Changes to bushfire planning regulations
Changes to bushfire planning regulations in May 2014 have reduced the number of bushfire risk assessments required during development.
The changes remove the need for home-builders to do an assessment of bushfire risk when they lodge their DA to build, if the Rural Fire Service has already completed an upfront assessment at the subdivision stage.
The changes to the bushfire planning regulations also allow the Rural Fire Service to update bushfire prone land maps more frequently. If land is no longer bushfire prone, assessments will be eliminated altogether.
The maps below show where the bushfire planning regulations apply.
Greater Sydney
- Blacktown (PDF, 2.2 MB)
- Camden (PDF, 1.7 MB)
- Liverpool (PDF, 1.8 MB)
- Penrith (PDF, 2.5 MB)
- The Hills (PDF, 2.1 MB)
- Wollondilly (PDF, 2.6 MB)
Hunter
- Cessnock (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- Great Lakes (PDF, 1.7 MB)
- Greater Taree (PDF, 721 KB)
- Lake Macquarie (PDF, 2.1 MB)
- Maitland (PDF, 2 MB)
- Muswellbrook (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Newcastle (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- Port Stephens (PDF, 1.4 MB)
- Singleton (PDF, 833 KB)
- Wyong (PDF, 1.7 KB)
New England
- Tamworth (PDF, 1 MB)
Northern
- Ballina (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- Coffs Harbour (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Lismore (PDF, 1.5 MB)
- Clarence Valley (PDF, 1.8 MB)
- Kempsey (PDF, 964 KB)
- Nambucca (PDF, 1 MB)
- Port Macquarie / Hastings (PDF, 1.5 MB)
- Tweed (PDF, 1.5 MB)
Southern
- Albury (PDF, 365 KB)
- Bega Valley (PDF, 435 KB)
- Eurobodalla (PDF, 905 KB)
- Kiama (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Queanbeyan (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- Shellharbour (PDF, 953 KB)
- Shoalhaven (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Wagga Wagga (PDF, 1.8 MB)
- Wingecarribee (PDF, 1.7 MB)
- Wollongong (PDF, 1.5 MB)
Sydney Growth Area
- North West (PDF, 2.1 MB)
- South West (PDF, 2.3 MB)
Western
Page last updated: 01/03/2023