Owners building on bushfire prone blocks
Free bushfire attack level (BAL) pre-check for your block: vegetation, slope and distance, the six BAL ratings and who can sign the assessment.
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How it works
What you get
The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Bushfire emergency management and evacuation plan door.
Modeled on: AS 3959 Construction of buildings in bushfire-prone areas, simplified procedure (Method 1)
From public data
bushfire attack levels, from BAL-LOW to BAL-FZ (flame zone), set how a home in a bushfire prone area must be built
Source: Planning Victoria, building in bushfire prone areas
A bushfire emergency management and evacuation plan for a farm stay, childcare centre, school or venue on bush fire prone land. Free to read.
Questions
There are six: BAL-LOW, BAL-12.5, BAL-19, BAL-29, BAL-40 and BAL-FZ (flame zone). They come from AS 3959 and set the construction requirements for the home.
Yes. Councils such as Mount Alexander say the BAL assessment can be carried out by a building surveyor, owner, architect, building designer or builder.
In a Victorian bushfire prone area, a new home must be built to at least BAL-12.5.
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Where is the business that needs the plan?
Where is the new home or alteration?
Where is the property for the DA?
Where is the Brisbane property?
Where is the tree?
Where is the property needing consent?
Answer it and ePlan opens the Bushfire emergency management and evacuation plan door with your answer filled in.