What is the Native Vegetation Act 2003 Public Register?

What does the Public Register include?

The Minister is required by law to make publicly available on the internet the following information about Property Vegetation Plans (PVPs) and Development Consents approved under the Native Vegetation Act 2003:

• information relating to the approval of broadscale clearing of native vegetation
• information specifying a date for the definition of regrowth
• information about PVPs and Development Consents that approve broadscale clearing where CMA discretion has been exercised
• information on clearing of native vegetation for essential local government infrastructure
• information on approved increases to infrastructure RAMA buffer distances
• information relating to the approval of Private Native Forestry PVPs

Incentive PVPs and Continuing Use PVPs are not included in the public register, except those Continuing Use PVPs that specify a date for the definition of regrowth.

The information provided in the public register has been developed to satisfy the requirements of section 57 of the Privacy and Personal Information Act 1998.

Using the two searches available on this site you can access the following up-to-date information:

What are the register categories?

Information about PVPs and Development Consents that approve broadscale clearing and/or specify a date for the definition of regrowth

• CMA
• Approval Number
• Approval date
• Clearing Location (Latitude & Longitude)
• Clearing Area - Area (ha) of clearing approved where environmental outcomes are improved or maintained
• Thinning Area - Area (ha) of Thinning approved where environmental outcomes are improved or maintained (Thinning means clearing that comprises thinning vegetation to benchmark stem densities)
• Paddock Tree Count - Number of paddock trees removed where environmental outcomes improved or maintained
• Paddock Tree Area - Estimated area (ha) of Paddock Trees Removed
• Offset Location (Latitude & Longitude)
• Offset Area - Area (ha) of offset used to improve or maintain environmental outcomes
• INS Location - Invasive Native Scrub Treatment Location (Latitude & Longitude)
• INS Area - Area Approved under PVP for Invasive Native Scrub Treatment (ha) ^*
• Regrowth Date - Date Specified in PVP for the purposes of Regrowth Definition
• Regrowth Location - Regrowth date change location (Latitude & Longitude)

* PVPs for Invasive Native Scrub (INS) are designed to maintain or create a mosaic of vegetation states across the landscape. The INS figures on the Register are the areas of INS to be managed, rather than the the areas of INS that can be cleared."

Information about PVPs and Development Consents that approve broadscale clearing where CMA discretion has been exercised

• CMA
• Approval Number
• Approval dates
• CMA discretion Date
• Summary of CMA discretion
• CMA discretion report

Information on clearing of native vegetation for essential local government infrastructure

• CMA
• Council
• Approval date
• Type of infrastructure works – eg sewerage treatment works, waste disposal landfill operations, waste management facilities (including recycling depots and transfer stations), water supply works, gravel pits and cemeteries
• Infrastructure works location (latitude and longitude)
• Infrastructure works area (ha)
• Clearing location (latitude and longitude)
• Clearing area (ha)
• Managed area location (latitude and longitude)
• Managed area (ha)
• Method of protection of the managed area – eg Incentive PVP, Voluntary Conservation Agreement, registered on title, Conservation PVP

Information on approved increases to infrastructure RAMA buffer distances

• CMA
• Approval date
• Type of structure
• Infrastructure buffer distance being varied – list the clause of the Native Vegetation Regulation 2005 being varied
• Total buffer distance permitted
• Property location (latitude and longitude)
• Reasons for variation

What other information about PVPs and Development Consents is publicly available?

The following additional information is available:

• Detailed information about broadscale clearing and offset provisions in PVPs and Development Consents, as well as any date specified for the definition of regrowth, is available for inspection at CMA principal offices.
• Details relating to financial incentives in a PVP are available to bona fide prospective purchasers on application to the CMA.
• The existence of a PVP on land will be included on planning certificates issued by local councils (section 149 certificates).