Appendix B - Bushfire Management Plan

      iv.    On site and off site fire
             hazard implications of the
             development
     v.      Bushfire history
     vi.     Conservation values of the
             site; and
     vii.    Ongoing maintenance.
 8.8 (O12) Road network provides for safe             The proposed driveway provides adequate access and egress
 and effective evacuation of users of                 to the main road; and
 premises and access by Emergency                     S12.2 Roads have a gradient below 12.5%.
 services.


 8.9 (O13) Lot design and building siting             There is no available alternative location for the dwelling, and
 minimises bushfire hazard to people and              fire mitigation measures specified under this Plan serve to
 property having regard to slope, aspect,             reduce the risk of people and property to acceptable levels.
 existing vegetation and adequate
 separation from hazardous vegetation.


9.0         Assessment of proposal against State Planning Policy 2017

State Planning Policy – Natural hazards risk and resilience (SPP, December 2013, current version July 2017) replaces
State Planning Policy 1/03 Mitigating the Adverse Impacts of Flood, Bushfire and Landslide. The SPP Assessment
Benchmarks – Natural hazards risk and resilience provides a methodology for determining Bushfire Hazard based on
Potential Fireline Intensity. The methodology and hazard mapping has been included in Section 3.1 of this Plan in
establishing the adjacent area as potentially hazardous and as a bushfire prone area.

Part E of the SPP provides development assessment benchmarks to ensure that State interests are appropriately
considered in relation to natural hazards, including bushfire hazard areas. These provisions serve as general guidelines to
either avoid or otherwise adequately mitigate bushfire risk. Specific guidelines for bushfire hazard overlay codes are yet
to be provided, and this detail is addressed by this Plan in terms of meeting the current requirements of Local
Government in Section 9 below.

 Interim Development Assessment                       Solutions Provided
 Requirements – SPP Part E

 (3) Development avoids natural hazard               This Plan establishes the nature and potential severity of the
     areas or where it is not possible to            adjacent hazard and provides a combination of bushfire protection
     avoid the natural hazard area,                  measures to mitigate risk including park management, building
                                                     construction, asset protection zones, access, water supplies and
     development mitigates the risks to
                                                     utilities, and emergency management arrangements.
     people and property to an acceptable
     or tolerable level, and


 (4) Development supports, and does not              The combined effect of the bushfire protection measures specified
     unduly burden, disaster management              by this Plan serves to reduce risk to a low level and ensure resilience
     response or recovery capacity and               and preparedness for unplanned fire so that the response or
                                                     recovery capacity and capability of emergency services is not unduly
     capabilities, and
                                                     burdened or impeded. This Plan serves to protect life and property
                                                     from bushfire without depending on emergency services for
                                                     protection.



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