Environmental sustainability is a key focus for Bushmead’s development and its design centres around the conservation, protection and rehabilitation of surrounding flora and fauna. Key considerations included the presence of spent bullets that could pose a contamination risk, remnant vegetation of high conservation value and a neighbouring poultry farm with an odour buffer zone that extended into the Bushmead site.
To navigate these constraints and secure positive planning and development yield outcomes for Cedar Woods, our team undertook contamination and remediation investigations, flora and fauna surveys, an Environmental Assessment Report which underpinned the site’s re-zoning, and developed key management plans.