Environmental Amenity

1 - Environmental Amenity

Environmental Amenity

Private and Communal Open Space

Objectives
  1. O.1To ensure that private open space is designed to provide residents with quality usable private outdoor living areas for recreational and outdoor activities.
  2. O.2To ensure that private open space is designed for privacy, solar access, and is well integrated with living areas.
  3. O.3To provide low maintenance communal open space areas for residents that facilitate opportunities for recreational and social activities, passive amenity, landscaping and deep soil planting.
Design Principles
  1. P.1Private open space is to be:
    • provided for all dwellings, (with the exception of granny flats, which are able to share the private open space of the principal dwelling);
    • directly accessible from the living area of the dwelling and capable of serving as an extension of the dwelling for relaxation, entertainment and recreation;
    • designed to ensure privacy of the occupants of adjacent buildings and within the proposed development;
    • located so as to maximise solar access; and
    • designed to focus on the quality of the space in terms of its outlook, orientation, relationship to the dwelling, size and shape and its enclosure and landscape treatment.
  2. P.2Communal open space:
    • is to be located where it is highly visible and directly accessible to the maximum number of dwellings;
    • is to be designed with an integral role in the site, with uses such as circulation, BBQ or play areas or passive amenity;
    • is to be integrated with the deep soil zone to provide a landscaped setting with opportunities for large and medium size tree planting; and
    • should be located adjacent to surrounding public open spaces such as reserves and public through site links where appropriate.
Design Standards

Note: Private open space within the street setback is not included in the minimum private open space area calculation.

Dwelling Houses and Dual Occupancies
  1. S.1A minimum of 100m2 of private open space is to be provided at ground level, with minimum dimensions of 6m.
Dwelling houses on small lots ( <550m2 )
  1. S.1A minimum of 80m2 of private open space is to be provided at ground level, with minimum dimensions of 4m
Granny Flats
  1. S.1A granny flat is not to reduce the minimum area required for private open space for the principal dwelling
Terrace Housing
  1. S.1A minimum of 40m2 contiguous area of private open space is to be provided at ground level, with minimum dimensions of 4m
  2. S.2Balconies are to have minimum dimensions of 2.0m
Multi-unit Housing
  1. S.1A minimum of 40m2 contiguous area of private open space is to be provided at ground level, with minimum dimensions of 4m, except for internal courtyards where the minimum dimensions are 3 metres. Internal courtyards will count towards a maximum of 50% of the private open space for a dwelling.
  2. S.2Balconies are to have minimum dimensions of 2.0m
  3. S.3Communal open space is to be landscaped to provide privacy screening between buildings within and around the site and between private and communal areas on site.

Note: Refer to Section 4.1.10 - Landscaping for the requirements for communal landscaped open space for multi-unit housing.

Residential Flat Buildings, High Density Housing and residential component of Mixed Use Developments
  1. S.1A minimum of 10m2 of private open space per dwelling is to be provided with minimum dimensions of 2.0m
  2. S.2A minimum of 10m2 of communal open space per dwelling is to be provided
Development in the Employment (4) Zone
  1. S.1An area of communal open space is to be provided for staff recreation, appropriate to the needs of the particular premises and integrated with adjacent open space or natural areas.