Environmental offsets occur as an attempt to compensate for natural values lost through development activity.
Environmental offsets have become commonplace in environmental legislation across Australia including in Queensland.
The delivery of environmental offsets can mean many different things, but generally refers to the following:
Within the Ipswich local government area (LGA), environmental offsets can be triggered in three primary ways:
Ipswich City Council has adopted an Environmental Offsets Policy (PDF, 497.6 KB) that sets key principles and direction for the various levels of offsets that occur within the Ipswich LGA.
This includes:
Please note: in this context Environmental Offsets does not include Offsite Stormwater Quality Improvement Program contributions, nil net loss component of Implementation Guide No. 19 (pursuant to the superseded 2006 Ipswich Planning Scheme) or other offset mechanisms outside of the Queensland Environmental Offsets Act 2014 or Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
As part of the adoption of the Environmental Offset Policy (PDF, 497.6 KB), Council has committed to keep a register of environmental offsets that have either been conditioned or delivered within the Ipswich Local Government Area.
This includes all offsets under the EPBC Act where Council has not been a decision maker.
However, given there is no Federal level offset register, Council has endeavoured to collate all applications into one place.
View the ICC Register of Environmental Offsets (XLSX, 490.9 KB)
Please note the disclaimers at the head of each sheet within the register.
This document includes MNES, MSES and MLES and is current as of July 2024.
Ipswich City Council respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners, the Jagera, Yuggera and Ugarapul people of the Yugara/Yagara Language Group, as custodians of the land and waters we share. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, as the keepers of the traditions, customs, cultures and stories of proud peoples.