Key Points:
Site design must avoid clearing non-juvenile koala
habitat trees in certain listed areas.
The Department of Environment and Heritage Protection is calling
for written submissions on draft
amendments to the South East Queensland Koala Conservation State
Planning Regulatory Provisions (Koala SPRP).
Although "draft", the amendments took effect on 26 June
2015.
The amendments reflect the Environmental Offsets (Transitional)
Regulation 2014 (Qld), which expired on 1 July 2015. This changed
the assessment criteria for assessable development under relevant
provisions of the Koala SPRP.
The draft amendments to the Koala SPRP require that site design
avoid clearing non-juvenile koala habitat trees in certain listed
areas, with any unavoidable clearing minimised and offset under the
Environmental Offsets Act 2014 (Qld). Under the previous Koala
SPRP, unavoidable clearing was to be minimised and offset at a
ratio of five new koala habitat trees for every one
