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Land for Sale - 40 hectares with house

Sassafras Creek Reserve, 515 Liena Rd, Mole Creek

Offers Around $390,000 Invited

Conservation Values

The Sassafras Creek Reserve has important conservation values including:

• The land is part of the Mole Creek Karst system and is underlain by limestone caves with cave entrances on the property.
• Three forest communities that are not adequately reserved, damp sclerophyll forest, wet white gum forest and brown topped stringybark forest with broad leaf shrubs.
• Habitat for the endangered Tasmanian devil and other marsupial carnivores.

Covenant Conditions

A draft conservation covenant has been prepared for the reserve and will be registered on the title of the land, providing permanent protection for the conservation values. The covenant restricts any activities that may degrade the conservation values, but allows for the land to be used for passive recreation and for fences to be maintained. The house and pasture will be excluded from the covenant. The access track through the forest to the hut will remain open and the hut may be maintained. A management plan will be developed to allow the property to be used in ways that will maintain its conservation values into the future. The Tasmanian Land Conservancy is also able to offer ongoing advice and assistance in managing the land.

Future use of the property

The property has road frontage to Liena Road, the main tourist route to the Mole Creek tourist caves and is a popular route to Cradle Mountain. The house was built in 1990, is of brick veneer construction and has a steel roof. Accommodation includes an open plan living room and kitchen and three bedrooms. Mains power and telephone are connected.

The pasture area is excluded from the covenant but is not separated from it by a fence. If the new owner wishes to run stock, a fence will need to be constructed first.

Background

The property was purchased by the Tasmanian Land Conservancy with funds provided by the Australian Government through the Mole Creek Karst Forest Programme component of the Forest Conservation Fund. Moneys raised from the sale of this property will be deposited in the Forest Conservation Fund Revolving Fund and directed into the purchase of other Revolving Fund properties in Tasmania, extending the value from every dollar within the Fund.