2020-10-21 Final Order - Approval Conditions and Approved Plans - P&E Appeal No 61 of 2018 - RAL17-0504

The Noosa LDMP identifies the Noosa Local Group which coordinates disaster operations in the area. The
following key membership roles and responsibilities for management of evacuation operations and centre
management during activation for response and recovery are identified in the LDMP:
◼     Australian Red Cross acting as the Emergency Services Coordinator
◼     Community Support Officer as the Environmental Health Coordinator
And the following emergency support functions:
◼     Queensland Police Service coordinating the evacuation operations
◼     Department of Housing and Public Works for advice on buildings for use as evacuation centres

The Noosa Recovery Subplan is a subplan to the Noosa Local Disaster Management Plan which lists potential
evacuation centre locations.

Both documents are is available at Noosa Councils website (https://www.noosa.qld.gov.au/disaster-
management-plan).

3.4           Responsibilities
◼     The developer is to enter into a maintenance contract with a suitable contractor to maintain the Flood
      Height Gauge and Siren to Bureau of Meteorology specifications. The Body Corporate Manager or
      delegated nominated person will be responsible for continuing the maintenance contract for the life of the
      development.
◼     The Body Corporate Manager or delegated nominated person and residents will be responsible for the
      overall communication, implementation and periodic update of the Flood Emergency Management Plan:
      Regular review (e.g. every two years) should be undertaken as new flood information may become
      available. These reviews should be regarded as an essential part of the risk awareness-raising process.
◼     The Body Corporate Manager or delegated nominated person is to ensure that the driveways on common
      property are well maintained.
◼     The Body Corporate Manager is responsible (for the life of the development) for ensuring that there is an
      active procedure for notifying residents and occupiers, of the potential for a flood in accordance with the
      Flood Emergency Management Plan. It is envisaged that this will most likely take the form a contract for
      active monitoring through a third party provider.
◼     Residents are responsible for ensuring they have enough food, water and medical supplies to shelter in
      place for a minimum of three days.

3.5           Conditions of Development
The following design features will be incorporated into the development to minimise risks from flooding:

3.5.1         Community Management Statement
To ensure the primary strategy of Shelter in Place can be employed during flood events, a Community
Management Statement associated with the maintenance of the common property for the development will
contain a provision advising owners and occupiers that the site at 135 Lake Weyba Drive is subject to flooding
and that the primary arrangement is to shelter-in-place.

The secondary strategy (or primary strategy for residents as detailed in section 3.6.2) is to Self-Evacuate via
the emergency evacuation route to Eenie Creek Road available to them in accordance with this Flood
Emergency Management Plan.




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