Appendix D - Bushfire Risk Assessment and Management Plan

                         Ecological Natural Area Management


7.4       Recommendations for siting and landscaping
It is recommended that:the buildings have a bushfire fuel free zone. The fuel free zone to have no
overhanging tree branches that can:
      •    Break off in the high winds associated with bushfire weather and damage property or cause
           injury to residents or fire fighting personnel
      •    Be a lodgement point for wind blown burning debris from the fire front which can then drop
           burning debris onto the buildings
It is further recommended that landscaping around the buildings such as planting low, fire resistant
shrubs or building permanent barriers such as low stone or masonry walls to:
      •    Create barriers which slow down and cool the fire front.
Such methodologies help to protect buildings from possible attack by burning debris, heat radiation
and direct flame contact. See Figure 10 below for an example of the creation of a buffer zone.

7.5       Recommendations for lodgement points for burning debris
The Queensland Fire and Rescue Service recommend that buildings be constructed with a
minimum of lodgement points for burning debris.




Figure 15: Methodologies for minimising the lodgement points for burning debris around the house

(Source: Queensland Government, 2000)




Bushfire Risk Assmnt & Mngt Plan for a “Community housing” development at 55 Carpenters Rd, Cooroy   February 2022

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