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Matrix Bushfire

Expert Bushfire Planning & BAL Assessments for NSW Homes & Developments

We specialize in bushfire risk assessments, BAL ratings, and BPAD-certified reports to ensure your project meets NSW bushfire compliance regulations. Whether you're a homeowner building in a bushfire-prone area or an architect, builder, or planner needing expert guidance, we provide clear and actionable bushfire planning advice

Site  Visit and Assessment

Visit the site and gather all of the information needed in order to identify the site specific requirements and prepare the report. You can also book site visits for site meetings to resolve design issues or to conduct an assessment for a compliance statement in accordance with the  DA conditions of consent or the requirements  for Complying development.

BAL Certificates

Bushfire Attack Level Certificates provide a formal assessment of the potential Radiant Heat exposure on the proposed or existing development. They are primarily used as part of the Complying Development process along with a report demonstrating compliance with the requirements of Planning for Bushfire Protection under the Codes SEPP.

Compliance  Statements 

Compliance  Statements  
Compliance statements provide consent authorities with an assessment of compliance of the finished project in accordance with the  DA conditions of consent or the requirements  for Exempt and Complying development and Planning for Bushfire Protection under the Codes SEPP.

Single Dwelling Bushfire Report

A single dwelling Bushfire Assessment Report provides consent authorities with an assessment for the approval of: a single new or existing unapproved dwelling; alteration or additions to an existing dwelling; or, complying development. They can also be used to provide a pre-purchase bushfire assessment and NCC bushfire compliance reports for  insurance repairs under the exempt and complying development pathway.

Dual Occupancy or Secondary Dwelling Bushfire Report

Multi‑dwelling Bushfire Assessment Reports provide consent authorities with an assessment for approval of a new dwelling or dwellings on existing lots which already contain one or more dwellings, including:
 dual occupancy; multi‑dwelling housing; secondary dwellings;
 rural workers dwellings; and,
 boarding houses.

Commercial / Industrial Bushfire Report

A commercial/industrial Bushfire Assessment Report provides consent authorities with an assessment for the approval of non-residential class 5-8 buildings, including development that is not used for residential purposes or may have a dual usage. All development on Bushfire Prone Land must meet the aims and objectives in relation to access, water supply and services, and emergency and evacuation planning.

Special Fire Protection Purpose Developments  Bushfire Report

Bushfire Assessment Report provides consent authorities with an assessment for the approval of developments such as  schools, hospitals, nursing homes, tourist accommodation and camping grounds including primitive camping. These developments contain vulnerable occupants that may be more susceptible to the impacts of bush fire.

Subdivision Bushfire Report

Bushfire Assessment Report provides consent authorities with an assessment for the approval of subdivision of land as the creation of lots for residential or rural residential purposes including boundary adjustments to ensure that appropriate Bushfire Protection Measures are identified and provided within the altered allotments at the design stage of development.

Planning Proposals  Bushfire Strategic Study Report

A Bushfire Strategic Study provides consent authorities with an assessment at the strategic planning scale to ensure that future land uses are in appropriate locations
to minimise the risk to life and property from bushfire attack. Services and infrastructure that facilitate effective suppression of bushfires also need to be
provided for at the earliest stages of planning.