Bushfire Management Report

                              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...................................................................................................8
   3.6 Topography.................................................................................................................................9
   3.7 Mapped bushfire hazard.............................................................................................................9
   3.8 Climate.......................................................................................................................................9
4 Site vegetation.......................................................................................................................... 10
   4.1 Site aerial photo........................................................................................................................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 vegetation derived from Queensland Vegetation Act...........14
   5.2 Conservation significance of the vegetation derived from the 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.............................................................................................................19
   6.5 Map 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 Parameters used in the bushfire behaviour modelling.............................................................21
   7.4 Results of bushfire attack modelling.........................................................................................22
   7.5 Bushfire Attack Levels for each building elevation...................................................................22
   7.6 Assessment of vegetation clearing...........................................................................................23
8 Bushfire risk management solutions and recommendations...............................................24
   8.1 Bushfire hazard mitigation recommendations: Considerations................................................24
   8.2 Recommendations for the Noosa Plan 2020 Bushfire Overlay Code......................................24
   8.3 Recommendations for the assessed Bushfire Attack Level.....................................................24

Bushfire Risk Assessment and Management Plan for a house at 26 Little Springs Lane, Lake MacDonald                                    February 2021

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