Chapter 30 - Sounds Residential Zone c) Vegetation which is not incidental to the clearing of sites, and which comprises more than 5% of the fill material, by volume. 30.1.5.2.3 Exemptions The following activities are exempt from control on the volume of material: a) Any works involving the repair or replacement of any utilities; and b) Support structures for any permitted or approved buildings, signs, fences and works. 30.1.5.3 Vegetation Clearance 30.1.5.3.1 Vegetation clearance is a Permitted Activity provided that: a) Blading or root-raking shall not be used to clear vegetation on slopes of more than 20°; b) Burning shall not be carried out on Class 7e or Class 8 land, when the Fire Weather Index Parameters for the burn are: - drought code - 200 or higher, or - build up index - 40 or higher as notified by the Rural Fire Authority for the burn area, pursuant to the Forest and Rural Fires Act 1977; or c) The proposed vegetation clearance site is not within any Riparian Management Zone specified in Appendix I of Volume Two and the ecology maps in Volume Three of the Plan; and d) The vegetation clearance site shall be revegetated within 24 months of the end of the operation, to a level where the amount of bare ground is no more than 20% greater than prior to vegetation clearance taking place; e) Top soil shall not be removed to a depth greater than 20mm over more than 15% of any vegetation clearance site; f) No more than 0.2 hectares of coastal broadleaved scrub and shrubland is cleared, per Certificate of Title within any 12 month period; or g) No more than 0.2 hectares of indigenous vegetation on ultramafic substrate is cleared, per Certificate of Title within any 12 month period; or h) No more than 0.2 hectares of indigenous forest cleared, per Certificate of Title, within a 12 month period; or i) Naturally occurring indigenous wetland vegetation or naturally occurring indigenous duneland vegetation shall not be cleared, and If the vegetation clearance is: - under plantation forest or - within 50 metres of a plantation forest, and is reasonably necessary to enable the management or harvesting of an existing plantation forest, then conditions (f)-(i) do not apply and the vegetation clearance is permitted subject to conditions (a)-(e). 30 - 5