Appendix A - Bushfire Hazard Assessment & Management Plan

Bushfire Hazard Assessment & Management Plan v1                                 NCES REF: J000706
Lot 101 on SP168341 – 9a Jirrima Cres, Cooroibah



6     AUSTRALIAN STANDARD 3959:2018 CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS IN
      BUSHFIRE PRONE AREAS (AS 3959:2018) SETBACKS

The site is mapped within the Natural Hazards Overlay in the Noosa Plan 2020 (refer to Plate
13)




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                                Plate 13 – Noosa Natural Hazards Overlay map

Building works within Designated Bushfire Prone Areas identified on a Bushfire Hazard
Overlay Map prepared under a power of legislation triggers building design assessment under
AS 3959:2018. The Standard provides minimum construction requirements for new habitable
dwellings and habitable building alterations in designated Bushfire Prone Areas. The
construction requirements are intended to improve the performance of buildings subjected to
burning debris, radiant heat or flame contact. Building works in Designated Bushfire Prone
Areas must be built to the Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) construction standard relevant to the
building site as identified by the AS 3959:2018 methodology.
A specific BAL assessment will be required once building plans have been progressed given
the BAL relies on an accurate understanding of the final footprint of the building within the BLE
and is required to be assessed against the active iteration of the Standard at the time of
assessment.
Based on the Plan of Development and the proposed setbacks to hazardous vegetation of
14m, it is anticipated that the future dwelling on Lot 1 will be exposed to a maximum BAL 29
Construction Standard.
LEGISLATION AND OVERLAYS
6.1      Noosa Plan 2020 – Natural Hazards Overlay Code
The proposed development is considered assessable development and therefore is
assessable against Table 13.9 Bushfire Hazard Area of Council’s Natural Hazards Overlay
Code which has been reproduced as Table 5.




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