Combined Constraints Property Report Ecology and Heritage

Biosis have local offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Geelong, Wollongong, Newcastle, Penrith, Ballarat, Bendigo, Wangaratta and Hobart.

A Biosis Combined Constraints Report (CCR) is a vital tool for planners and developers to inform their fatal flaws assessment during the planning stages of a project. Before committing to a preferred project design, planning pathway, or even during the early stages of a site proposal, consider getting a Biosis Combined Constraints Report across ecology and heritage constraints to quickly identify potentially sensitive ecosystems or areas of cultural significance.

Depending on the site location and available data CCRs provide an efficient desktop assessment to generate insightful risk modelling and reduce unknown impacts on a proposed project, enabling better decision making for timelines and planning.

Biosis has been servicing the ecology and heritage needs of industry in NSW and Victoria for over 40 years and can offer significant in-house expertise and local knowledge to help your team identify potentially high value areas within a project site.

If there are areas that have been publicly recorded, or sites that are likely to contain areas of ecological or cultural significance, Biosis will identify them. Biosis will deliver a combined constraints analysis report within a few weeks of commissioning, incorporating GIS spatial modelling and technical analysis provided by senior advisors across the ecology and heritage teams.

They will determine the level of potential risk to your project schedule or any significant areas of value you may need to consider during the early planning approvals process.

Report Delivery Timeframe

1-4 Weeks

Constraints Report Content (CCR)

• A single consolidated map/GIS dataset displaying ecological constraints across your project area as a heat map representing relative constraint/risk level. This layer is created using GIS modelling techniques with parameters adjusted for local variations that combine:
  • Previously recorded threatened species sightings.
  • Potential and likely habitat derived from vegetation mapping.
  • Offsets from important features such as wetlands and waterways.
  • Potential threatened ecological communities.
  • Offsets from protected areas such as national parks and state forests.
• A consolidated map/GIS dataset, similar to the above, displaying heritage constraints based on the following:
  • Previously recorded Aboriginal heritage sites.
  • Commonwealth, state and locally listed historical heritage sites and conservation areas.
  • Predicted Aboriginal archaeological potential sub-model based on waterway proximity and magnitude, significant landscape features and landforms, native vegetation and known or likely disturbance.

• Ecological contextual analysis and advice.
• Heritage contextual analysis and advice.