MCU21/0110 - Application For Material Change Of Use - Bar, Food, And Drink Outlet, Outdoor Sport And Recreation, Resort Complex At 61 Noosa Springs Drive, Noosa Heads · Attachment 2 - MCU21 0110 - Manager Development Assessment Report

                                Figure 14: Proposed evacuation route

The applicant’s BHA has been reviewed by a consulting bushfire expert and Council’s Senior
Environment Officer. Review of the BHA identifies that a suitable methodology has been utilised
and that the proposed recommendations are supported. A condition requiring the establishment of
an additional safe evacuation point on the golf course, off site, away from buildings and outside
the identified bushfire prone area is recommended.
The review also identified that the Emergency Response Plan does not include any evidence of
involving the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) in the preparation or that they
support the proposed solution. However, it is not common practise for QFES to be involved in the
preparation or review of a BHA or Emergency Response Plan.
Further communication with the consultant who provided the review stated via email ‘I do not think
that no involvement of the QFES in the preparation and endorsement of the emergency response
plan is problematic. The plan includes relevant elements recommended by the New South Wales
Rural Fire Service in Development Planning - A guide to developing a Bushfire Emergency
Management and Evacuation Plan (2014) and I accept the proposed measures within the plan’.
Standard bushfire conditions of approval will require that the bushfire hazard assessment /
mitigation plan as well as evacuation plan for the development must be provided to the nearest fire
authority.
Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands Overlay
The purpose and outcomes of the Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands overlay code is to protect,
rehabilitate and enhance ecologically important areas and improve connectivity. The development
site is mapped under the Noosa Plan 2020 as having environmental values including, ‘Area of
Biodiversity Significance’ located in the north and along the eastern boundary.
The very northern patch of vegetation is mapped as ‘MSES Environmental Values’ and ‘State
Koala Habitat Area (KHA)/Remnant Vegetation. States Regulated Vegetation Management Map
identified remnant regional ecosystem RE12.2.5 located in the small patch on the north section
(Corymbia intermedia +/- Lophostemon confertus +/- Banksia spp. +/- Callitris columellaris open
forest on beach ridges usually in southern half of bioregion) and also RE12.2.5 as essential habitat
for three frogs (acid frogs), the glossy black-cockatoo, the koala and a wattle species (Acacia
attenuate).