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




7.2 State Planning Policy – Natural Hazards, Risk and Resilience
The Department of State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning’s State Planning
Policy – State interest guidance material – Natural hazards, risk and resilience – Bushfire (December
2019) contains the development assessment benchmarks for natural hazards, risk and resilience -
bushfire. The SPP assessment benchmarks prevail over those prescribed in the Noosa Plan
Bushfire Hazard Overlay Code where they involve the same design elements. An assessment of the
proposed development’s compliance with each of the assessment benchmarks has been provided
below.
Assessment Benchmark 3
For development in a bushfire prone area involving vulnerable uses
1. Vulnerable uses are not established or intensified within the bushfire prone area unless:
a. there is an overriding need in the public interest for the new or expanded service the development
provides
b. there are no other suitable alternative location within the required service catchment, and
c. site planning can appropriately mitigate the risk (for example, siting ovals for an educational
establishment between the hazardous vegetation and structure.
The vulnerable use is already established within the bushfire prone area and no intensification of
people living or congregating on the site is proposed.
The development design makes use of existing and proposed bushfire mitigation measures that
appropriately mitigate the risk.
Assessment Benchmark 4
Assessable Development
Development contributes to an effective and efficient emergency response and recovery capabilities.
In the first instance, this can be achieved by new or expanded community infrastructure that is
providing essential services (emergency services, hospital and educational establishment) not being
in a bushfire prone area, as addressed in assessment benchmark 3.
To ensure emergency services can respond effectively, development is located within a reticulated
water supply area or includes a dedicated static water supply that is available solely for fire-fighting
purposes and can be accessed by fire-fighting vehicles.
Reticulated water is available to the site.
Assessment Benchmark 5
Assessable material change of use
Site layout places the landscape and open spaces within the site between premises and adjacent
mapped medium, high or very high potential bushfire intensity areas. This landscaping and open
space comprises protective landscape treatments that:
1. Comprise only low threat vegetation, including grassland managed in a minimal fuel condition16,
maintained lawns, golf courses and cultivated gardens; or
2. Are designed to ensure a potential available fuel load is maintained at less than 8 tonnes/hectare
in aggregate and with a fuel structure that remains discontinuous.
Note – The landscape or open space may be located within the mapped medium, high and very high
intensity areas to create a separation between the development and the balance of the bushfire
prone area.
The proposed development footprint boundary is separated from the hazardous vegetation areas. It
is recommended that any new landscaping associated with the proposed works maximises the use
of low-flammability species and or avoids clustering of flammable species.
Where involving a requirement for revegetation or rehabilitation outside of bushfire prone areas




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