Ku-ring-gai Local Environmental Plan 2015

The objective of this clause is to protect, maintain and improve the diversity and condition of native vegetation and habitat, including—

protecting biological diversity of native fauna and flora, and

protecting the ecological processes necessary for their continued existence, and

encouraging the recovery of threatened species, communities, populations and their habitats, and

protecting, restoring and enhancing biodiversity corridors.

This clause applies to land identified as “Biodiversity” on the Terrestrial Biodiversity Map.

Before determining a development application for development on land to which this clause applies, the consent authority must consider—

the impact of the proposed development on the following—

any native vegetation community,

the habitat of any threatened species, population or ecological community,

any regionally significant species of plant, animal or habitat,

any biodiversity corridor,

any wetland,

the biodiversity values within any reserve,

the stability of the land, and

any proposed measure to be undertaken to ameliorate any potential adverse environmental impact, and

any opportunity to restore or enhance remnant vegetation, habitat and biodiversity corridors.

Development consent must not be granted to development on land to which this clause applies unless the consent authority is satisfied that the development—

is consistent with the objectives of this clause, and

is designed, and will be sited and managed, to avoid any potentially adverse environmental impact or, if a potentially adverse environmental impact cannot be avoided—

the development minimises disturbance and adverse impacts on remnant vegetation communities, habitat and threatened species and populations, and

measures have been considered to maintain native vegetation and habitat in parcels of a size, condition and configuration that will facilitate biodiversity protection and native flora and fauna movement through biodiversity corridors, and

the development avoids clearing steep slopes and facilitates the stability of the land, and

measures have been considered to achieve no net loss of significant vegetation or habitat.

In this clause—