Bushfire Planning

Bushfire Consulting Services

Our bushfire consultant services help you understand your requirements and move your project forward with confidence. Whether you’re building, developing or need site-specific advice, we provide clear, reliable expertise to help you navigate the bushfire planning and risk assessment process.

Bushfire Attack Level Assessment

We assess your property to determine its Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) and what that means for your project.

Statement of Compliance

A Statement of Compliance shows your project meets the required bushfire planning and safety standards.

Bushfire advice for new projects

Bushfire Advice for new projects

Practical bushfire advice early on can help keep your project on track from the start.

Bushfire Hazard Assessment

This assessment looks at the bushfire risk affecting your site and what needs to be considered.

Emergency and Evacuation Plans

Clear evacuation plans help your site, business or facility be better prepared in an emergency.

Bushfire Management Plans

Bushfire Management Plans are tailored to your site to support safer development and ongoing risk management.

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Bushfire consultants and management

The need to be vigilant with bushfire planning and mitigation measures is more important than ever in Australia’s harsh environment.

Our Bushfire Consultants provide a range of services to help Councils, builders, land owners, architects, designers, planners and developers ensure they meet their bushfire safety obligations to make your project resilient to bushfire impacts, compliant with legislative requirements and ready for approval.

GeoLINK’s Bushfire Consultants are accredited by the Fire Protection Association (FPA) of Australia and recognised by the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) as a provider of choice for Bushfire Planning and Design (BPAD) services. GeoLINK has BPAD Level 3 and Level 2 bushfire consultants who can provide both deemed-to-satisfy and performance-based solutions.

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GeoLINK’s Bushfire Consultant Services

Our bushfire consultants will:

Undertake a comprehensive inspection of your site and the surrounding bushland to understand and assess the level of bushfire risk.
Provide advice regarding the design of your development and the bushfire protection measures required to comply with Planning for Bushfire Protection 2019.
Outline improvements you can make to existing developments to improve bushfire resilience and provide a better and safer bushfire protection outcome Provide comprehensive reporting to ensure your development application meets legislated requirements so there are no delays to your project.
Consider alternatives to your design to gain approval and improve overall safety.

We’ll determine the appropriate level of construction relative to the potential bushfire risk for your site and recommend relevant bushfire protection measures, such as asset protection zones (APZ), water supply and emergency management procedures. We can also provide options for future development or recommend potential building envelopes.

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What is Bushfire Prone Land (BPL)?

Land that local Councils have identified as being able to support a bushfire or grassfire and is subject to bushfire attack is known as bushfire prone land (BPL).

If you live on BPL or you’re planning to build on or develop BPL, you’ll need to implement bushfire protection measures to minimise the risk of being affected by bushfires.

All building and development on BPL needs to meet a set of standards for Council or the NSW Rural Fire Service to approve your Development Application (DA).

Engaging a bushfire consultant will help you understand the process and give you guidance on what’s needed for approval.

You can find out if your land is bushfire prone through the NSW Rural Fire Service. Or get in touch with your local council to look at the bushfire prone land map. Or better still contact our bushfire consultants.

We also offer ecology, civil engineering, environmental and planning services from our offices in Lennox Head, Coffs Harbour, and Armidale.