RFI - Bushfire Hazard Assessment and Management Plan

                                                        Bushfire Hazard Assessment and Management Plan



Vegetation Hazard Classes (VHCs) provided within the Bushfire Prone Area – Vegetation hazard class
– South east Queensland spatial dataset were reviewed for the site and surrounding land (Figure 5).
The following VHCs are mapped within the required 150 m assessment area:

    •   2.1 Complex to simple, semi-deciduous mesophyll to notophyll vine forest;

    •   8.1 – Wet Eucalypt tall open forest;

    •   9.1 – Moist to dry eucalypt forest on coastal lowlands and ranges;

    •   9.2 - Moist to dry eucalypt woodland on coastal lowlands and ranges; and

    •   40.4 – Continuous low grass or tree cover.

The reliability of State-mapped VHCs was assessed through:

    •   review of Vegetation management remnant and pre-clearing regional ecosystem (RE) mapping
        published by the Department of Resources (DoR); and

    •   an assessment of existing vegetation on the site and surrounding properties undertaken by
        Green Tape Solutions in April 2022 as part of site investigations to support preparation of a
        BHAMP.

DoR’s remnant RE mapping shows that the majority of the assessment area is mapped as remnant
vegetation, containing the following REs (Figure 6):

    •   RE 12.11.2 - Eucalyptus saligna or E. grandis, E. microcorys, Lophostemon confertus tall open
        forest on metamorphics +/- interbedded volcanics

    •   RE12.11.3 - Eucalyptus siderophloia, E. propinqua +/- E. microcorys, Lophostemon confertus,
        Corymbia intermedia, E. acmenoides open forest on metamorphics +/- interbedded volcanics;
        and

    •   RE12.11.10 - Notophyll vine forest +/- Araucaria cunninghamii on metamorphics +/- interbedded
        volcanics

    •   RE 12.11.16 - Eucalyptus cloeziana open forest on metamorphics +/- interbedded volcanics

The site assessment determined that vegetation within the 150 m assessment area consists of a mosaic
of native vegetation, landscape vegetation and areas of maintained grassland/lawn with low tree cover.
The site is predominantly vegetated, with some cleared paddocks to the north. Much of the vegetation
surrounding the house site consists of canopy trees with a managed grassy understorey. Vegetation
adjacent to and within proximity of the development consists of four (4) site-verified communities.

    •   Vegetation community 1 – Eucalypt forest south and south-west of house site

Vegetation located to the south and south-west of the house site consists of a remnant eucalypt forest
(plates 1 and 2). Species present include grey ironbark (Eucalyptus siderophloia), pink bloodwood
(Corymbia intermedia), Gympie messmate (Eucalyptus cloeziana), Qld grey gum (Eucalyptus major),
and brush box (Lophostemon confertus). The midstory consists of Acacia sp., small leaved fig (Ficus
obliqua), celerywood (Polyscias elegans), soap tree (Alphitonia excelsa), muttonwood (Myrsine
variabilis) and juvenile canopy species. This community has only small amounts of weed incursion,
mainly in the form of exotic grasses such as Guinea grass, (Megathyrsus maximus) and lantana




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