Attachment 5 - Bushfire Hazard Assessment & Management Plan

Bushfire Hazard Assessment & Management Plan v1                                                                                                                                                               NCES REF: J000542
Lot 9 on RP225312 – 100 Cooyar Street, Noosa Heads




Table 2 – Table 8.2.3.3 Bushfire Hazard Areas – Part 8 Overlay Code Noosa Plan 2020


 PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES                                            ACCEPTABLE OUTCOMES                                                       PROPOSED SOLUTION

 Safety of people and property

 PO1                                            AO1.1                                                                                      This Bushfire Hazard Assessment and Management Plan has been prepared to
 Development maintains the safety of people and Development which will materially increase the number of people                            maintain the safety of people and property from the adverse impacts of bushfire.
 property from the adverse impacts of bushfire. living or congregating on premises, including reconfiguring a lot, is not
                                                                                                                                           AO1.1 – No increase in the number of people living or congregating on premises
                                                located within a medium or high bushfire hazard area.
                                                                                                                                           is proposed.
                                                                 AO1.2                                                                     AO1.2 – The majority of the proposed development footprint occupies the
                                                                 Development maximises setbacks from hazardous vegetation to               existing building footprint. Only minor extension of the southern portion of the
                                                                 achieve an acceptable risk.                                               existing development footprint would arise. The development maximises the
                                                                                                                                           setbacks via incorporation of all land between the building and the limit of the
                                                                 Editor’s Note —PSP8 Natural Hazards provides guidance for                 NSC fire break as the APZ. The extent of separation proposed in conjunction
                                                                 assessing bushfire hazard risk and preparing a bushfire hazard            with the mitigating circumstances mentioned within this report has been
                                                                 management plan.                                                          identified herein as generating an acceptable risk.



 Impact on Ecologically Important Areas

 PO2                                                  No acceptable outcome provided                                                       No new clearing is deemed necessary to enact bushfire mitigation measures on
 Bushfire mitigation measures do not adversely impact                                                                                      the site hence the development will not adversely impact on biodiversity values,
 on:                                                                                                                                       connectivity, ecosystem functioning, and the long-term physical integrity of
                                                                                                                                           waterways, wetlands and areas of native vegetation.
 a) biodiversity values, connectivity and ecosystem
 functioning; and
 b) the long term physical integrity of waterways, wetland
 and areas of native vegetation.

 Water Supply for Fire Fighting Purposes
                                                                                                                                           AO3.1 – Reticulated water will be provided to the site.
 PO3                                                        AO3.1
 Development provides an adequate water supply for Premises are connected to the reticulated water supply.
 firefighting purpose which is reliable, safely located and
 freely accessible.                                         Editor's note—For reconfiguring a lot, water supply needs to provide
                                                            for a minimum flow and pressure of 10 litres a second at 200kPa at all
                                                            times for firefighting purposes.

                                                                 OR

                                                                 AO3.2
                                                                 Where there is no available reticulated water supply, the premises
                                                                 has:

                                                                 a) an accessible dam, swimming pool or water tank available for
                                                                 firefighting purposes with an onsite water volume of not less than
                                                                 5,000 litres; and
                                                                 b) a water supply outlet pipe 50 millimetres in diameter fitted with a
                                                                 standard fire brigade fitting connected to the water supply (other than
                                                                 where the water supply is in a swimming pool or dam).




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