Thomson Hay Project
Huonville Link Road, Huonville
Client
Burbury Consulting / Department of State Growth (Tasmania)
Collaboration
Burbury Consulting
For the Huon Link Road project, we delivered detailed landscape and biodiversity offset plans that support safer, more efficient travel through Huonville while protecting and restoring the local landscape. Our design integrates road corridor screening, batter stabilisation, low-maintenance planting and locally sourced native species, alongside a long-term revegetation and management strategy for the project’s biodiversity offset area.
The Huon Link Road project will reduce congestion and improve safety in Huonville’s town centre, creating a new connection between the Huon Highway / Orchard Avenue intersection and Flood Road / Knights Road.
The road alignment passes through a diverse rural landscape of apple orchards, a former public golf course and open farmland. A new shared path within the road reserve will improve connections and provide a safer route for pedestrians and cyclists.
We prepared detailed landscape and biodiversity offset plans for the project. Under the Huon Valley Interim Planning Scheme 2015 Biodiversity Offset Code, removal of 0.568 hectares of native vegetation with moderate-priority biodiversity value required an onsite offset.
Our work identified areas for rehabilitation and provided a revegetation and long-term management strategy. The offset area will be rehabilitated, revegetated and managed through the Department of State Growth Roadside Conservation Sites Program.
The landscape design balances road safety, operational requirements and local character. Planting provides road and shared-path screening where space permits, stabilises batters and exposed surfaces, and uses low-maintenance, locally appropriate species, including local-provenance stock where available.
Working with the client and Indigenous plant nurseries in southern Tasmania, we coordinated plant supply and optimal planting timing to deliver resilient landscape outcomes and support the long-term recovery of native vegetation.
