MCU14/0106 Appendix H - Bushfire Assessment Report

Noosa Civic Expansion
Bushfire Assessment Report




2 Proposed Development
The existing Noosa Civic centre has been operating since October 2006 and is comprised of:
      >    18,585m2 of retail shop floor space and a service station;
      > a 7,056m2 Emporium of retail showrooms;
      > 5,000m2 of commercial office space; and
      > associated car parking areas.
The layout of the existing Noosa Civic and the proposed expansion, which will occupy a development
footprint of approximately 7.8ha including an extension to Hofmann Drive, is illustrated in Figure 1.
The proposed Noosa Civic expansion is located:
      > predominantly within the Shire Business Centre Map E1 Employment precinct;
      > approximately 30-70m to the south-east of the existing Noosa Civic centre;
      > approximately 75m to the west of Walter Hay Drive;
      > to the north of a proposed extension of Hofmann Drive, which would link the existing Hofmann Drive
        to the west with the Walter Hay Drive roundabout to the east.
The proposed development will involve:
      > approximately 22,200 square meters gross floor area (GFA) of additional retail floor space made up
        of two supermarkets, a discount department store and a number of smaller tenancies;
      > 1,000 additional car parking spaces (310 spaces at grade and 690 under-croft spaces);
      > a pedestrian link ‘Covenant J’ situated between the existing shopping centre and the proposed
        development; and
      > the completion of the Hofmann Drive ring road, including its connection to Water Hay Drive.
The proposed development layout plans and cross-sections are presented in Appendix B.
Areas of potentially hazardous vegetation that would be present in the immediate locality of the proposed
development includes vegetation contained within Shire Business Centre Map:
      > OS7 Open Space Precinct situated between the existing Noosa Civic development and the proposed
        development 1;
      > E2 Employment Precinct situated to the south of the Noosa Civic centre and to the west of OS7
        Open Space Precinct;
      > E6 Employment Precinct situated between the internal ring road extension and Walter Hay Drive;
      > E7 Employment Precinct, OS4 Open Space Precinct and OS2 Open Space Precinct situated to the
        south of the planned Hofmann Drive extension; and
      > OS1 Open Space Precinct situated to the east of Walter Hay Drive.
In addition to the above, the following areas also contain potentially hazardous vegetation that contributes to
the bushfire hazard levels that the proposed Noosa Civil expansion would be exposed to:
      > the Noosa National Park (North Weyba Section) and areas of freehold land to the east of Walter Hay
        Drive; and

1 There are some differences between the boundary of Open Space Precinct OS7 as shown on the Business

Centre Map of the Noosa Plan and the registered boundaries of Covenant J which provides for the
preservation of native vegetation in the subject area. For the purposes of this BFHAR the registered
boundaries of Covenant J have been adopted as the area and location of protected vegetation, rather than
Open Space Precinct OS7.
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