Biosis’s unique property Combined Constraints Report delivers essential insight into heritage and ecology constraints giving clients the key information they need for pre-construction development planning in NSW and Victoria.
Biosis GIS, heritage and ecology consultants are based at local offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Geelong, Wollongong, Newcastle, Penrith, Ballarat, Albury, Central Coast, Wangaratta and Hobart.
A Biosis Combined Constraints Report (CCR) is a vital reporting tool for planners and developers to inform their fatal flaws or risk assessment of ecology and heritage constraints 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 on ecology and heritage constraints related to your project site 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, inform strategic design choices, 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-risk areas within a project site.
If there are areas that have been previously recorded, or places 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, including heat mapping, GIS spatial modelling and technical analysis provided by senior advisors across the ecology and heritage teams.
We will determine areas 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
Combined Constraints Report (CCR)
- A single consolidated map displaying ecological constraints across your project area as a heat map representing relative constraint/risk level:
- 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 displaying heritage constraints tailored to the specific values that drive risk at each site:
- Previously recorded Aboriginal heritage places.
- 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
- A GIS layer will be provided that presents the results of the analysis in a single layer containing both the overall constraints summary and individual values driving constraints at each location.
