OPW052025 Report - Part 2

Bushfire management                Table 8.2.2.3 - Criteria for assessable development (part)
Performance outcomes                                                 Acceptable outcomes                                                                   Response

Bushfire management

PO12                                                                 No acceptable outcome provided                                 Not applicable as the proposed driveway follows an
Bushfire management measures are adopted based on                                                                                   existing track located through the allotment.
ecological principles, which:
(a)    maintain and enhance biodiversity;
(b)    minimise threat of fire to the natural environment, as well
       as life and property; and
(c)    provide for effective use and maintenance of buildings and
       structures.

Editor's note—The performance outcome applies to properties in
bushfire hazard areas and only where clearing is reasonably
necessary for the control of bushfire risk to a building or
structure. Bushfire hazard areas are shown on Bushfire Hazard
Overlay maps in Schedule 2.


Scenic amenity           Table 8.2.2.3 - Criteria for assessable development (part)
Performance outcomes                                                 Acceptable outcomes                                                                   Response
Scenic amenity
PO13                                                                 AO13.1                                                         The proposed driveway follows an existing track located
The scenic amenity and vegetated character of the landscape          Vegetation is retained:                                        through the allotment with minimal to no clearing.
is protected by retaining vegetation:                                (a)   on and within 30 metres of prominent ridgelines and on   Performance Outcome PO13 and Acceptable Outcome
                                                                                                                                    AO13.1 can be met.
(a)    along and around watercourses and drainage lines;                   sloping sites;

(b)    on steep slopes and ridgelines;                               (b)   in gullies;

(c)    along the major road network; and                             (c)   along watercourses and drainage lines;

(d)    that forms coastal vistas to and from beaches.                (d)   within 10 metres of the major road network; and
                                                                     (e)   along the front coastal dune system.