Property development across Australia requires careful consideration of biodiversity impacts at local, regional, national, and international levels.
Biodiversity at Ingenia Communities sits within a robust framework of local, state, and federal environmental planning and development legislation – and forms an important part of our broader environmental commitments.
Our approach to biodiversity conservation is guided by this regulatory framework, which includes:
Requirements to assess and protect threatened species, waterways, and ecologically significant habitats
Application of planning instruments such as Local Environmental Plans (LEPs) and zoning controls
Rigorous ecological investigations at each stage of planning and development.
Many of our communities are located in coastal and regional areas with significant natural environments. We are committed to managing biodiversity sensibly, integrating habitat protection and enhancement into development planning and site management where relevant.
Biodiversity considerations are incorporated into the environmental assessment process for new acquisitions and developments.
All development proposals are supported by assessments conducted by qualified ecologists. Where biodiversity values are identified, conditions of consent typically require one or more of the following:
Protection or restoration of habitat
Biodiversity offsets
Ongoing planning controls
Defined ownership and management responsibilities.
Beyond regulatory compliance, we are actively evolving our approach to biodiversity and nature-related risks, recognising that biodiversity is increasingly relevant to long-term asset resilience and investor expectations.
Embedding sustainability into the design and operation of communities is essential to our ESG strategy – recognising that the greatest opportunity to influence environmental outcomes lies in the creation of new communities, which continue to impact our residents, the environment and local communities longer term.
