Code Assessments · MCU21/0015

CODE ASSESSMENTS

Flood Hazard Overlay Code
Performance outcomes                                      Acceptable outcomes                                          Response
                                                                   the PMF, if it is for emergency
                                                                   services (including emergency shelters, police
                                                                   facilities, hospitals and associated facilities).
Earthworks
PO10                                                      AO10                                                         Performance Outcome Complies
Excavation and filling for operational works only         Filling, other than accessways:
occur where they:                                                                                                      The proposed fill does not comply with AO10.1 in that the fill in
                                                                                                                       the back yards will be more than 3 m from the building, but to
                                                                    1.   does not extend more than the equivalent      not fill that section would create a depression. Filling the very
          1.   result in the protection, rehabilitation                  of 3 metres around the main building,         back of the site would simply raise the ground level to match
               and repair of ecologically important                      measured from the outer walls of              the ground level of fill in the sites all around the subject site.
               areas, watercourses, drainage lines                       the building;
               and wetlands;                                        2.   is limited to a maximum of 500m2; and
          2.   do not adversely impact on the                       3.   does not impact on the local drainage of
               overall hydrology, hydraulics and                         adjoining properties.
               flood capacity of a waterway;
          3.   do not directly, indirectly or
               cumulatively cause adverse impacts
               external to the site;
          4.   do not cause increased flooding,
               which adversely affects the safety or
               use of any land upstream or
               downstream;
          5.   do not cause ponding of water on
               the site or nearby land;
          6.   do not result in a reduction in flood
               storage capacity;
          7.   do not adversely affect the flow of
               water in any overland flow path; and                                                                    (site showing wrap around contour line caused by filling on
          8.   do not adversely affect the privacy or                                                                  adjoining sites)
               visual amenity of surrounding
               property.

Editor’s Note— The Earthworks Code sets out
further requirements for earthworks.
Hazardous materials


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