PLANNING •Under s.4.14 of the EP& A Act all ROADS AND ACCESS • Roads and access must be designed development on land identified MUST BE DESIGNED TO to allow adequate access for as bushfire prone must comply ALLOW ADEQUATE emergency vehicles. with PBP. • Services including water, electricity and •Complying Development may be ACCESS FOR EMERGENCY gas must be in accordance with the undertaken on land rated up Bushfire VEHICLES tables in chapter 5. Attack Level BAL-29. •All development must also comply 4. Strategic Planning 6. Special Fire Protection with the National Construction Code PurposeDevelopments (NCC). PBP 18 varies the construction This chapter outlines the principles that A Special Fire Protection Purpose (SFPP) requirements found in the Acceptable should be applied when developing regional development is one that is occupied by Construction Manual AS 3959 called up strategies and plans, local environment people who are identified as at-risk members in volumes one and two of the Building plans and development control plans. of the community. Examples of SFPP Code of Australia (BCA). developments include schools, hospitals, 5. Residential and Rural nursing homes and tourist accommodation. 3. Bushfire Protection Subdivisions Key points: Measures This chapter provides the requirements, or • APZ’s are larger for these developments This chapter does not contain any BPMs that must be implemented for land with a max 10KW per square metre requirements, it simply provides descriptions subdivisions on BFPL. permitted for areas around the building of the main bushfire protection measures Key points: that emergency services will need to (BPM) contained in PBP 18. They are: • APZ’s must be provided so that all utilise during firefighting and emergency Asset Protection Zones (APZ), building and building footprints in a subdivision will not management. construction design, access arrangements, be rated higher than BAL-29 (29KW per • There are some exceptions such as bed water supply and utilities, emergency square metre). and breakfasts and manufactured home management arrangements • Landscaping must be managed to estates which are permitted max 29KW and landscaping. reduce flame contact and embers. per square metre. P28 BUILDING NEWS ISSUE 1/2019