Developer's bid to subdivide vital Cooroy habitat
However the couple's planning report said the environmental protection covenant would protect the "ecologically significant vegetation from clearing or disturbance". It also maintained the house site would be built with a suitable effluent disposal area and include the required bushfire hazard reductions. This is part of the forest coverage on the proposed Cooroy development site which would be protected. "The prescribed bushfire mitigation measures do not adversely impact on the biodiversity values of the site," the planning report said. A covenant would protect about 17,000 sqm or 63 ...