Page 2515 - Week 06 - Thursday, 10 May 2012
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Mr Corbell: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) Yes. In June 2011 the Territory and Municipal Services Directorate (TAMSD) completed a review of its Land Management Agreements (LMAs).
(2) The June 2011 TAMDS review led to the implementation of:
• a new pro forma that better caters for the capture of critical data. This data can in turn be cooperatively used by rural lessees and TAMS officers to map out the protection of important environmental values on rural leases;
• improved practices for monitoring lessee compliance with LMA conditions, including the use of photo monitoring points;
• improved administration allowing TAMS to track the currency of LMAs to ensure they are reviewed in a timely manner; and
• formalised arrangements with the ACT Planning and Land Authority (ACTPLA) to ensure a coordinated compliance response, noting ACTPLA takes the lead in compliance action.
(3) The recommendation refers to the review of the Nature Conservation Act 1980 not the review of the National Capital Authority (NCA).
(4) The Conservation Council ACT Region received heritage grants for three consecutive years in the 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07 ACT Heritage Grants Program to research and nominate a number of natural sites across the ACT to the ACT Heritage Register.
The Conservation Council recommended that 17 sites in total be nominated for inclusion on the ACT Heritage Register. Of the 17 sites, 10 included grassland habitats. However, the majority were also nominated for other natural features and values. Of the 10 sites, three sites were nominated solely for grassland values and included:
• Natural Temperate Grassland at Barton;
• Grassland Earless Dragon Habitat in the ACT (comprising several areas in the Majura and Jerrabomberra valleys); and
• Natural Temperate Grassland of the ACT (comprising several sites at Barton, Lawson and Majura).
Nine of the grassland habitats were subsequently nominated to the ACT Heritage Register, and were accepted by the ACT Heritage Council as nominations.
In 2009, a consultant was engaged to review the nominations, and provide additional detail to assist the Heritage Council in their registration process.
Three places have now been either provisionally or fully registered on the ACT Heritage Register and include:
• Small purple pea habitat (registered);
• Button Wrinklewort (registered); and
• Kama woodland/grassland (registered).
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