2 David Low Way - Attachment 2 - Ecological and Bushfire Assessment Report 9-8-17

                                                                                    Ecological and Bushfire Assessment Report
                                                                                        Lot 71 on MCH 2854, Castaways Beach




 Regulation           Values and SDAP Triggers                                                  Compliance

                            State code 18: Constructing or raising waterway barrier works
                             in fish habitats
 Vegetation           Field observations generally support the State regulated vegetation       Complies – no assessment
 Management Act       mapping classification of the Site as supporting “remnant                 requirements.
 (VM Act)             vegetation” comprised of Least Concern regional ecosystem
                      RE12.2.14 Strand and fore dune complex. The north-western
                      portion of the Site also supports elements of Least Concern regional
                      ecosystem RE12.2.5 Corymbia intermedia +/- Lophostemon
                      confertus +/- Banksia spp. +/- Callitris columellaris open forest on
                      beach ridges.
                      Any clearance of regulated vegetation associated with the proposed
                      RoL would not constitute assessable development as it would be
                      clearance of a Least Concern RE in an urban area for an urban
                      purpose (refer Schedule 21, Part 2 of the Planning Regulation
                      2017).
                      As such the proposed RoL does not rigger assessment against
                      State code 16: Native vegetation clearing.

 Coastal Protection   The Site is located within the Coastal Management District and            Complies – the proposed
 and Management       therefore the proposed development triggers assessment against            plan of development is
 Act a                State code 8: Coastal development and tidal works. The purpose            consistent with applicable
                      of this code is to ensure that development is designed and located        POs of the State code 8:
                      to:                                                                       Coastal development and
                                                                                                tidal   works     that  are
                      1.   protect life, buildings and infrastructure from the impacts of
                                                                                                concerned with achieving
                           coastal erosion;
                                                                                                biodiversity outcomes .
                      2.   maintain coastal processes;
                      3.   conserve coastal resources;
                      4.   maintain appropriate public use of, and access to and along,
                           state coastal land;
                      5.   account for the projected impacts of climate change; and
                      6.   avoid impacts on matters of state environmental significance
                           and, where avoidance is not possible, minimise and mitigate
                           impacts, and provide an offset for significant residual impacts
                           where appropriate.
                      Consideration of items 1, 2, 4 and 5 are outside of the scope of this
                      assessment. In respect of items 2 and 6 the only applicable
                      Performance Outcome is PO16 of Table 8.2.1: All development.
                      In respect of PO16 the proposed plan of development will not have
                      a significant impact on any MSES.

 Nature               The Site is classified as a High Risk Area, for flora species listed as   Complies – no assessment
 Conservation Act     threatened pursuant to the NC Act, on the Protected Plants Flora          requirements.
 1992 (NC At)         Survey Trigger Map for the Site locality,
                                                                                                However       it    will   be
                      No threatened flora species, pursuant to the NC Act, were identified      necessary to submit a Flora
                      on or immediately adjacent the Site during the conduct of a flora         Survey Report and exempt
                      survey carried out generally in accordance with Queensland                clearing notification form to
                      Government Flora Survey Guidelines – Protected plants (the Flora          EHP      prior      to    the
                      Survey Guidelines). Furthermore a review of the habitat                   commencement of any
                      requirements of threatened flora species previously recorded in the       non-exempt         vegetation
                      Site locality (i.e. within a 5km radius) indicates that the Site is not   clearance works on the
                      likely to provide habitat for any such species.                           Site.




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