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Appendices
Appendix 1 – Fixed buffer distances
This appendix indicates minimum fixed buffer distances that meat chicken farm complex and waste
utilisation areas should be from surface water and other features.
Fixed buffer distances are included largely to permit a simple, conservative evaluation of required
buffer distances. Both site-specific separation distances to sensitive land uses and fixed buffer
distances should be complied with.
One way to achieve separation and buffer distances for new meat chicken farms is to ensure that
development occurs on an appropriately sized block or parcel of land. It is suggested that a
minimum area of 100 hectares located in a rural zone would be needed, if the fixed buffer and
separation distances are to be achieved.
Fixed buffers allow the development of vegetation strips that provide visual separation from other
land uses which can potentially improve amenity. It is suggested that where land for new
development does not have significant vegetative areas that the planting and ongoing maintenance
of vegetation strips should be considered.
The local council should be contacted to determine the fixed buffer distances, or methods for their
calculation, applicable to the local government area.
The Queensland Planning Provisions (QPP) are the standard planning provisions made by the
Planning Minister. The QPP provide a consistent form for planning schemes across Queensland
through standardised structure, format, land use and administrative definitions, zones, levels of
assessment, overlays, infrastructure planning provisions, development assessment codes and
other administrative matters. The QPP identify land uses that may be attached to particular zones.
Broadly it is appropriate that intensive animal industries, as a rural activity, occur in a rural zone.
Where intensive animal industry activities occur in proximity to a non-rural zone, where it is more
likely that the cluster of activities in that zone are non-agricultural in nature, then it is reasonable
that there be greater separation between the activities in different zones.
Fixed buffer distances required for a meat chicken farm complex and waste utilisation areas from
surface water and water supply storage are shown in Table 1.
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