Objectives

1. To prevent loss of life and property due to bushfires by providing for development compatible with bushfire hazard.
2. To encourage sound management of bushfire prone areas.

Controls

These provisions should be read in conjunction with the bushfire requirements within Part 2 of this DCP.

1. Generally at DA stage, any required APZs provided:
   1. are to be located wholly within the precinct;
   2. may incorporate roads and flood prone land;
   3. are to be located wholly outside of a CRZ but may be located within the buffer areas to the CRZs;
   4. may be used for open space and recreation subject to appropriate fuel management;
   5. are to be maintained in accordance with the Planning for Bushfire Protection;
   6. may incorporate private residential land, but only within the building setback (no dwellings are to be located within the APZ); and
   7. are not to burden public land; and
   8. are to be bounded by a perimeter fire trail/road that is linked to the public road system at regular intervals in accordance with Planning for Bushfire Protection 2006.
   9. where APZ’s are located within golf course lands (north of the upper canal) and public reserve lands any application must include appropriate management requirements and demonstrate consistency with the vegetation retention requirements with Retention of Existing Vegetation.
2. Vegetation within public and community title parks is to be designed and managed as a ‘fuel reduced area’.
3. Where an allotment fronts and partially incorporates an APZ it must have an appropriate depth to accommodate a dwelling with private open space and the minimum required APZ. The APZ will be identified through a Section 88B instrument.
4. Temporary APZs, identified through a Section 88B instrument, will be required where development is proposed on allotments next to undeveloped land. Once the adjacent stage of development is undertaken, the temporary APZ will no longer be required and must cease.