Bushfire Hazard Assessment & Management Plan v2 - 48-59 Kabi Road COOTHARABA

Bushfire Hazard Assessment & Management Plan v2                                              NCES REF: J001061
Lot 7 on RP216403, Lot 394 on M371117, and Lot 650 on M37380 – 48-59 Kabi Road, Cootharaba




the SPP.
Assessment Benchmark 5
Assessable material change of use
Site layout places the landscape and open spaces within the site between premises and adjacent
mapped medium, high or very high potential bushfire intensity areas. This landscaping and open
space comprises protective landscape treatments that:
1. Comprise only low threat vegetation, including grassland managed in a minimal fuel condition16,
maintained lawns, golf courses and cultivated gardens; or
2. Are designed to ensure a potential available fuel load is maintained at less than 8 tonnes/hectare
in aggregate and with a fuel structure that remains discontinuous.
Note – The landscape or open space may be located within the mapped medium, high and very high
intensity areas to create a separation between the development and the balance of the bushfire
prone area.
The proposed development footprint boundary is separated from the hazardous vegetation areas. It
is recommended that any new landscaping associated with the proposed works maximises the use
of low-flammability species and or avoids clustering of flammable species.
Where involving a requirement for revegetation or rehabilitation outside of bushfire prone areas
1. Revegetation or rehabilitation areas contain patches of less than one ha of continuous fuel (i.e.,
surrounded by either no fuel or non-continuous fuel) and are further than 100 metres from the
interface with mapped medium, high or very high potential bushfire intensity patches greater than
two hectares in size. Vegetation corridors in these areas with continuous fuel, should be less than
50 metres in width and isolated patches of continuous fuel, should be less than 0.5 hectare.
No revegetation or rehabilitation areas are currently proposed. It is recommended that any
landscaping undertaken within the site facilitates conditions which satisfy Assessment Benchmark 7
below.
Assessment Benchmark 7
Where a requirement for an asset protection zone (or similar) exists
Landscaping treatments comprise only low threat vegetation, including grassland managed in a
minimal fuel condition, maintained lawns, golf courses, maintained public reserves and parklands,
vineyards, orchards, cultivated gardens, commercial nurseries, nature strips and windbreaks.
OR
Landscaping management maintains a potential available fuel load which is less than eight
tonnes/hectare in aggregate, and fuel structure which is discontinuous.
OR
Development includes a bushfire management plan for the maintenance of any identified asset
protection zone, including landscape design and ongoing vegetation management.
This document includes a Bushfire Management Plan which addresses Landscaping treatments.
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