Attachment A to Judgment for 19Aug 2024 (6)

1          Introduction
Land and Environment Consultants Pty Ltd (LEC) was engaged to prepare a bushfire management plan
(BMP) for the proposed reconfiguration of lot (I lot into 8 lots) (proposed development) at 111 Lake
Weyba Drive, Noosaville (the site), properly described as lot 4/RP36729.
An application for a development permit to reconfigure the site from 1 lot into 12 lots was made under
provisions of the superseded Noosa Plan 2006 (superseded Planning Scheme). The application was
refused by Noosa Council (Council) on 17 December 2021 and this decision was appealed in the
Planning and Environment Court -appeal number D23 of 2022 (the appeal).
The parties in the appeal reached a provisional agreement that the proposed development shown in
the overall development layout plan in Appendix 1, should be approved subject to agreement on
development conditions, and then to Council resolving to adopt the agreement to settle the appeal.
This BMP has been prepared in response to the provisional agreement.
Under the superseded Planning Scheme, the site was subject to the Natural hazards overlay – ‘high
potential bushfire intensity’ and ‘potential impact buffer’. The adjacent Noosa National Park – Lake
Weyba Section (Noosa National Park) and private properties to the south are also mapped as
containing high potential bushfire intensity areas.
This BMP has been prepared in accordance with Bushfire Resilient Communities Technical Reference

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Guide for the State Planning Policy State Interest ‘Natural Hazards, Risk and Resilience – Bushfire’ (QFES
2019a) (Bushfire resilient communities) which was prepared by the Queensland Fire and Emergency
Services (QFES) to provide technical guidance for the implementation of the Natural Hazards, Risk and
Resilience – Bushfire, State Planning Policy State Interest guidance material (DSDMIP 2019). It adopts
the bushfire hazard assessment and radiant heat exposure assessment in the bushfire joint expert
report (JER), dated 14 October 2022, that was prepared for the appeal.
This BMP documents the bushfire hazard assessment of the site and demonstrates how the proposed
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development will comply with the agreed requirements of the bushfire management conditions in
Council’s draft development conditions. It includes:
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•     an introduction (this section) and description of methods and information resources used for the
      preparation of this BMP;
•     description of the site and proposed development;
•     bushfire hazard assessment;
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•     identification of bushfire hazards associated with the site and proposed development;
•     radiant heat exposure assessment; and
•     a plan for mitigating bushfire hazards.

1.1        Method
To meet requirements of Bushfire resilient communities, the following tasks were undertaken:
•     review of the Queensland regional ecosystem (RE) map, vegetation hazard class (VHC) map, severe
      fire weather map and fire history map in the QFES online mapping system (QFES 2022) (Catalyst);
•     inspection of land within 100 metres (m) of the site for vegetation characteristics, current land
      management practices, slope and evidence of previous fires;
•     bushfire hazard assessment in accordance with the method in Bushfire resilient communities; and
•     radiant heat exposure assessment using the Fire Protection Association of Australia BAL calculator
      V4.9 (BAL calculator) which models the ‘method 2’ bushfire attack level (BAL) assessment


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