SARA RFI - Ecological Assessment Report

OPERATIONAL PHASE                                                                                                    5-11

5.5     Element O.5: Fire Management
        Policy:            To ensure that risk to life and property is minimised within the constraints of protecting
                           remnant vegetation.



       Strategy            Manage the ongoing fire risk within the RHD and POSCWP area and prevent
                           conditions arising which contribute to the spread of fires.

       Responsibility: Developer, Bodies Corporate, Site Manager, Individuals.

       Management Actions:

       Developer to:

        1.    Provide all Bodies Corporate with the Fire Management Plan and a Bushfire Information Kit to
              be prepared for each lot. The format and content of the Information Kit is to be agreed with
              Council prior to the Operational Works landscaping approval. The Bushfire Information Kit is to
              define the development and management criteria (including fire retardant species, planting
              arrangements, mulching) to be established for the Fuel Control Area within each lot.

       For Developer and Bodies Corporate:                         (the following are to be incorporated into the Community
       Management Statements);

        1.    Fuel loads in the POSCWP are to be managed by hand removal for a period of four years in
              accordance with the Fire Management Plan and Ecological Restoration Plan.

        2.    The Developer and then the Bodies Corporate are to ensure the adjacent areas of POSCWP
              Areas are managed with respect to fuel loads and bushfire hazards and in accordance with the
              Fire Management Plan. This can be achieved by:
              •      engaging a qualified person to rassess the available fuel loads within all POSCWP areas on
                     an annual basis after the fire season (refer Fire Management Plan);
              •      ensure that direct and un-impeded access for fire control is available through the RHD area
                     at all times;
              •      The Fire Management Plan provides direction in terms of on-going fire management;
              •      Management of fuel load within the POSCWP areas is to only be by hand removal.
                     Controlled burns are not proposed for this area; and
              •      Fuel loads are not to exceed 10tonnes/ha.

       Performance Requirement: Fuel loads to be maintained so as not to exceed 10 tonnes per hectare.
       No fires within landscaped and POSCWP areas.

       Monitoring: Fuel loads to be monitored on an annual basis.

       Reporting: To be defined in Community Management Statements. Bodies Corporate to provide status
       report on fuel loads within the POSCWP area to annual general meeting. If fuel loads are at 10 tonnes


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