Bushfire Planning

Where considering current approaches to bushfire management and future adaptations, it is good to reflect on past lessons and recommendations. The Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission conducted an extensive investigation into the devastating bushfires that occurred in Victoria,...

The Queensland Government’s bushfire planning strategies have evolved into well structured legislative processes.

We often get queries about providing advice on landscape design to reduce bushfire risk. Managing vegetation to reduce bushfire risk is something that all land owners and managers can do. People that live in bushfire prone areas (which is an area of land that can support a...

In 2020 the Rural Fire Service (RFS) approached Blackash Consulting to help them undertake work to assist the bushfire rebuild in NSW after the 2019/20 state-wide bushfire natural disaster which destroyed over 2400 homes across 34 local government areas. Many communities in NSW...

Blackash has been part of the team working on the large industrial estate on a 154-hectare site known as Oakdale West Estate. A State Significant Development, located within the Western Sydney Employment Area (WSEA), in the Penrith LGA. Blackash has been providing bushfire...

Blackash continues to work with our community of clients to reduce the impact of bushfire through sound Bushfire Management Planning, landuse planning and mitigation/ risk management. While the COVID-19 crisis continues to unfold, we will be faced with a range of natural...

If you are thinking of buying a property in a Bushfire Prone Area, spend a few minutes listening to Blackash Principal Bushfire Resilience, Corey Shackleton talk through some of the issues and considerations. Glen and John chatted with Corey Shackleton, around the concept of...

In September 2020, Lew Short led a series of national workshops in each State and Territory for the Australian Fire Danger Rating System (AFDRS) which is a nationally significant project to design and implement a new Fire Danger Rating (FDR) system for Australia. The AFDRS Board...

Bushfire has been part of the natural environment of the Australian continent for thousands of years. The forest and grassland environments have adapted to accommodate this as have the original inhabitants. The frequency and intensity of bushfires varies throughout the landscape...

As a nation who celebrates “droughts and flooding rains” it is odd that we are so resistant to accepting the persistence of bushfires at the urban interface. Bushfires are a part of Australian environment. Not all bushfires are controllable and for fires that burn on blow up...