2015-06-23 I&S Agenda - Item 5 - Local Disaster Recovery Plan - Attachment 2

                           Noosa Local Disaster Recovery Plan 2015/2016

When gathering information for infrastructure recovery assessments, the sub-group should
consider:
   power
   water
   gas
   roads and bridges
   rail
   communication networks (exchanges, etc)
   damage to residential and commercial buildings
   damage to public buildings including schools and hospitals
   damage to recreation and cultural facilities
   dam walls
   hazard footprints, locations
   displaced people
   food supplies and food and merchandise supply chains
   alternative access points
   fences
Complications in damage and impact assessment often occur because:
   owners of properties are not present at the time of inspection
   professional advice may be needed and may not be readily available
   organisations and individuals have differing priorities and agendas which impacts on the
    timeliness and relevance of the impact/damage assessment
   data on damage may not be complete due to inaccessibility
   insufficient resources available to analyse impact data and needs
   data reporting in a variety of incompatible formats

24.11 Reconstruction
Reconstruction is generally more complex that regular building and development activity.
Some of the key issues to be considered by the sub-group include:

24.12 Planning for reconstruction
   Community consultation. Works should be prioritised and staged (i.e. temporary fixes
    with more detailed solutions developed over longer time frames) in consultation with the
    affected community.
   Assessment. There are likely to be differing assessments e.g. insurance versus those
    affected. Limited assessments done early may miss things or under report or over report
    the scale and nature of damage. Damage may be missed by inexperienced or
    overwhelmed assessors.
   Environment. There is a need to reduce exposure to future risk or creation of new risk
    from reconstruction effort
   Regulation and frameworks. Temporary relaxation of planning regimes may allow
    buildings and structures to be built that reinstate pre-disaster vulnerabilities or threats.
    In addition, house repairs might not have to meet new building codes, whereas
    rebuilding is usually to the new standard. Underinsurance and low damage write-offs
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