Pymble Business Park - Ku-ring-gai Council

6.3 LANDSCAPING (continued)
6
Objectives
Controls
7 To integrate landscape
design and biodiversity
protection with bushfire
management.
8 To contribute to climate
control by retaining and
planting trees to capture
atmospheric carbon.
9 To promote climate
change adaptation
through landscape design
which minimises water
use, provides for summer
shade, is resilient to
storms, consolidates and
interconnects vegetation,
habitat and waterways,
and minimises bushfire
risk.
Figure 6.3-2
Trees planted in groups are
more resilient to storms
7 The introduction of imported soils and disturbance of local seed
banks must be avoided wherever possible.
8 Vegetation retention and planting must also consider resilience:
i) Healthy undamaged specimens are to be the first priority for
conservation, particularly habitat trees;
ii) While single trees may be ecologically important in their own
right, or as part of a broader community, retaining and planting
trees in groups generally provide increased resilience to storm
events.
Note 1: Works within an area containing critical habitat, threatened species,
populations, or threatened ecological communities may require a fl ora and fauna
assessment in accordance with Part 5A of the Environmental Planning and
Assessment Act (1979). Works that have a signifi cant impact on the above are
integrated development requiring referral to at least one government agency.
Note 2: Matters of National Environmental Signifi cance must also be considered
under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999). This
process is managed externally to Council. These matters include migratory species,
threatened species, populations and ecological communities listed under the Act.
9 Siting and choice of trees must consider:
i) good solar access to useable open space areas;
ii) provision of summer shade;
iii) proximity to buildings, fences, and other structures;
iv) proximity to stormwater, electricity, gas, sewer, other
infrastructure and services; and
v) the potential hazard on sites prone to bushfire risk (refer to
Planning for Bushfire Protection 2006).
Bushland Protection
10 Where stands of bushland are on or adjacent to a development site,
a landscape buffer zone is to be established on the development site
between the proposed development and the bushland. The width of
the landscape buffer zone is to be determined having regard to:
i) the location of natural drainage lines and riparian zones;
ii) the presence of habitat, threatened species, populations or
communities; and
iii) the need for an asset protection zone.
SITE DESIGN
11 Where development is adjacent to bushland, a riparian zone or other
significant vegetation or habitat, the applicant must demonstrate
how the ecological values will be protected. Council may require an
environmental or vegetation management plan in this regard.
Draft Ku-ring-gai Principal Development Control Plan 2012
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