FURTHER REPORT - Planning & Environment Committee 6 May 2025 MCU21/0110

                                               Figure 14: Proposed evacuation route

               The applicant’s BHA has been reviewed by a consulting bushfire expert and Council’s Senior
               Environment Officer. Review of the BHA identifies that a suitable methodology has been utilised
               and that the proposed recommendations are supported. A condition requiring the establishment of
               an additional safe evacuation point on the golf course, off site, away from buildings and outside
               the identified bushfire prone area is recommended.
               The review also identified that the Emergency Response Plan does not include any evidence of
               involving the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) in the preparation or that they
               support the proposed solution. However, it is not common practise for QFES to be involved in the
               preparation or review of a BHA or Emergency Response Plan.
               Further communication with the consultant who provided the review stated via email ‘I do not think
               that no involvement of the QFES in the preparation and endorsement of the emergency response
               plan is problematic. The plan includes relevant elements recommended by the New South Wales
               Rural Fire Service in Development Planning - A guide to developing a Bushfire Emergency
               Management and Evacuation Plan (2014) and I accept the proposed measures within the plan’.
               Standard bushfire conditions of approval will require that the bushfire hazard assessment /
               mitigation plan as well as evacuation plan for the development must be provided to the nearest fire
               authority.
               Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands Overlay
               The purpose and outcomes of the Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands overlay code is to protect,
               rehabilitate and enhance ecologically important areas and improve connectivity. The development
               site is mapped under the Noosa Plan 2020 as having environmental values including, ‘Area of
               Biodiversity Significance’ located in the north and along the eastern boundary.
               The very northern patch of vegetation is mapped as ‘MSES Environmental Values’ and ‘State
               Koala Habitat Area (KHA)/Remnant Vegetation. States Regulated Vegetation Management Map
               identified remnant regional ecosystem RE12.2.5 located in the small patch on the north section
               (Corymbia intermedia +/- Lophostemon confertus +/- Banksia spp. +/- Callitris columellaris open
               forest on beach ridges usually in southern half of bioregion) and also RE12.2.5 as essential habitat
               for three frogs (acid frogs), the glossy black-cockatoo, the koala and a wattle species (Acacia
               attenuate).




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