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Bushfire shutters and screens: what AS 3959 demands at each Bushfire Attack Level, what compliance costs, and what is about to change.
Bushfire & BAL
A BAL Certificate must state the development is not BAL-40 or BAL-FZ before a complying development certificate can issue. The rating decides which approval route is available, not just what has to be built.
Bushfire & BAL
The construction rules are behind a $286.63 licence. The step that decides which BAL applies in NSW is not: Appendix 1 of Planning for Bush Fire Protection 2019 replaces Section 2 of AS 3959, and the RFS publishes it free.
Bushfire & BAL
AS 3959 decides what a compliant shutter is. What reading it costs, the free-access commitment in the May Budget, and the date nobody has published yet.