20190912 Letter to Kim Rawlings, Essential Urgent Bushfire Management Clearing

STOCKWELL

399 Montague Rd
URGENT West End QLD 4101

PO Box 3144

South Brisbane QLD 4101
12 September 2019

T 07 3004 6888
Ms Kim Rawlings F 07 3004 6899
Acting CEO
Noosa Council www.stockwell.com.au
PO Box 141 ABN 50 010 095 360

TEWANTIN QLD 4565

Dear Kim,

Essential Urgent Bushfire Management Clearing
Noosa Civic - Lot 3 on SP246584

| write further to our conversation with Council officers yesterday afternoon, and our subsequent
phone conversation, in the wake of extreme weather conditions and resultant bushfire events.

As you are aware, we have recently settled our purchase of Noosa Civic from QIC. We have
reviewed the previous Bushfire Management Review in June 2018 and subsequent annual
review conducted in May 2019. These reports were undertaken by Les Hawkes for QIC.

The June 2018 Bushfire Management Review, in Section 5, contains recommendations for
management to the north and south boundary to create a fire break. We have reviewed these
recommendations with Les, and in light of the current environment, his advice is to immediately
clear a 20m fire break in both these locations.

In addition, Les has recommended that the clearing for the extension to Hofmann Drive and the
north south private road is undertaken now, to manage the load of the vegetation on the site
(which has not suffered a bushfire event since 2003) and maintain a safe environment for the
existing Noosa Civic and further development to the west.

We note correspondence of July 2019 from QFES provides that landowners are entitled to
construct fire breaks on their property up to 20m in width, and we also recognise the need to
engage with Noosa Council prior to conducting these works. Given the emergency situation, it is
our intention to complete these works urgently, and formalise any operational works approval
retrospectively.