Code Assessments · MCU21/0015

CODE ASSESSMENTS

Landscaping Code
Landscaping Code
Performance outcomes                          Acceptable Outcomes                                 Response
General Requirements
Amenity                                                                                           Complies
PO1                                           AO1
Landscaped areas—                             Landscaping is designed, planted and maintained
                                              in accordance with PSP2 Landscaping.
        1. enhance the visual amenity
           and natural landscape             Editor’s Note— The quantity of landscaped open
           character of the site,            space, including landscaped buffers, required for
           streetscape and local area;       various land uses is specified in the relevant use
        2. retain natural landscape          code.
           features;
        3. enhance buffer areas around
           property boundaries;
        4. suit the relative size and nature
           of the development and its
           setting;
        5. reduce the visual impact of
           large or bulky structures and
           fencing;
        6. screen incompatible land uses;
        7. conceal service, car parking
           and loading areas; and
        8. provide privacy between any
           dwellings or accommodation
           on and adjoining the site to a
           height and density appropriate
           to the scale of the
           development.

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