New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

BLUE MOUNTAINS LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2005 - REG 117

117 Bush fire protection and evacuation of Accessible Housing

(1) Consent shall not be granted to development for the purpose of accessible housing on bush fire prone land unless the consent authority is satisfied that the development complies with the requirements of Planning for Bush Fire Protection .

(2) The consent authority, in determining whether a development application is required to be referred by subclause (1), must take into consideration the general location of the proposed development, the means of access to and egress from the general location and other relevant matters, including the following--

(a) the size of the existing population within the locality,

(b) age groups within that population and the number of persons within those age groups,

(c) the number of hospitals and other facilities providing care to the residents of the facilities within the locality, and the number of beds within those hospitals and facilities,

(d) the number of schools within the locality and the number of students at those schools,

(e) existing development within the locality that has been carried out for the purpose of accessible housing, retirement villages and the like,

(f) the road network within the locality and the capacity of the road network to cater for traffic to and from existing development if there were a need to evacuate persons from the locality in the event of a bush fire,

(g) the adequacy of access to and from the site of the proposed development for emergency response vehicles,

(h) the nature, extent and adequacy of bush fire emergency procedures that are able to be applied to the proposed development and its site,

(i) any relevant requirements of NSW Fire Brigades notified to the Council and any response made to the consent authority by the NSW Rural Fire Service within 28 days of a copy of the development proposal being forwarded to that Service by the consent authority.