292 Illoura Place Cooroibah - Bushfire Management Plan · MCU20/0022

    ▪   A review of site and local topography;
    ▪   Review of site development plan;
    ▪   A review of DERM Regional Ecosystem Mapping; and
    ▪   An inspection of the site.
The risk assessment comprised an analysis of the site and the surrounding lands (i.e. within
100m) to determine characteristic bushfire risk based on Vegetation Hazard Classifications
for vegetation within 100m of the site.

2.2.1 Site Inspection & Findings
A site inspection was completed on the 12th March 2020 to verify the bushfire hazard mapping
over the site and surrounds. All vegetated areas of the site and within 100m of the proposed
development site were assessed during the site investigations.

A summary of the findings of the site inspection is provided:
    1. Site access is via Illoura Place, a predominantly bitumen public roadway, from the
       north of the site. Site access is via an internal gravel driveway adjacent the eastern
       site boundary.
   2. The subject site currently contains a number of built structures, understood to be
      removed for the purpose of the proposed development.
   3. The site is predominantly flat, with a mild downslope to the north at <1 degree and to
        the west through south at <2 degrees, as associated with mapped waterway corridors.
   4. Regulated Vegetation as maintained by Qld Department of Natural Resources & Mines
      (DNRM), maps a small patch to the southwest of the site as containing Regional
      Ecosystem (RE) 12.3.4 (dominant), described as ‘Melaleuca quinquenervia, Eucalyptus
      robusta woodland on coastal alluvium’. (Refer Figure 4),
        Site assessment confirmed that vegetation adjacent the site to the northwest through
        west to southwest contained site contained melaleuca woodland communities
        associated with mapped watercourses and low land alluvium.
   5. Site vegetation consists of a small patch of melaleuca woodland toward the northern
        extent of the site, associated with a mapped waterway that traverses the site from
        east to west. Other site vegetation consists of predominantly managed grassland, with
        patches of Eucalypt species to toward the southwest of the site, and woodland
        vegetation toward the southern extent.
   6. Adjacent vegetation to the south through southeast and northeast consists of
        disturbed Eucalypt woodland assemblage, fragmented by grazing land and rural
        residential land uses. These vegetation communities are predominantly regrowth,
        with some mature trees present, and with a similar composition to RE 12.5.3,
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