Attachment C - Bushfire attack level report

Bushfire Attack Level Report v1                                                    NCES REF: J000756
Lot 17 on RP903874 – 268 Kinmond Creek Rd, Cootharaba




1.0 INTRODUCTION

North Coast Environmental Services have been engaged to provide a Bushfire Attack Level
Report in accordance with Australian Standard 3959 (2018) Construction of buildings in bushfire-
prone areas. The Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) assessment was requested to assess the National
Construction Code construction requirements for a proposed new dwelling within Lot 17 on
RP903874, located at 268 Kinmond Creek Road, Cootharaba (herein referred as ‘the site’).

2.0 LEGISLATIVE TRIGGER

The National Construction Code 2019 (Amendment 1) dated July 2020, Performance
Requirement P2.7.5 Buildings in bushfire prone areas states:
A Class 1 building or a Class 10a building or deck associated with a Class 1 building that is
constructed in a designated bushfire prone area must, to the degree necessary, be designed and
constructed to reduce the risk of ignition from a bushfire, appropriate to the —
(a) potential for ignition caused by burning embers, radiant heat or flame generated by a bushfire;
and
(b) intensity of the bushfire attack on the building.
Under NCC 2019 Amendment 1 July 2020, Section 3.10.5.0 Application states:
(a) Subject to (b), Performance Requirement P2.7.5 is satisfied for:
    •    A Class 1 building; or
    •    A Class 10a building or deck associated with a Class 1 building

located in a designated bushfire prone area if it is constructed in accordance with –

    •    AS3959; or
    •    NASH Standard – Steel Framed Construction in Bushfire Areas.
(b) The requirements of (a) do not apply when, in accordance with AS 3959, the classified
vegetation is Group F rainforest (excluding wet sclerophyll forest types), mangrove communities
and grasslands under 300 mm high.
In accordance with the definition in the NCC, a designated bushfire prone area in Queensland
means:

    •    land which has been designated under a power of legislation as being subject, or likely to
         be subject, to bushfires.

2.1 Noosa Council Bushfire Hazard Overlay Map
The Bushfire Hazard Overlay Map of the Noosa Plan 2020 identifies that the site is affected by a
High Bushfire Hazard Area and Potential Impact Buffer (refer to Plate 1). The proposed new
dwelling is to be located within the High Bushfire Hazard Area.




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