Planning for Biodiversity Policy

We have developed a Planning for Biodiversity Policy to guide developers and Council officers to ensure all new conservation reserves are appropriately designed and handed over in a suitable condition.

The policy establishes our expectations of the design, securing, management, monitoring and vesting of conservation reserves.

This policy assists with ensuring that conservation areas due to be vested in Council come across in a suitable condition or with suitable resources.

The policy also seeks to facilitate protecting conservation reserves through updates to zoning when vesting occurs to avoid legacy issues of conservation reserves being inappropriately zoned.

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Planning for Biodiversity Policy(PDF, 481KB)