Bushfire Land Use Planning and Building Policy Implementation – Industry Survey (QFES projects 1.1 and 4.1)

Background

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) is undertaking an analysis of the implementation of bushfire hazard, risk and resilience under the State Planning Policy July 2017 (SPP 2017), building construction codes and associated guidance materials including the Bushfire Resilient Communities technical reference guide for the State Planning Policy State Interest ‘Natural Hazards, Risk and Resilience – Bushfire’ dated October 2019.

The purpose of this analysis is to understand the options and opportunities for enhancements to improve implementation processes and outcomes. The analysis is at an early phase, and the output of the work will help to focus recommendations on immediate, medium and long-term options to enhance implementation outcomes, including a items such as:

the declaration of bushfire prone areas for building and/or planning purposes;
the relationship between and integration of planning and building processes and methodologies;
provisions for vulnerable uses and community infrastructure;
consideration of climate change impacts on fire weather for planning processes;
estimating levels of risk; and
thresholds or criteria for tolerable and acceptable risk.

To assist with this analysis QFES is engaging with various stakeholder groups with the assistance of Meridian Urban as project consultants.

This research is being conducted under the auspices of a Working Group on Bushfire Land Use Planning, Mapping and Building established by the State Bushfire Committee. QFES has also established a Building Industry and Research Consultation Panel on Bushfire Hazard to assist consultation and issue identification.

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Purpose

The focus of this Building Industry and Research Survey is to gather insights from industry practitioners about their experience across building matters in bushfire prone areas, and interlinkages with policy and planning.

This survey seeks to canvass opinion across a range of industry practitioners and representatives involved in planning and building processes in bushfire prone areas.

The survey will be open until 14 October 2022. A summary of survey results will be shared with respondents to inform follow-up consultation with individual responders.

Completion of the survey should take about 10-15 minutes to complete.