Judgment - Stockwell v Noosa Council - PEC Appeal 1998 of 2024 - 26.06.25 · MCU22/0094

                                                                             BHA Report forLot 4 Noosa Civic, Hoffman Drive, Noosaville




BUSHFIRE HAZARD ASSESSMENT

The State Government Single State Planning Policy (SPP) released in 2017, includes mapping that is an outcome of the new
bushfire hazard mapping methodology, developed by the CSIRO and the Queensland Government. The new Bushfire Prone
Area mapping was found to have an average reliability of 85%. The new methodology provides a major improvement in
bushfire hazard mapping. The new modified approach calculates potential fire line intensity using total fuel loads, landscape
slope and fire weather severity. A default 100-metre buffer was determined from analysis of heat and radiation decay curves
and research that indicates 80% of housing loss and 80% of life loss occurred within 100 metres of bushland.

The subject site is identified on the State Planning Policy Natural Hazards Risk and Resilience mapping and the Noosa Plan
2020 Bushfire Hazard Overlay Map as being within a potential bushfire impact zone, requiring the bushfire hazard impacts be
addressed (Figure 8).




                                                          Figure 8




+ Bushfire assessments
+ Property vegetation assessments
+ Site planning for bushfire
+ Property management for bushfire
+ Bushfire management plans
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