Bushfire Hazard Statement

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        which includes a maintained, powerline easement and several internal, recreational tracks (see
        Photographic Plate 5). We note the vegetation of the Wooroi Day Use Area close to the road and
        powerline easement has been burnt within the last 3 years (see Photographic Plate 6).
       East of subject site consists of a vegetated, waterway corridor, Lomandra Place Bushland Reserve (see
        Photographic Plate 4), which contains a degraded woodland canopy of Paperbark teatree, Melaleuca
        quinquenervia Swamp box, Lophostemon suaveolens and Black sheoak, Allocasuarina littoralis with an
        understorey dominated by a range of environmental weed species such as Umbrella tree, Schefflera
        actinophylla, Singapore daisy, Sphagneticola trilobata in the eastern and central portions.
       In addition, Lomandra Place Bushland Reserve also contains a waterhole which occupies a significant
        portion of the width of the park toward the western end of the Park.
       We did note the western portions of the Lomandra Place Bushland Reserve and the area within the
        subject site appear to have less disturbance from environmental weeds and contains more an
        understorey and groundcover consistent with coastal paperbark wetlands.
       We also noted, Lomandra Park nor the vegetated portion of the Carramar Noosa site is not mapped as
        remnant vegetation. Furthermore, the area is also not mapped as remnant in the latest version 10
        Regional ecosystem mapping over South-east Queensland or Bioregion 12.




                                                                       Current fenceline
                                                                       (Approx)

Figure 2 – Aerial image

The Noosa Plan (2013)

       The Noosa Plan (2013) Natural hazards overlay map does not map any areas within the subject site nor
        the adjacent Lomandra Place Bushland Reserve as being a Bushfire hazard area. we note under the
        State Planning Policy – Natural Hazards, Risk and Resilience – Technical Manual corridors of
        vegetation less than 100 metres can be mapped in accordance with the dominant adjacent bushfire
        hazard class and as the adjacent areas are mapped as Low bushfire hazard, the waterway corridor is
        also mapped as an area of Low bushfire hazard.
       The Noosa Plan does however map the vegetation in the Tewantin National Park to the south of the site
        and a small portion to the south east of the site as Very high potential bushfire Intensity (see Figure 3).
        As a consequence, the 100-metre-wide Potential impact buffer extends over more than half of the
        southern portion of the site.
       As the site is affected by area mapped as Very high potential bushfire hazard and the Potential impact
        buffer, a response to the Natural Hazards Overlay Code is required (see Attachment I below).