The QLD Government has released Practice Note 1 Regional biodiversity values land use and management policy that provides regional biodiversity values (RBV) policy recommendations to guide a consistent approach to protect and manage mapped RBV.
The information in the practice note can be used to inform regional and local land use and management planning prepared under the Planning Act 2016, including local government planning schemes (as matters of local environmental significance), and non-statutory land use and natural resource management plans.
The practice note contributes to implementing the biodiversity outcomes of the following policy and legislative instruments:
- Environmental Planning Act 1994
- Nature Conservation Act 1992
- Planning Act 2016?
- Queensland State Planning Policy (matters of Local environmental significance)
- Conserving Nature—a Biodiversity Conservation Strategy for Queensland
- Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan
- Reef 2050 Wetlands Strategy.
