5.2024.157.1 - 16 Colombo Street, Victoria Park (Closed)

Planning document 

Council’s Local Planning Policy - Streetscape 

Design element 

Clause 1 – Setback of Buildings Generally 

Relevant design principle(s) 

P1. Buildings set back an appropriate distance to ensure they: 

·         contribute to the desired streetscape; 

·         provide adequate privacy for open space for dwellings; 

·         allow safety clearances for easements for essential service corridors; 

·         are consistent with the rhythm and scale of development in the street; 

·         promote the creation of new streetscape environments through the use of existing rights-of-ways; and  

·         protect residential amenity from disturbance from non-residential development abutting a right-of-way and provide safety of residential development add surveillance of the right-of-way. 

Planning document 

Residential Design Codes (R-Codes) Volume 1 

Design element 

 C3.2

Relevant design principle(s) 

P3.2 Buildings built up to boundaries (other than the street boundary) where this:

•         makes more effective use of space for enhanced privacy for the occupant/s or outdoor living areas;

•         does not compromise the design principle contained in clause

•         does not have any adverse impact on the amenity of the adjoining property;

•         ensures sunlight to major openings to habitable rooms and outdoor living areas for adjoining properties is not restricted; and

•         positively contributes to the prevailing or future development context and streetscape as outlined in the local planning framework.