Site Planning

2 - Site Planning

Site Planning

Public Domain

The public domain comprises the shared urban area and spaces, the structures that relate to those spaces and the infrastructure that supports and serves them. Parramatta's public domain includes the railway corridors, streetscapes, public car parks, parks and reserves, waterways and river systems. The public domain incorporates elements such as fences, bridges, trees, footpaths, street furniture and artworks. Development of private property should have regard and make a positive contribution to the interface with the public domain.

Objectives
  1. O.1To enhance the quality of the public domain.
  2. O.2To ensure the public domain is attractive, safe, interesting, comfortable, readily understood and easily accessed.
  3. O.3To ensure that development adjacent to public domain elements such as rivers, streets, parks, bushland reserves and other public open spaces, complements the landscape character, public use and enjoyment of that land.
Design Principles
  1. P.1Development is to be designed to address elements of the public domain, including the building interface between private and public domains, circulation patterns and accessways, gateways, nodes, edges, landscape features, heritage items, ground floor activity and built form definition to the street.
  2. P.2Public access to the public domain is to be maximised.
  3. P.3Buildings are to be located to provide an outlook to the public domain, without appearing to privatise that space.
  4. P.4Where appropriate, development is to provide a visual transition to the public domain through measures such as avoiding continuous lengths of blank walls and fences at the public domain interface.
  5. P.5Views to and from the public domain are to be protected.
  6. P.6Where appropriate, ground floor areas abutting public space should be occupied by uses that create active building fronts with pedestrian flow, and contribute to the life of the streets and other public spaces.