Hornsby Shire Council

Attachment to Report No. EN47/08 Page 0

Attachment-1 Amendments following Public Exhibition

Source:	Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment Management Authority (HNCMA) D01046745
Comment:	“The DLHEMP includes a number of actions where the HNCMA considers that it does have a support role which has not been identified. The HNCMA would be willing to be identified as an agency with a support role for these actions.”
Response:	Action 2v, 9a, 8b, 8d, 2g, 2t, 2w, 8e, 15e, 16f, amended to include the HNCMA as a support agency
Comment:	“There are a number of actions where the HNCMA has been inappropriately identified as having either a lead or support role.”
Response	Action 9e, 8a, 2n, 11a, 11b, 11d, 11e, 12e, 12f, amended to remove the HNCMA as having either a lead or support role.
Comment:	“The HNCMA is generally in agreement with our involvement in the following actions; however we note that other agencies with key responsibility have not been identified.”
Response:	Action 1a, 6a, 13a, 2s, 6i, 6j amended to incorporate agencies as recommended by the HNCMA.
Source:	Gosford City Council (GCC) D01046408
Comment:	“Within GCC the Integrated Planning Unit has identified the following sections of Council that may have responsibilities for implementation of the DLHEMP.”
Response:	Action 1a, 2e, 1b, 1g, 1d, 2v, 10a, 6a, 9b, 1f, 9a, 9c, 12h, 2d, 8b, 8c, 9e, 10b, 4a, 5a, 15a, 2a, 15b, 11a, 10d, 8d, 13a, 13b, 2b, 1h, 2n, 15d amended as requested by GCC to incorporate internal service responsibilities
Source:	Town Planning Services (TPS) D01011070
Comment:	“Sufficient staff and budget resources for most strategies will be provided within the Strategic Planning Program over the next three years to 2011.”
Response:	Noted
Comment:	“edits for consistency”
Response:	Action 1b, 2a, 6a amended as requested by TPS.
Comment:	Appendix-D Guidelines for Estuary Asset Protection “Any ‘must’ statements should be reworded as ‘should’ statements and guidelines should not incorporate restrictions required to be addressed ‘prior to consent’”.
Response:	Amended as requested
Source:	Diane Campbell, Biodiversity Planning and Management (D01046413)
Comment:	“Team would like to be involved in the plan implementation, future reviews and stakeholder workshops.”
Response:	Noted
Comment:	“Saltmarsh section needs to mention that significant losses of saltmarsh is also due to clearing, filling and land reclamation….and the remaining areas are under threat from weed invasion by Juncus acutus”
Response:	Amended as requested
Comment:	“Bushland and Biodiversity Management Team would like to take a lead responsibility for action 1k a shared lead responsibility for actions 1a, 2d, 2e, and support responsibilities for actions 1e, 1f, 10a, 10d, 13a, and 13b.”
Response:	Amended as requested
Source:	John Carrick (D00991369)
Comment:	“I would like Council to remove from the DLHEMP that part of the Acid Sulfate Soils which relates to moving silt”
Response:	Noted but no amendments incorporated. Acid sulfate soils present significant risk to human health and ecological functioning, management of such risk is a key component of this Plan.
Source:	Cate Faehrmann, Nature Conservation Council, (D01031637)
Comment:	“The protection of the Lower Hawkesbury estuarine system is of high importance and the proposed actions should be implemented as quickly as possible.”
Response:	Noted