Attachment 4 - Officer Report Dated 12 September 2023

•   Demonstration of a development footprint capable of achieving 10kW/m².
•   Recommendations for reliable water supply for firefighting purposes provided.




                                 Figure 15 – Bushfire Setback Requirements

Assessment benchmark 3 of the State Planning Policy Guidelines requires that development
mitigates the risk to people and property to an acceptable or tolerable level. Assessment
Benchmark 3 also requires that Vulnerable uses are not established or intensified within the
bushfire prone area unless:
    • There is an overriding need in the public interest for the new or expanded service the
       development provides
    • There are no other suitable alternative locations within the required service catchment, and
    • Site planning can appropriately mitigate risk
The definition of acceptable and tolerable risk as defined in the ‘Bushfire resilient communities
document published as a technical reference document guide for the State planning Policy State
Interest ‘natural hazards, risk and resilience –Bushfire’ are as follows:
•     Managing bushfire risk should be based on achieving an acceptable or tolerable level of risk
      for both existing and new development in bushfire prone areas.
•     An acceptable risk is a level that is sufficiently low to require no new treatments or actions to
      allow communities to live with the risk without further action.
•     A tolerable risk is low enough to allow the exposure to a natural hazard to continue but high
      enough to require new treatments or actions to reduce that risk. Communities can live with
      this level of risk, but as much as is reasonably practical should be done to reduce the risk.
      This may include planning responses for:
            o reducing the likelihood of the risk (avoidance)
            o reducing the consequences of the risk (mitigation and hazard management over
                time).