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                            Figure 13: Location of fire hydrants (blue dots)

Evacuation
The Bushfire Resilient Communities (Technical reference guide for the state planning policy state
interest ‘natural hazards, risk and resilience – Bushfire’) provides advice regarding assembly and
evacuation. Where a planning scheme contains an assessment benchmark for the provision of a
safe assembly or evacuation area, a development condition may articulate how this could be
achieved.
A safe assembly or evacuation area may be a suitable alternative to an evacuation route, where
the site is in an isolated location, and any evacuation route would be long or pass through the
bushfire prone area. A safe assembly or evacuation area would involve:
•    Establishing the safe assembly or evacuation area within the development site and outside
     the identified bushfire prone area.
•    Direct route/s to the designated area designed to ensure:
     o Roads have sufficient capacity for the evacuating population.
     o Occupants are directed away from, rather than towards or through areas with a greater
         potential bushfire intensity.
     o Minimising the length of route through bushfire prone areas
     o Compliance with AS 3745-2010 Planning for emergencies in facilities where it is
         deemed appropriate for isolated developments.
According to the BHA, an emergency response plan and evacuation plan is to be made available
to help guide a series of actions in the event of a vegetation fire involving nearby vegetation,
visitors, or staff, and the need to locate them to ensure their safety until the fire brought under
control by the appropriate authorities. An evacuation plan has been provided; the plan involves
evacuation to the existing country club.




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