79Bush fire protection objectives

79 Bush fire protection objectives

79 Bush fire protection objectives

The bush fire protection objectives are as follows—

(a) To balance conservation of the natural environment with the protection of life and property from bush fire.

(b) To reduce potential bush fire attack by managing vegetation in the vicinity of habitable buildings through the provision of appropriate asset protection zones.

(c) To contain asset protection zones and other bush fire protection measures within the boundaries of the site of the development that they are designed to protect, wherever possible.

(d) To enable the maintenance of bush fire protection measures and ongoing vegetation management for the life of the development by the owner or occupier.

(e) To place restrictions on the erection of buildings requiring special fire protection measures, including buildings whose occupants could be highly vulnerable to bush fires, buildings in which people work or assemble and buildings situated on sites where the proposed intensity of land use provides an unacceptable level of bush fire risk.

(f) To enable infill development that provides effective asset protection and that responds to the pattern of development within existing urban areas that are bush fire prone.

(g) To enable the defence of habitable buildings against bush fire attack by providing adequate water supplies, on-site access and safe access networks for fire fighting purposes.

(h) To protect habitable buildings during the passage of any fire front by appropriate siting, design, choice of materials and construction.