Kinlyside Offset Area

Kinlyside Offset Area map — View larger image

Associated Development: Gungahlin Urban Development

Commonwealth approval: Strategic assessment of urban development at Gungahlin, ACT

Length of Gungahlin Strategic Assessment approval: 1 January 2043. Following this date, the offset area will be incorporated into the Canberra Nature Park.

Associated Nature Reserve: Kinlyside Nature Reserve

Where is the Kinlyside Offset Area?

The Kinlyside Offset Area (282.1 Ha) is located across the Kinlyside Nature Reserve (closed reserve) and adjoining leased land. The offset area is immediately adjacent to the Casey residential area and is approximately 200 metres north-east of the village of Hall. The offset area is approximately four kilometres from each of the Dunlop , Gungaderra and Mulanggari Nature Reserves.

Halls Creek, which is a tributary of Gooromon Ponds Creek flows from within the offset area. Gooromon Ponds Creek converges downstream with Ginninderra Creek (within the Jarramlee Offset Area), which flows west to the confluence with the Murrumbidgee River into NSW.

Why is it an offset?

Kinlyside has conservation objectives concerning Matters of National Environmental Significance (MNES), protected under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). Specifically:

Box-Gum Grassy Woodland (4.6 MB) (White box - Yellow box- Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland and derived native grassland)
Golden Sun Moth (Synemon plana) (439.0 KB)
Pink-tailed Worm-lizard (Aprasia parapulchella) (1.0 MB)

Pink-tailed worm-lizard (Aprasia parapulchella) — Pink-tailed Worm-lizard (*Aprasia parapulchella*)

What else is special about the Kinlyside Offset Area?

Connectivity

The Kinlyside Offset Area forms part of network of remnant patches of box gum grassy woodland that extends from Hall, across northern Gungahlin to the Federal Highway and beyond to the Majura Valley. Combined, these remnants form one of the largest, best connected and most diverse patches of Box-Gum Grassy Woodland remaining in south-eastern Australia.

Threatened fauna

Painted Honeyeater (Grantiella picta)
Scarlet Robin (Petroica boodang)
White-winged Triller (Lalage sueurii)
Varied Sittella (Daphoenositta chrysoptera)
Brown Treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus)
Diamond Firetail (Stagonopleura guttata)
Flame Robin (Petroica phoenicea)
Hooded Robin (Melanodryas cucullata)
Speckled Warbler (Chthonicola sagittata)
Superb Parrot (Polytelis swainsonii)

Threatened flora

Forest Sun Orchid (Thelymitra arenaria)
Pale Flax Lily (Dianella longifolia)
Yam Daisy (Microseris lanceolata)
The Goldenstar (Hypoxis hygrometrica)

Find out about threatened flora and fauna in our action plans and fact sheets. You can also find useful information through the NSW Government threatened biodiversity profile search and PlantNET.

Ngunnawal Country and People

Kinlyside Offset Area is located on Ngunnawal Country, an ancient and diverse landscape managed by Ngunnawal people for tens of thousands of years. For time immemorial Ngunnawal people have maintained a tangible and intangible cultural, social, environmental, spiritual, and economic connection to these lands and waters.

The offset areas support cultural heritage sites including sites of aboriginal cultural significance, including trees where bark and timber were once removed for Aboriginal cultural use and features of nineteenth century landscape use. A large number of registered artefacts have been recorded within the Offset Area.

The Heritage Act 2004 makes particular provision for recognising, registering and conserving Aboriginal places and objects. Under the Act it is an offence to damage, disturb or destroy any Aboriginal place or object. Find out more about registration and protection of Aboriginal places and objects at:

European heritage

From European settlement, the area has a long history of sheep grazing and beef production.