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Yellingbo Conservation Area Draft 10 Year Plan Yellingbo Conservation Area Draft 10 Year Plan Approved by the Yellingbo Conservation Area Coordinating Committee 7 - 9 Symes Road, Woori Yallock VIC 3139 PO Box 32, Woori Yallock VIC 3139 Your submission is invited in response to this plan This draft plan for the Yellingbo Conservation Area is now released for public comment (August 2019). Interested individuals, community organisations, groups and agencies are invited to make written submissions by close of business on Sunday, 7th October 2018 A series of consultation questions are included throughout this plan. These are aimed at helping the reader focus on providing feedback. The questions are the same as those on the Engage Victoria website; answers can be submitted through the Engage Victoria website or via a paper copy of the survey. A survey is available online at: https://engage.vic.gov.au/yellingboconservationarea All submissions will be carefully considered and taken into account as the final plan is being prepared for approval. The names of people and groups making submissions will be published in the final plan unless comments are marked as CONFIDENTIAL when submitted. Submissions can also be lodged online at: https://engage.vic.gov.au/yellingboconservationarea The survey can be downloaded from https://engage.vic.gov.au/yellingboconservationarea and mailed to: Yellingbo Conservation Area Submissions Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning Private Bag 15 Ferntree Gully Delivery Centre Victoria 3156 Or emailed to: [email protected] (case sensitive) Copies This draft plan may be downloaded from: www.engage.vic.gov.au Yellingbo Conservation Area Draft 10 Year Plan YELLINGBO CONSERVATION AREA DRAFT 10 YEAR PLAN Prepared for the Yellingbo Conservation Area Coordinating Committee by the Yellingbo Conservation Area Project Implementation Team, Department of Environment, Land Water and Planning August 2018 Yellingbo Conservation Area Draft 10 Year Plan Yellingbo Conservation Area Draft 10 Year Plan Acknowledgements The Yellingbo Conservation Area (Conservation Area) Draft 10 Year Plan has been prepared to guide the strategic development and long term detailed planning for implementation of the Conservation Area. Creation of the Conservation Area is a key recommendation of the 2013 Victorian Environmental Assessment Council (VEAC) Yellingbo Investigation. The Government Response to Victorian Environmental Assessment Council’s (VEAC) Yellingbo Investigation Area Final Report (March 2014) outlines the scope and purpose of the Conservation Area in detail and this Draft Plan builds on the recommendations through expanded and more thorough community engagement processes. DELWP has developed this Draft Plan in partnership with the Yellingbo Conservation Area Coordinating Committee (YCACC). The YCACC is comprised of an independent convenor, community representatives from the Yarra Ranges Council and Cardinia Shire Council, representatives from Yarra Ranges Council and Cardinia Shire Council, and from the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP), Melbourne Water (MW), Parks Victoria, Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority (PPWCMA), Trust for Nature (TfN), Wurundjeri Tribe Council, Country Fire Authority (CFA) and Zoos Victoria. The Yellingbo Conservation Area Draft Plan is the result of an extensive community engagement process including workshops and meetings with a range of community groups, online input via surveys, conversations with landholders and land managers, and the general community, as well as input from a range of agencies, YCACC members and guests of YCACC. We respectfully acknowledge that the Yellingbo Conservation Area is located on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people. We honour their culture, which has nurtured this land since The Dreamtime. Photo credits Front cover: L-R: Stream (credit: Anton Atanasovm, pexels.com), Leadbeaters Possum (credit: Zoos Victoria), walkers in Yarra Forest (credit: DELWP) Page 5: Eucalyptus ovata (S. Tardif) Page 11: Dog Walker (DELWP) Page 24: Safer Together (State Government of Victoria) Page 28: Walkers in park (Parks Victoria) Page 37: Yarra River at Milgrove (S. Tardif) Pages 42: Eucalyptus identification (TfN) Page 47: Agile Antechinus (B. Tardif) Page 88: Scientific Study (pixabay.com) © Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. You are free to re-use the work under that licence, on the condition that you credit the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning and Yellingbo Conservation Area Coordinating Committee as author. The licence does not apply to any images, photographs or branding including, but not confined to, the following images: Yellingbo Conservation Area Coordinating Committee logo; Victorian Coat of Arms; Victorian Government logo; Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning logo; Parks Victoria logo; Melbourne Water logo; Yarra Ranges Council logo; Cardinia Shire Council logo; Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority logo; Zoos Victoria logo; Trust for Nature logo; Wurundjeri Land and Compensation Cultural Heritage Council logo. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Disclaimer This publication may be of assistance to you but the Department of Environment, land, water and Planning and its employees do not guarantee that the publication is without flaw of any kind or is wholly appropriate for your particular purposes and therefore disclaims all liability for any error, loss or other consequence which may arise from you relying on any information in this publication. i Yellingbo Conservation Area Draft 10 Year Plan Yellingbo Conservation Area Draft 10 Year Plan .................................................................................... iv Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 1 Vision ................................................................................................................................................... 1 1. Land Status and Zoning ...................................................................................................................... 6 1.1 Overview of land status changes .................................................................................................. 6 1.2 Zoning............................................................................................................................................ 7 1.3 Legislation ..................................................................................................................................... 9 2. Healthy Conservation Landscape ..................................................................................................... 11 2.1 Key management outcomes ....................................................................................................... 12 2.2 Public land ................................................................................................................................... 13 2.3 Native vegetation ........................................................................................................................ 14 2.4 Endangered vegetation communities ......................................................................................... 15 2.5 Threatened species ..................................................................................................................... 17 2.6 Waterway health......................................................................................................................... 19 2.7 Climate change ............................................................................................................................ 23 3. Fire Management ............................................................................................................................. 25 4. Recreation and Use .......................................................................................................................... 29 4.1 Key management outcomes ....................................................................................................... 29 4.2 Recreational activities ................................................................................................................. 29 4.3 Current agricultural and horticultural land use .......................................................................... 31 4.4 Adjacent landholders .................................................................................................................. 32 4.5 Access, facilities and safety ......................................................................................................... 33 4.6 Education and interpretation...................................................................................................... 34 4.7 Authorised uses........................................................................................................................... 34 4.8 Riparian management licences ................................................................................................... 34 4.9 Conservation Area compliance strategy ..................................................................................... 35 5. Cultural Heritage .............................................................................................................................
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