ASSET PROTECTION ZONE LANDHOLDER BOOKLET for lot 12 v1

Asset Protection Zone Landholder Booklet v1
Lot 12




2.0 What is my Asset Protection Zone?

Table 1 identifies the Council approved Asset Protection Zone for your lot.
Table 1 - Asset Protection Zone Dimensions
 Lot Number               Asset Protection Zone
                          Direction to            Vegetation Slope (across   Distance required to
                          Hazardous Vegetation    slope or downslope)        achieve <29kW/m² radiant
                          from Building                                      heat exposure (m)
                          Envelope (BLE)

                                   North
           12                      South
                                   East
                                   West                   downslope                     24


The APZ dimensions were designed to satisfy Assessment Benchmark 4 of the State Planning
Policy – State Interest Guidance Material (Natural Hazards, Risks and Resilience – Bushfire)
December 2019, which was the applicable assessment framework at the time the
development application for subdivision was lodged with Noosa Shire Council. Assessment
Benchmark 4 states:
To ensure emergency access and operational space for firefighters the subdivision layout
results in lots that are sited so that they are separated from the closest edge to the adjacent
medium, high or very high potential bushfire intensity area by a distance that achieves a
radiant heat flux level of 29 kilowatt per square metre or less at:
1. The building envelope, if identified at RaL stage, or
2. Where a building envelope is not identified, at all the lot boundaries.
Compliance with Assessment Benchmark 4 can be attained where buildings are sufficiently
separated from the nearby forest hazard so that a radiant heat flux level at any point on the
building envelope (BLE), or the lot boundaries where no building envelope is identified, does
not exceed 29 kW/m².
Determination of the separation required to satisfy to Assessment Benchmark 4 was
undertaken during construction of the Bushfire Hazard Assessment completed by NCES for
the subdivision approval. It is noted the plan of development identifies a building envelope on
the lot hence the separation was determined on this basis.




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