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Ecological Assessment Report environmental management ecological assessment report environmental management Ecological Assessment Report — EPBC Act Referral Flinders Residential Development Undullah Road, Undullah Pacifiq Communities Pty Ltd 8020 E 15November 2017 saunders havill group page iii environmental management ecological assessment report Document Control Title Ecological Assessment Report — EPBC Act Referral Address Undullah Road, Undullah Queensland 4285 Job Number 8020 E Client Pacifiq Communities Pty Ltd Document Issue Issue Date Prepared By Checked By Draft (Client review) 28 September 2017 JB MS Draft (Client review) 3 November 2017 JB AD Draft (Client review) 10 November 2017 JB AD Final 15 November 2017 JB AD Disclaimer This report has been prepared for Pacifiq Communities Pty Ltd . Saunders Havill Group cannot accept responsibility for any use of or reliance upon the contents of this report by any third party. Reports and/or Plans by Others Reports and/or plans by others may be included within this Environmental Management report to support the document. saunders havill group page i environmental management ecological assessment report Table of contents 1. Introduction 5 1.1. Key action details 5 1.2. Purpose of this report 6 2. Methodology and process 9 2.1. Desktop research 9 2.2. Field surveys 9 Targeted species surveys 10 3. Legislation, policy and planning review 13 3.1. Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 13 3.2. Nature Conservation Act 1992 15 3.3. Vegetation Management Act 1999 16 3.4. Other relevant Queensland environmental legislation and policy 21 Planning Act 2016 assessment benchmarks (Koala habitat) 21 Regional Planning Interests Act 2014 21 Fisheries Act 1994 22 State Planning Policy 22 ShapingSEQ South East Queensland Regional Plan 23 4. Ecological assessment 28 4.1. Introduction 28 4.2. Weeds and introduced species 38 4.3. High density domain 40 4.4. Low density domain 46 4.5. Waterway and biodiversity corridors domain 49 4.6. Results of targeted flora and fauna species surveys 53 Large-eared Pied Bat ( Chalinolobus dwyeri ) 54 Spotted-tailed Quoll ( Dasyurus maculatus maculatus ) 54 Collared Delma ( Delma torquata ) 54 Red Goshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiates) 55 Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) 55 saunders havill group page 2 environmental management ecological assessment report Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby ( Petrogale penicillata ) 55 Grey-headed Flying Fox ( Pteropus poliocephalus ) 56 Black-breasted Button Quail ( Turnix melanogaster ) 56 Boonah Tuckeroo ( Cupaniopsis tomentella ) 57 Shiny-leaved Condoo ( Planchonella eerwah ) 57 Plectranthus ( Plectranthus habrophyllus ) 57 Cooneana Olive ( Notelaea ipsviciensis ) 58 4.7. Koala critical habitat 58 5. Conclusions 61 6. Appendices 63 saunders havill group page 3 environmental management ecological assessment report Figures Figure 1: Site context Figure 2: Site aerial Figure 3: Topography Figure 4: Regulated Vegetation Management map Figure 5: Vegetation Management Supporting Map Figure 6: Koala assessable development areas Figure 7: Koala habitat values Figure 8: Priority living areas Figure 9: ShapingSEQ regional biodiversity corridor and values Figure 10: Assessment domains Figure 11: Field survey effort Figure 12: Historical aerial imagery — 1944 Figure 13: Historical aerial imagery — 2004 Figure 14: Waterway corridors Figure 15: Critical koala habitat Tables Table 1: Targeted survey effort for threatened species Table 2: Protected Matters Search Tool extract of results Table 3: NCWR rare and threatened species extract of results Table 4: Flora observed Table 5: Fauna observed Table 6: Weeds and introduced flora species observed Table 7: Other weeds known to occur in the referral and surrounding areas Table 8: Threatened flora and fauna species observed saunders havill group page 4 environmental management ecological assessment report 1. Introduction The Environmental Management Division of Saunders Havill Group was engaged by Pacifiq Communities Pty Ltd to prepare an Ecological Assessment Report for the proposed master planned residential community at Undullah Road, Undullah. The proposed development is considered an action that may have a significant impact on a matter protected under the Australian Government’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The EPBC Act is administered by the Department of the Environment and Energy (the Department) and this report accompanies a referral to the Department and details the potential for significant impacts to protected matters. To assist the Department’s assessment of the referral, this report provides a review of the site’s ecological values in context of both the current Federal and State Government environmental legislation. The referral area is approximately 2,015 hectares (ha) and abuts the western boundary of the Greater Flagstone Priority Development Area (PDA). The properties within the PDA to the immediate east are likewise currently under referral to the Department. The proposed master planned community is bound by rural residential properties and bushland to the north, south and west. Undullah Creek meanders through the referral area and Woollaman Creek and Dugandan Creek form the southern boundary. The location and an aerial image of the referral area are presented in Figure 1 and Figure 2. 1.1. Key action details Proposed action To establish a master planned community (including residential, commercial, community and associated infrastructure uses) at Undullah Road, Undullah, Queensland Address Undullah Road, Undullah Queensland 4285 Freehold land parcels Part lot 19 on S311970; part lot 1 on RP35158; lot 1967.7 ha 1on RP46806; lot 2 on RP46302; part lot 2 on RP46303; part lot 2 on RP896513; lot 2 on S31878; lot 32 on S311402; lot 390 on SP133193; lot 3 on RP46302; part lot 42 on SL5873; and lot 74 on S312820 Reserve land parcels Lot 78 on M33772; and lot 81 on S311859 5.2 ha Road land parcels Mount Elliott Road; Undullah Road; Wild Pig 23.2 ha Creek Road; and un-named roads Watercourse land parcels Undullah Creek 9.8 ha Area Approximately 2,015 hectares Local government area Logan City saunders havill group page 5 environmental management ecological assessment report 1.2. Purpose of this report This report presents and comments on the outcomes of field surveys completed to assess potential impacts of the proposed master planned community (i.e. the proposed action) on ecological values, specifically those protected under the EPBC Act. The methodology and processes to deliver this assessment are detailed in section 2, and a review of relevant state planning instruments is provided in section 3. The results of this work are presented and discussed in section 4. saunders havill group page 6 environmental management ecological assessment report Figure 1: Site context saunders havill group page 7 environmental management ecological assessment report Figure 2: Site aerial saunders havill group page 8 environmental management ecological assessment report 2. Methodology and process The proposed action is in the planning phase and the methodology and processes to complete this assessment have incorporated relevant work completed thus far. This assessment comprises the following: 1. Section 2.1: desktop research; 2. Section 2.2: field surveys; 3. Section 3.: legislation, policy and planning review; 4. Section 4.: ecological assessment — field survey results and discussion; and 5. Section 5.: conclusions and recommendations. 2.1. Desktop research Desktop research that identifies relevant information for the site was completed prior to the commencement of field surveys. The primary legislative information reviewed for the referral area and surroundings is presented in Section 3. legislation, policy and planning review and listed below: ° EPBC Act Protected Matters Report (Australian Government); ° relevant EPBC Act survey guidelines (Australian Government); ° relevant EPBC Act listing advices including condition thresholds for each potentially occurring Listed TEC (Australian Government); ° Wildlife Online Extract (Queensland Government); ° Vegetation Management Report (Queensland Government); ° Regulated Vegetation Management Map and supporting information (Queensland Government); ° Land Suitability Map and supporting information (Queensland Government); and ° State interests mapping (e.g. Koala conservation, the South East Queensland Regional Plan (ShapingSEQ) , areas of regional interest) (Queensland Government). In order to derive a field survey plan, the following resources were also reviewed: ° existing ecological reports and plans for the referral area (e.g. Ecological Assessment by consultant James Warren & Associates, December 2011; ° aerial photography history to assist with the broad delineation and historical disturbance patterns to vegetation communities; and ° topography which varies from steep and rolling hills to terraced river landscapes ( Figure 3). 2.2. Field surveys Tertiary-qualified and experienced Ecologists and Environmental Scientists completed detailed flora and fauna surveys across the referral area in September and October 2017. These were carried out using several survey methods to describe various on-site habitat and vegetation characteristics. The activities undertaken included: saunders havill group page 9 environmental management ecological assessment report ° General searches and species identification — The referral area was traversed by foot to identify and record vegetation communities and flora species. Particular attention
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