If you need to buy native vegetation offsets, you can purchase them through Nillumbik Shire Council’s over-the-counter Native Vegetation Offset Program.
The program helps applicants to meet their offset requirements, as outlined in their planning permit conditions.
Trading of credits is governed by and recorded on the Victoria Government’s Native Vegetation Credit Register. For more information go to the Department of Environment's Offsets for the removal of native vegetation page.
Buying offset credits from the NVOP
Cost of our native vegetation credits
We sell credits (General and Species Habitat units) at a fixed price. Prices are set using a costing model based on the cost of establishing and managing the offset site, any liability or risk, running the program and the market value of native vegetation credits.
Offset sites – what are they
A native vegetation offset is a site that protects existing patches of native vegetation and large old trees, or it may sometimes require planting of new native vegetation. An offset site is protected by a title agreement, has a management plan and is registered on the state Native Vegetation Credit Register.
NVOP – why we run this service
Council started the program to:
- make the processing of planning applications more efficient
- streamline any of our projects and works that require the removal of native vegetation
- retain vegetation offsets within our municipality
- improve the quality and extent of vegetation at offset sites.
More information
Native vegetation removal and offsets – planning advice