Broader Landscape Area Assessment

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In November 2024 the State Government introduced a new State Planning Policy 3.7 – Bushfire and Planning for Bushfire Guidelines and released updated mapping for areas identified as being bushfire prone. The new mapping introduced two distinct bush fire contexts:

  • Area 1 – selected suburbs located on the Swan Coastal Plain within the Perth, Peel and Greater Bunbury Region Schemes. These are areas where the intensity of development and non-contiguous nature of vegetation reduces the risk of landscape scale bush fire.
  • Area 2 – the remainder of Western Australia.

Sites that are within a Bushfire Prone Area 2 are now required to have a Broader Landscape Area (BLA) assessment completed as part of any Bushfire Management Plan.

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Why is it important

The purpose of a BLA assessment is to determine:

  • Whether the site is exposed to unmanaged, extensive vegetation capable of generating high-intensity, landscape-scale bushfire events.
  • Whether landscape features could allow a long fire run toward the development.
  • Whether public road access is complicated and challenging for emergency service access and evacuation.
  • Whether a site is within close proximity to emergency services, evacuation centres, and civic facilities.

In summary, a BLA assessment will answer the question:

‘Is this site located within a broader bushfire-prone landscape that could generate significant fire behaviour, even if the immediate surroundings are managed and compliant?’