Att3 - Bushfire Report

Bushfire Hazard Assessment & Management Plan v1                                              NCES REF: J001061
Lot 7 on RP216403, Lot 394 on M371117, and Lot 650 on M37380 – 48-59 Kabi Road, Cootharaba




7.2 State Planning Policy – Natural Hazards, Risk and Resilience
The Department of State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning’s State Planning
Policy – State interest guidance material – Natural hazards, risk and resilience – Bushfire (December
2019) contains the development assessment benchmarks for natural hazards, risk and resilience -
bushfire. The SPP assessment benchmarks prevail over those prescribed in the Noosa Plan Natural
Hazards Overlay Code where they involve the same design elements. An assessment of the
proposed development’s compliance with each of the assessment benchmarks has been provided
below.
Assessment Benchmark 3
For development in a bushfire prone area involving vulnerable uses
1. Vulnerable uses are not established or intensified within the bushfire prone area unless:
a. there is an overriding need in the public interest for the new or expanded service the development
provides
b. there are no other suitable alternative location within the required service catchment, and
c. site planning can appropriately mitigate the risk (for example, siting ovals for an educational
establishment between the hazardous vegetation and structure.
The proposed development footprint boundary satisfies the vulnerable use <10kW/m² RHF exposure
threshold set under the SPP hence is deemed to be positioned in an acceptable location within the
site.
Assessment Benchmark 4
Assessable Development
Development contributes to an effective and efficient emergency response and recovery capabilities.
In the first instance, this can be achieved by new or expanded community infrastructure that is
providing essential services (emergency services, hospital and educational establishment) not being
in a bushfire prone area, as addressed in assessment benchmark 3.
To ensure emergency services can respond effectively, development is located within a reticulated
water supply area or includes a dedicated static water supply that is available solely for fire-fighting
purposes and can be accessed by fire-fighting vehicles.
Reticulated water supply is not available to the site hence the following dedicated static water supply
is recommended:
    •    10,000L per new building proposed within the confirmed bushfire prone area.
The specified volumes should be reserved for fire fighting purposes only (Refer Section 5.3 for an
example of a reserve water supply design for fire fighting purposes).
In this instance the proposed buildings (recreation & central hall and three villages) are located
outside of a confirmed bushfire prone area hence emergency static water supply is not required by
the SPP.
Assessment Benchmark 5
Assessable material change of use
Site layout places the landscape and open spaces within the site between premises and adjacent
mapped medium, high or very high potential bushfire intensity areas. This landscaping and open
space comprises protective landscape treatments that:
1. Comprise only low threat vegetation, including grassland managed in a minimal fuel condition16,
maintained lawns, golf courses and cultivated gardens; or
2. Are designed to ensure a potential available fuel load is maintained at less than 8 tonnes/hectare
in aggregate and with a fuel structure that remains discontinuous.
Note – The landscape or open space may be located within the mapped medium, high and very high
intensity areas to create a separation between the development and the balance of the bushfire



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