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Sydney, when viewed from above, is lined by spectacular harbour foreshore and bushland. These areas are considered Bushfire Prone Areas.
For safety reasons, authorities have a compliance plan for Councils, NSW fire authorities, builders and certifiers to follow.
If you are planning a home renovation, you will have to submit your plan to the authorities.
Therefore, you need to obtain approval to renovate in Bushfire Prone Areas.
One of the biggest drawcards about living in Sydney’s northern suburbs is the natural beauty and living close to the bush. Unfortunately, with the wonderful lifestyle close to the bush comes the danger of living on bushfire prone land.
Managing bushfire risk is both a planning and emergency management challenge. Importantly there are specific construction standards that apply when you want to build a new home or renovate on Bushfire Prone Land.
If your home is in a bushfire prone area, then you should already know to give special consideration to fire safety. Bushfires must be taken seriously as they can take away everything that belongs to you in one fell swoop.
Just recently, a bushfire that blazed in New South Wales, wreaked havoc across the small community of Uarbry. According to The Guardian, 12 out of its 19 homes were destroyed by the fire and it even claimed the historic Tongy Station which was worth around $20 million.
With that in mind, here are a set of strategies before, during and after bushfire.
Experts estimated that around 1 million homes in Sydney suburbs are prone to bushfire, and according to a report by the NWS Rural Fire Service, almost 200,000 homes are located in areas that are highly vulnerable to bushfire attack.
While the prospect of bushfire present is serious matter, most properties in bushfire-prone areas do not have emergency plans and many residents fail to prepare their homes to a level that would increase the survivability of the structures as well as ensure their own safety.Read More
An article on the website abc.net.au talks about a safety campaign launched for Victoria this bushfire season. The campaign titled “Leave and live” recommends Victorians to leave their homes rather than employ a wait-and-see approach. After all, the summer is only expected to get hot and perilous.Read More
It is better to be safe than sorry, especially if you live in bushfire-prone areas. Talking of safe, there is nothing safer than a having a house and, thus, the two components correlate. It is becoming imperative to create and live in houses averse to bushfires. The problem is that the materials and house design needed to ensure the same also make houses more expensive to buy.
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Bushfires give us endless sleepless nights but we manage to afford them believing they are a fact of life. An occupational hazard of sorts for the great occupation called life (pardon me for getting carried away with the literature). Truth be told, for long decades we have been rather incompetent in facing the problem. Now, with a lot more understanding and a few exemplary executions (against Bushfires) to boot home, we have become a confident lot. Within the ambit of this article, let us discuss ways to prepare our properties for the season of Bushfires.
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830 houses were gutted down only between the year 2000 and 2003 due to bushfire. The carnage has not stopped as we have moved into the second decade. Bushfire, to put in very mild terms, is a serious concern. While you cannot convincingly say you are completely insured against a bushfire experience, here is a bushfire primer you can use to get one better on it (with some luck).
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