2021-03-09 P&E Agenda - Item 8 - Attachment 1 - Climate Change Response Plan

                                              help development responses to urban heat impacts in                                              (subject to
                                              Noosa.                                                                                           budget)

                                             Continue to update Noosa Plan 2020 planning scheme            Climate change and heat risks     Year 2
                                              to manage the impacts of climate change on buildings           factored into land use planning
                                              and public spaces including heat mitigation
                                                                                                            Number of Council buildings
                                              requirements.
                                                                                                             that achieve a 5 Star or above
                                                                                                             under the Green Building
                                                                                                             Council of Australia rating
                                                                                                             scheme.

                                             Advocate through LGAQ and the State for state policy          Whether action is completed       Year 2
                                              and guidelines that provide a minimum standard for
                                              designing buildings to reduce urban heat risks.

                                             Prepare a Socio-economic impact hazard assessment             Whether action is completed       Year 1
                                              of flooding and inundation including survey of building
                                              stock vulnerability (floor heights, building types and                                           (funded in
                                              materials) to provide a business case for risk mitigation.                                       2020/21
                                                                                                                                               budget)
                                              This will also inform wind vulnerability assessment by
                                              Geoscience Australia.

                                             Prepare localised modelling and concept design of             Whether action is completed       Year 2
                                              inundation hazard reduction measures for
                                              Noosaville/Noosa Heads area (e.g. flood levy,                                                    (subject to
                                              landscape design, stormwater improvements). Linked                                               budget)
                                              to Coastal Hazards Adaptation Plan.



 7.2 Build Council and community             Provide best available hazard information and update          Whether action is completed       Ongoing
 awareness and preparedness for               design guidelines and capital works procedures for


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Noosa Climate Change Response Plan - draft for council endorsement March 2021