Attachment 3 - Bushfire Management Plan · MCU13/0251

SCANLON PROPERTY GROUP

Fire Management Plan – Peregian Beach




2.3          VEGETATION BUFFER
The caravan park area is separated from the remnant wet heath habitat by a strip of highly
disturbed vegetation. This vegetation buffer is comprised of a dense mixture of native and
exotic vegetation. The abundance of exotic weed species in this area is indicative of historical
nutrient levels in storm water run-off.


3.0 BUSHFIRE HAZARD ASSESSMENT
3.1          INTRODUCTION
Fire is natural part of many Australian ecosystems and as such is an essential element to
ensure these ecosystems are maintained and the biodiversity they support are also maintained.

However, when fire comes into conflict with infrastructure such as residential houses and other
infrastructure, an assessment of the hazard is required to properly understand this conflict and
to develop a set of measures to minimise the risk to that infrastructure from fire, which may burn
through a given vegetated area.

Fire is influenced primarily by three main factors, vegetation, slope and aspect. Other climatic
factors such as wind speed and relative humidity also influence the intensity and rate of spread
of a fire however vegetation, slope and aspect in particular, are those, which have a primary
affect.

In response to natural hazards and the mitigation of the affects of bushfire on infrastructure the
State Government developed a State Planning Policy (SPP1/03) titled Mitigating the Adverse
Impacts of Flood, Bushfire and Landslide in November 2003. This document was then adopted
in various forms by Local Government in their IPA (1997) Planning Schemes.

The SPP1/03 provides guidelines and a methodology for the assessment of homogeneous
areas based on vegetation, slope, and aspect to determine the level of bushfire hazard within
an area as well as solutions to mitigate the risk to infrastructure from a bushfire event.

Vegetation provides the fuel, slope provides a determinate on the rate of spread of a bushfire,
and aspect contributes to the degree of dryness or moisture, which may influence the intensity
and rate of spread of a bushfire.

The information provided below has been derived from the SPP1/03 guideline on bushfire
hazard.

Because of the site’s location adjacent to Noosa National Park that is managed for conservation
purposes, considerations of the fire management intents of the Queensland Parks and Wildlife
Service must also be made.




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