tag: planning

Better planning and development controls

Better planning and development controls – legally enforced Don’t permit development on flood plains.

Tagged development, permit, planning |

Planning, Controls, and Warnings

Coordinate flood planning at state level. Stricter building controls. Early warning systems.

Tagged Controls, planning, warning |

Retro-fitting

Retro-fitting design and planning practices to work with what we have.

Tagged design, planning, Retro-fitting |

Rain Capturing

- Permeable pavements – Water/rain into table water – Re-organize urban planning

Tagged capturing, Permeable, planning, rain |

Massively Scalable Community Relief – out of the box self-help

Post flood relief worked best in highly organised, connected and skilled communities – as was the case for the highly effective Graceville Community Relief group. Massive post-disaster relief should not rely on ad hoc community responses but instead be able … Continue reading →

Tagged clean up, community response, disaster management, education, Graceville, Infrastructure, organised response, planning, preparation, response management, self help, training, volunteer management, volunteers |

Take land fill off our flood plains

Move all land fill and land reclamation from our flood plains. Land filled by reclamation, dumps, storing of soils, rubble and recycled materials etc, in flood plains, increases future flood levels. It increases flood frequency, speeds up water flow and … Continue reading →

Tagged Brisbane River, clean up, flood levels, flood plain, flow paths, land fills, longterm, Moreton bay, planning, policy, recycling, rubbish, waste, water flow |

Better Wivenhoe Dam Management

On the advice of the Bureau of Meteorology, during a La Nina phase, cap Wivenhoe at 75%. Again on the Bureau’s advice, with an approaching El Nino, increase water storage to 90%. If El Nino comes faster than expected so … Continue reading →

Tagged bom, Bureau of meteorology, bureau of meterology, communication, flood prevention, longterm, planning, water levels, water management, weather, wivenhoe dam |

Remember the Floods

The land has a memory; dormant creek beds are revived as the ground reaches saturation point and stormwater runoff begins its journey to the river. An apartment or office block is not an obstacle for nature. The consequences of building … Continue reading →

Tagged creeks, deposition, education, flood plains, flooding, Infrastructure, integration, memory, natural waterways, Overland flow, parks, planning, remember, resilience, restoration, sediment |

IDEA FOR NEW WATERFRONT RESIDENTIAL BLOCKS

Brisbane River is the major element which has shaped Brisbane city. All the residential blocks, including houses and units with the river view, have always been the most desirable living places in this beautiful city. But the recent flooding in … Continue reading →

Tagged Architecture, density, first floor access, flood, frontage, ground floor, movable jetties, planning, residential, resilience, resilienthomes, river, water front |

council’s overlays

There needs to be more accuracy in Council’s flood overlays and more effective links between DERM & councils. At present, I am bandied back and forth between councils and DERM about who wants to provide the appropriate information. Most of … Continue reading →

Tagged 3d mapping, community knowledge, council, derm, flood mapping, flood overlays, information access, local knowledge, mapping, open information, planning, prediction |