Approved Plans MCU22-0147

5.0      BUSHFIRE IMPACT REDUCTION
5.1      GENERAL
The Local Hazard Map presented in Section 3 places the proposed development within a Potential Impact
Buffer associated with hazardous vegetation subject to a very high potential bushfire intensity. As the
proposed development has been confirmed to be located within a Potential Impact Buffer area, measures
are required to be implemented to mitigate impacts associated with bushfire. The measures nominated
will reduce the risk of bushfire impact to people and property and have been determined with reference
to:
       Noosa Plan 2020 Bushfire Hazard Overlay Code
       Natural Hazards, Risk and Resilience –– Bushfire State Planning Policy – state interest guidance
         material (The Department of Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning, 2019)
       Bushfire Resilient Communities. Technical Reference Guide for the State Planning Policy State
         Interest ‘Natural Hazards, Risk and Resilience - Bushfire’ (Queensland Fire and Emergency
         Services, 2019)


5.2      SETBACKS (ASSET PROTECTION ZONES)
Bushfire can impact infrastructure via several attack mechanisms: direct flame, radiant heat and ember
attack. Asset protection zones provide the most strategically valuable defence against direct flame and
radiant heat, and to a lesser extent embers. Plate 9 depicts the general components of an Asset Protection
Zone.




Plate 9: Asset Protection Zone (Source: NSW RFS, 2006)


The proposed development (short-term accommodation) does not constitute a vulnerable use as listed in
Table 3 of the SPP Guidance Material. Therefore, the application is not specifically required to include a
development footprint plan that is separated from the closest edge to the adjacent bushfire hazard area
by a distance (APZ width) that achieves a radiant heat flux level of 10kW/m2 or less as prescribed in Section
9.4 of the Bushfire Resilient Communities - Technical Reference Guide.

There are no specific setback assessment benchmarks prescribed for Material Change of Use development
applications prescribed in the SPP Guidance Material. However, it is considered that the setback distance
prescribed in Assessment Benchmark 4 of the State Planning Policy – state interest guidance material (SPP

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