Bushfire risk assessment risk management plan 199 Maximillian Road Noosa North Shore Revision 1 - November 2019 · MCU20/0087

                                Ecological Natural Area Management


                                                            Table of Contents
1 Executive Summary.................................................................................................................................... 5
2 Introduction................................................................................................................................................. 7
    2.1 The reasons for the Bushfire Risk Assessment and Management Plan............................................7
    2.2 Commissioning of the Bushfire Risk Assessment and Management Plan........................................7
    2.3 The aim of the Bushfire Risk Assessment and Management Plan....................................................7
    2.4 Legislative considerations................................................................................................................. 7
    2.5 Other regulatory considerations........................................................................................................ 7
3 Site description........................................................................................................................................... 8
    3.1 Location............................................................................................................................................ 8
    3.2 Zoning............................................................................................................................................... 8
    3.3 Area of the lot.................................................................................................................................... 8
    3.4 Building Code of Australia building class.......................................................................................... 8
    3.5 Applicable development codes......................................................................................................... 9
    3.6 Topography....................................................................................................................................... 9
    3.7 Mapped Bushfire Hazard.................................................................................................................. 9
    3.8 Climate.............................................................................................................................................. 9
4 Site vegetation assessment..................................................................................................................... 10
    4.1 Site aerial photography................................................................................................................... 10
    4.2 Mapped Remnant Regional Ecosystems........................................................................................ 11
    4.3 Visually assessed vegetation communities ....................................................................................12
    4.4 Map of the visually assessed vegetation.........................................................................................13
5 Conservation significance of the vegetation.......................................................................................... 14
    5.1 Conservation significance of the Remnant Vegetation from the Queensland Vegetation
    Management Act...................................................................................................................................... 14
    5.2 Conservation significance of the vegetation from the Noosa Plan..................................................14
6 Bushfire risk assessment........................................................................................................................ 15
    6.1 Assessment of the Potential Bushfire Impact using the methodology for state-wide mapping of
    bushfire prone areas................................................................................................................................ 15
    6.2 Derivation of inputs for assessment of the Potential Bushfire Intensity Class.................................16
    6.3 Tabulation of the Potential Bushfire Intensity Class........................................................................18
    6.4 Potential Impact Buffer.................................................................................................................... 18
    6.5 Map of the areas of Potential Bushfire Impact classes and class buffers.......................................19
    6.6 Assessment of bushfire prone area................................................................................................ 19
7 Assessment of the Bushfire Attack Level...............................................................................................20
    7.1 Assessment of the Bushfire Attack Level: Methodology..................................................................20
    7.2 Modelled bushfire attacks............................................................................................................... 20
    7.3 Forest Fire Danger Index................................................................................................................ 20
    7.4 Assessment of fuel loads................................................................................................................ 21
    7.5 Parameters used in the bushfire behaviour modelling....................................................................22
    7.6 Results of bushfire attack modelling...............................................................................................23
    7.7 Bushfire Attack Levels for each building elevation..........................................................................23
8 Bushfire risk management solutions and recommendations...............................................................24
    8.1 Bushfire risk mitigation recommendations: Considerations.............................................................24
    8.2 Recommendations for the Noosa Plan Detached House Code......................................................24
    8.3 Recommendations for Australian Standard AS3959.......................................................................24
    8.4 Recommendations for the Noosa Plan Biodiversity Overlay Code................................................24
    8.5 Recommendations for siting & landscaping....................................................................................25
    8.6 Recommendations for lodgement points of burning debris.............................................................25
    8.7 Recommendations for on-going management of buildings & landscaping......................................26
    8.8 Recommendations for Part E, Natural hazards of Qld State Planning Policy 2017........................26

Bushfire Risk Assessment and Management Plan for a house at 199 Maximillian Road, Noosa North Shore                                          November 2019

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