Clarence Fire Management Strategy

This bushfire management strategy is a revision and expansion of Clarence City Council's existing bushfire management strategy. The aim of this revision is to ensure that Clarence City Council's bushfire management practices are based on current best practice for protecting life and property from bushfires, and provide for the long-term sustainability of ecological diversity in reserves managed by Council.

The strategy addresses bushfire management issues that have arisen from the expansion of residential development within bushland areas, community concern at the potential threat of wildfire, wider awareness of the ecological role of fire, and the statutory responsibilities of local governments in bushfire hazard management.

The bushfire management strategy identifies all of Clarence City Council's statutory bushfire management responsibilities, sets overall objectives and a policy framework, and outlines the practices, procedures and actions required to meet them. It also includes general information on bushfire management, details of the bushfire risk assessment process used in the reserve bushfire management plans, including assumptions, methods and data sources, and a glossary of key terms.

Bushfire Management Plans for Reserves

Also see Meehan Range Fire Management Strategy