Huonville Link Road, Huonville

The new Huon Link Road is located between the Huon Highway at the northern end and Flood Road / Knights Road intersection at the southern end - a distance of approximately 500 metres. The new road alignment passes through a number of established land uses including an apple orchard, former public golf course and open farm land. A new shared path will be constructed in the Huon Link Road reserve.

To comply with the Huon Valley Council Planning permit, we prepared a landscape plan, a biodiversity offset plan and a biodiversity offset delivery to guide the landscape and revegetation works within the new road reserve.

Landscape design objectives and considerations included the provision of: 

· Screening along both sides of the new road and shared path

· Rehabilitation, revegetation and management of the biodiversity offset area

· Stable batters and surfaces

· Low maintenance vegetation

· Appealing, low maintenance roadside landscaping

· preservation of local landscape character through use of local provenance plant species where possible

· To consider safety of road users