest of NSW and SEQ and the property
                                            community (Endangered);
                                                                                                       does contain suitable habitat for some of the listed 76
                                       •    Lowland Rainforest of Subtropical Australia (Critically    threatened species in the area, including koalas.
                                            Endangered);
                                                                                                       The development will not impact on any vegetation or
                                       •    Coastal swamp sclerophyll forest of NSW and SEQ            habitat areas on site for listed threatened species.
                                            Seventy six (76) threatened species; and                   The development does not warrant an EPBC referral.

                                            Forty eight (48) migratory species.

                                            Refer to Appendix 1

Queensland Legislation

Coastal Protection and Management Act       The site is mapped within the Coastal Management           The site inspection confirmed that the development
1995                                        District and is within a Coastal area subject to erosion   footprint area is outside of the coastal area subject to
                                            and storm tide inundation. However, the proposed           erosion and storm tide inundation. The development
                                            development footprint area is outside of the Coastal       area is still within the Coastal Management District.
                                            area subject to erosion and storm tide inundation.         The ‘State Code for Accepted Development for Tidal
                                                                                                       works, or work completely or partly in a coastal
                                                                                                       management district’ (August 2017) is not applicable
                                                                                                       to this application, because the application does not




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