Pymble Business Park - Ku-ring-gai Council

13.6 NO NET LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY
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Objectives
Controls
1 To allow for reasonable
development while
maintaining and
enhancing biodiversity and
ecological integrity.
2 To facilitate continuity of
the ecological diversity
currently alive in the
locality.
3 To provide a range of
mechanisms to achieve
no net loss of significant
vegetation or habitat.
4 To ensure that where
biodiversity values
need to be offset, policy
requirements are applied
consistently across
developments and in such
a way as to enhance the
ecological integrity across
the local government area.
5 To increase the level of
security for significant
vegetation and habitat.
1 Development proposals must seek to achieve no net loss of
significant vegetation or habitat. Retention of vegetation and habitat
in situ remains the preferred method of biodiversity conservation.
In the event that loss of vegetation is unavoidable that loss must be
mitigated and/or offset.
2 Any proposed loss of vegetation in the Greenweb must be
accompanied by a proposal to protect, enhance or create habitat at
another location, on or off site.
3 Any application for works within the Greenweb, that
- (i) requires the removal of native vegetation, or,
- (ii) will negatively effect actual or potential habitat of fauna or
flora, or
- (iii) is likely to cause degradation to vegetation or habitat
must be accompanied by a proposal to protect, enhance or create
habitat at another location, on or off site.
4 No net loss of significant vegetation or habitat may be achieved by:
5 Retention and protection of existing significant vegetation and
habitat, or.
i) Informal compensatory measures:
- planting and habitat creation, especially where it improves
connectivity;
- rehabilitation of degraded areas;
- translocation of plants or soils; and
ii) formal offsetting measures:
- offsetting on or off site in accordance with Part 7A of the NSW
Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995, (also known as
Biobanking) or Council’s Biodiversity Offset Policy.
6 In determining the appropriate measures a number of factors must
be considered:
i) size and condition of the vegetation or habitat;
ii) vegetation or habitat significance, including its legislative status,
and its Greenweb category;
iii) scale and duration of the impact;
iv) current and future landscape context;
v) level of uncertainty; and
vi) any other mitigation measures proposed as part of the
development.
BIODIVERSITY CONTROLS
Examples:
- The removal of an unhealthy tree within a threatened
ecological community may be supported by Council, on
condition that a number of trees (from species found within
the same ecological community) are planted in appropriate
locations of the site.
Draft Ku-ring-gai Pymble Business ParkDevelopment Control Plan 2012
p 183