Attachment 7 - Bushfire Report · MCU18/0015

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.

(5) Development directly, indirectly and           The development does reduces the nature of the existing hazard,
    cumulatively avoids an increase in the         and site layout and landscaping on the site is designed to moderate
    severity of the natural hazard and the         the exposure of buildings. The potential for damage to other
                                                   properties is not increased as a consequence of the proposed
    potential for damage on the site or to
                                                   development.
    other properties, and


(6) Risks to public safety and the                 Hazardous materials are not stored in quantities or locations on the
    environment from the location of               site which would pose a risk to the public or the environment.
    hazardous materials and the release of
    these materials is avoided, and

(7) The natural processes and the                  The development maintains the natural processes and protective
    protective function of landforms and           function of vegetation that previously existed for the site.
    the vegetation that can mitigate risks
    associated with the natural hazard are
    maintained or enhanced.




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