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Bayshore Village will provide richly diverse vegetation within its streets, gardens and courtyards, establishing a natural landscape setting that will be integral to the local natural environment, adding to the area's biodiversity and amenity. Native vegetation will complement the character of the proposed built form and will generate visual continuity throughout the site. |
Plant Selection
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The site will have extensive tree planting varying from groupings of single species to more complex "compositions" in more intensively used courtyards areas, to reflect the way in which the site is seen and used. Trees will vary from some with relatively open canopies to produce filtered, dappled light and others with heavy canopies to provide deep shade, and to lower the ambient temperature. The site design incorporates asset protection zones and buffers which together with appropriate construction standards and carefull selection and location of vegetation to ensure that bushfire risks are not created. |
Species Protection
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The Wallum Froglet inhabits the surrounding areas. Planting in the area designated for habitat rehabilitation will comprise indigenous wetland vegetation to enhance the wetland community for the endangered Wallum Froglet. This habitat area will incorporate other natural features such as stone, rock and hollow logs to provide an optimal environment for fauna to live and thrive. The Wallum Froglet (Crinnia tinnula) is a species of ground-dwelling frog which inhabits coastal areas from South East Queensland all the way down to Sydney's south. Listed as a 'vulnerable' species, the Froglet is subject to 28 priority actions of the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change, with two of the key actions being to retain wetland protection buffers in new coastal developments and protect coastal wetland areas. Bayshore Village will ensure a buffer between the development and the natural habitat, and additional Wallum Froglet habitat in a way that connects important remnant swale sites across the site. The design identifies three Enhancement Areas which will be subject to detailed environmental management plans to increase Froglet numbers by creating sedgeland habitat, with associated shallow depressions, both on-site and on adjacent land to connect Froglet communities. |
Stormwater Discharge Management
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The stormwater management system for the site has been designed to ensure that the hydrology after development will provide the same flows and quality as before development to protect and maintain the Froglet's wetland and sedgeland habitat. |
surrounding habitat
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Areas to the west and south of the site have already had environmental works undertaken to extend the habitat of the Wallum Froglet. These works have been done in close consultation with Council and have incorporated the advice of the foremost experts in the field. |