Approved Plans MCU22-0147

4.2     RISK FROM IDENTIFIED HAZARDOUS VEGETATION
The Local Hazard Map prepared as Figure 3 indicates that hazardous vegetation is located approximately
60-70m to the immediate north, west and south of the cottage. As depicted in Plate 4, there is a
considerable expanse of contiguous offsite vegetation located from the north-west to south-west of the
site. Therefore, as the hazardous vegetation is located upwind of the site under typical seasonal fire winds,
the site is deemed to be exposed to a likely probability of bushfire impact at some time in the future.

The separation distance offered to the adjoining vegetation is the primary driver of the assigned level of
risk and is determined with consideration to the Flamesol modelling output undertaken in Section 3.3 and
presented as Appendix B. The existing cottage has been located within a confirmed Potential Impact
Buffer Area and is currently provided with 60m separation to the fuel reduced vegetation to the north.
The cottage is separated a total of 75m from the VHC 8.1 hazardous vegetation located downslope to the
north and 60m to the VHC 8.1 vegetation to located across slope to the west-south-west. The separation
will be maintained as a dedicated asset protection zone and will provide the cottage with a setback
distance sufficient to achieve approximately 10kW/m2 radiant heat impact and will result in an acceptable
level of bushfire risk to the development. Setbacks are discussed in further detail in Section 5.2 below.




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