A Flora
and Fauna Assessment Report is required to be submitted
with:
- any application to prepare a Local Environment
Plan
(LEP) under Part 3
- any development application under
Part 4
- or any application for any activity under
Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment
Act 1979 (NSW) if the proposed plan, development
or
activity
is likely to affect native vegetation and/or fauna
habitat.
Fauna habitat typically includes native vegetation,
dead trees, hollow-bearing trees, caves, bush rock
and rocky outcrops, wetlands, streams, lakes, ponds
and dams.
Some chapters of the Wyong Shire Council Development
Control Plan 2005 also require specific ecological
assessment reports, such as Chapter 13 - Interim Conservation
Areas and Chapter 30 - Wetlands.
In 1999, Wyong Shire Council prepared the Flora
and Fauna Guidelines for Development (PDF - 2.45
MB) These guidelines detail how surveys should be
conducted. Surveys must be undertaken by appropriately
experienced
and competent experts in their respective field.
Council acknowledges that these Guidelines are out
of date, however, is of the view that they do provide
valuable assistance and they are therefore made available.
Council is likely to adopt the new Department of Environment,
Climate Change and Water’s Threatened Species
Survey and Assessment Guidelines, which will be published
in the near future.
Council’s Survey Guidelines provide a simplified
assessment in the form of a checklist for ‘minor
development’. The checklist (PDF
- 85 KB) may only be used if the definition of minor
development is met
and the development can easily be shown to have a negligible
effect on native vegetation or fauna habitat.
If any threatened species, population or ecological
communities are likely to occur in the study area,
then applicant’s need to have regard for s5A
of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979,
which details seven factors that need to be considered
to assess whether a development is likely to significantly
affect the threatened species, populations or ecological
communities, or their habitats. This assessment can
be guided by the Department of Environment and Climate
Change publication, Threatened
Species Assessment Guidelines – The
Assessment of Significance, 2007:
See the Department of Environment, Climate Change
and Water’s website for
threatened species profiles.
Assessibility
Downloadable files on this page are in the
Adobe PDF format. You need to download
a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader to read (PDF)
documents. However, if you have difficulties accessing
PDF documents, please inform Wyong Shire Council by telephone
on (02) 4350 5555, see
our accessibility information, or reach us by by e-mail.
Page last updated: 11/08/2009
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