186-206 Captain Cook Drive, Kurnell Heritage Assessment Prepared by AMBS Ecology & Heritage for Taleb Property Pty Ltd Final June 2017 AMBS Reference: 15225 AMBS Ecology & Heritage www.ambs.com.au [email protected] 02 9518 4489 186-206 Captain Cook Drive, Kurnell Heritage Assessment Document Information AMBS Ecology & Heritage 2017, 186-206 Captain Cook Drive, Kurnell Citation: Heritage Assessment. Consultancy report to Taleb Property Pty Ltd. AMBS Ref: 15225 Version 1: Draft Report issued 15 May 2017 Versions: Version 2: Final Report issued 15 June 2017 LGA: Sutherland Recipient: Shane Youssef, Project Manager, First Class Building Construction Authors: Christopher Langeluddecke, Amy Keighran, Jennie Lindbergh Christopher Langeluddecke, Director Aboriginal Heritage, AMBS Approved by: Ecology & Heritage AMBS Ecology & Heritage II 186-206 Captain Cook Drive, Kurnell Heritage Assessment Contents 1 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 6 1.1 Study Area .............................................................................................................................. 6 1.2 Proposed Development ......................................................................................................... 6 1.3 Methodology & Authorship ................................................................................................... 6 2 Statutory Context ............................................................................................. 12 2.1 Environment Protection & Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 .......................................... 12 2.2 National Parks & Wildlife Act 1974 (Amended 2010) and National Parks & Wildlife Amendment Regulation 2010 ......................................................................................................... 14 2.2.1 Aboriginal Heritage Information Management System (AHIMS) ................................. 14 2.3 Heritage Act 1977 ................................................................................................................ 14 2.4 Environmental Planning & Assessment Act 1979 ................................................................ 15 2.4.1 Sutherland Shire Local Environmental Plan 2015 ......................................................... 15 3 Aboriginal Community Consultation .................................................................. 17 4 Environmental Context ..................................................................................... 19 4.1 Geology & Topography ........................................................................................................ 19 4.2 Soils & Vegetation ................................................................................................................ 19 4.3 Hydrology & Drainage .......................................................................................................... 20 4.4 Historic Context ................................................................................................................... 20 4.4.1 European Settlement .................................................................................................... 20 4.4.2 Kurnell Township .......................................................................................................... 21 4.4.3 Industrial Development ................................................................................................ 23 4.5 Disturbance .......................................................................................................................... 25 5 Aboriginal Archaeological Context ..................................................................... 28 5.1 Ethnographic Context .......................................................................................................... 29 5.1.1 Living as Australia’s Earliest Inhabitants ...................................................................... 29 5.1.2 European Contact ......................................................................................................... 29 5.2 Local Archaeological Context ............................................................................................... 30 5.2.1 Registered Aboriginal Sites ........................................................................................... 32 5.3 Aboriginal Heritage Site Predictive Modelling ..................................................................... 35 6 Historic Heritage Physical Analysis .................................................................... 37 6.1 Discussion & Analysis of Potential Impacts ......................................................................... 38 6.1.1 Heritage in the Vicinity ................................................................................................. 38 7 Aboriginal Archaeological Survey ...................................................................... 41 7.1 Survey Methodology ............................................................................................................ 41 7.2 Survey Results ...................................................................................................................... 41 7.2.1 Survey Coverage Data .................................................................................................. 45 7.2.2 Areas of Disturbance .................................................................................................... 46 7.1 Survey Discussion ................................................................................................................. 48 8 Assessment of Aboriginal Heritage Significance ................................................. 50 8.1 Assessment Against Criteria................................................................................................. 50 9 Assessment of Heritage Impact ......................................................................... 52 10 Management & Mitigation Measures ............................................................. 53 11 Conclusion & Recommendations .................................................................... 54 11.1 historic ................................................................................................................................. 54 11.2 Aboriginal ............................................................................................................................. 54 Bibliography ............................................................................................................ 56 Appendix A: Aboriginal Community Consultation ........... 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Tables Table 5.1 Description of Aboriginal heritage site features (after OEH 2012:8-10). ............................ 28 Table 5.2 Summary of Aboriginal sites previously recorded in the vicinity of the study area. ........... 32 Table 7.1 Survey Coverage .................................................................................................................. 46 Table 7.2 Surveyed landform summary. ............................................................................................. 46 Table 7.3 Levels of disturbance and impacts on archaeological resource. ......................................... 47 Table 9.1 Aboriginal heritage impact assessment summary. ............................................................. 52 Figures Figure 1.1 Location of the Study Area. .................................................................................................. 8 Figure 1.2 Proposed development, site plan. ....................................................................................... 9 Figure 1.3 proposed development, north and south elevation. ......................................................... 10 Figure 1.4 Proposed development, east elevation ............................................................................. 11 Figure 2.1 The gazetted NHL curtilage of the Kurnell Peninsula Headland with the study area outlined in red (http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/pages/b79bf717-c33f-407e-9701- 2e8fa889d804/files/10581201.pdf). ........................................................................................... 13 Figure 2.2 The local heritage environment of the study area (outlined red) (Composite of LEP heritage maps 7150_COM_HER_007_020_20150424 and 7150_COM_HER_010_020_20150424. ........ 16 Figure 4.1 Detail from 1868 Parish