Bushfire Hazard Assessment - 41 Picture Point Cres Carroll and Meyer · RAL22/0021

                                                    TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.0                   INTRODUCTION .................................................................................. 1
           1.1        PURPOSE ........................................................................................................................................... 1
           1.2        NOOSA COUNCIL BUSHFIRE HAZARD OVERLAY .................................................................................... 1
           1.3        STATE PLANNING POLICY BUSHFIRE HAZARD OVERLAY ........................................................................ 1

2.0                   SITE DESCRIPTION ............................................................................... 4
           2.1        SURROUNDING LAND USES ................................................................................................................ 4
           2.2        TOPOGRAPHY .................................................................................................................................... 4
           2.3        VEGETATION ...................................................................................................................................... 5

3.0                   BUSHFIRE HAZARD ASSESSMENT .......................................................... 8
           3.1        STATE ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY .................................................................................................. 8
                      3.1.1        General .............................................................................................................................. 8
                      3.1.2        Vegetation Hazard Classes ............................................................................................. 8
                      3.1.3        Maximum Landscape Slope ............................................................................................ 8
                      3.1.4        Forest Fire Danger Index ................................................................................................. 8

4.0                   LOCAL HAZARD MAP ................................................................... 10
           4.1        GENERAL ......................................................................................................................................... 10
           4.2        PATCH AND CORRIDOR FILTERING .................................................................................................... 10
           4.3        CALCULATION OF POTENTIAL BUSHFIRE INTENSITY ........................................................................... 10

5.0                   SETBACKS .................................................................................... 15
           5.1        NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION CODE ..................................................................................................... 15
           5.2        EXPOSURE TO RADIANT HEAT ........................................................................................................... 15

6.0                   CONCLUSION ................................................................................ 17

7.0                   REFERENCES ............................................................................... 18


                                                           LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Noosa Plan bushfire hazard overlay ...................................................................................... 2
Figure 2: State Planning Policy bushfire hazard mapping ..................................................................... 3
Figure 3: Surrounding land uses .......................................................................................................... 4
Figure 4: Topography .......................................................................................................................... 5
Figure 5: Mapped regional ecosystems ................................................................................................ 6
Figure 6: Adjacent closed forest vegetation ......................................................................................... 7

5 April 2022                                     Mr Kim Carroll and Mrs Heidi Meyer                                                                             Page: ii
Job No. 21-046                   Bushfire Hazard Assessment – 41 Picture Point Crescent, Noosa Heads