Amended Ecological Assessment Report

                                                                                                                                      Ecological Assessment Letter




               Performance Outcomes                                          Acceptable Outcomes                                          Compliance

PO12   Bushfire management measures are adopted based           No acceptable outcome provided                                 Complies with PO12
       on ecological principles, which:                                                                                        The       bushfire       management
                                                                                                                               measures for the site are primarily
                 1.   maintain and enhance biodiversity;                                                                       based on the use of an Asset
                 2.   minimise threat of fire to the natural                                                                   Protection Zone (APZ) around the
                      environment, as well as life and                                                                         dwelling. The APZ will not require
                      property; and                                                                                            vegetation removal. The access
                 3.   provide for effective use and                                                                            track to the dwelling is already
                      maintenance of buildings and                                                                             constructed. No further vegetation
                      structures.                                                                                              clearing is required for access to the
                                                                                                                               dwelling.
       Editor's note—The performance outcome applies to
       properties in bushfire hazard areas and only
       where clearing is reasonably necessary for the
       control of bushfire risk to a building or
       structure. Bushfire hazard areas are shown on Bushfire
       Hazard Overlay maps in Schedule 2.

Scenic amenity
                                                                AO13.1
PO13   The scenic amenity and vegetated character of the        Vegetation is retained:                                        Complies with PO13
       landscape is protected by retaining vegetation:                    1. on and within 30 metres of prominent ridgelines   The proposed dwelling will not
                                                                               and on sloping sites;                           negatively impact upon the scenic
                 1.   along and around watercourses and                   2. in gullies;                                       amenity and vegetated character of
                      drainage lines;                                     3. along watercourses and drainage lines;            the landscape.
                 2.   on steep slopes and ridgelines;                     4. within 10 metres of the major road network; and
                                                                                                                               No vegetation will be impacted
                 3.   along the major road network; and                   5. along the front coastal dune system.
                                                                                                                               along any watercourses or drainage
                 4.   that forms coastal vistas to and from                                                                    lines, or along major roads. The
                      beaches.                                                                                                 house will likely be visible when
                                                                                                                               viewed from the north, but it will be
                                                                                                                               surrounded on three sides by
                                                                                                                               mature forest and will not protrude
                                                                                                                               above the background vegetation
                                                                                                                               and be silhouetted against the sky.




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