MCU14/0106 & OPW15/0001 Town Planning Report & Appendix A Code Compliance

                                                                                                                                                                                  Town Planning Report
                                                                                                   28 Eenie Creek Road, Noosaville and parts of the road reserves of Hofmann Drive and Walter Hay Drive



A23 – CPTED Guidelines for Queensland – The Design of Buildings
 Principles                                              Actions                                                                      Response
 2. The Design of Buildings
 2A      Buildings and their sites must be designed     2.1        Design buildings and their sites to maximise informal              R2.1-2.2 Complies with 2.1 and 2.2
         to promote passive surveillance of adjoining              surveillance of the adjoining public realm.                        The proposed expansion incorporates a range of design features
         public realm and community ownership of                                                                                      which promote surveillance. These include the incorporation of retail
         safety outcomes.                               2.2        Ensure activities on the ground floor promote surveillance
                                                                   and design, where possible, for inside/outside activities which    and restaurant space near primary pedestrian entries to the
 2B      Buildings and their sites must be designed                enhance this (for example cafés and restaurants in centres or      expansion, the orientation of pedestrian entries toward car parking
         to enhance neighbourhood legibility,                      actively used garden spaces in housing).                           areas and the inclusion of a long straight mall to increase visibility.
         territoriality and community pride.                                                                                          Refer to Appendix B – Architectural Drawings and Architectural
                                                                                                                                      Design Report.
                                                        2.3        Minimise the extent of “dead” elements (such as carpark            R2.3 Complies with 2.3
                                                                   entries, locked lobby spaces, rubbish enclosures and service       The proposed expansion is located internal to the site and is not
 2C      Buildings and their sites must be designed                lockers) at the ground floor on the main street frontages.
         to be defensible without lessening their                                                                                     visible from the public road network. From the internal road network,
         proper character and function or their                                                                                       pedestrian entrances, tenancies and the Civic Plaza form a primary
         supportive relationship to adjoining public                                                                                  part of the visible element of the façade presented to this road. Car
         realm.                                                                                                                       parking areas are screened by extensive retained vegetation and
                                                                                                                                      landscaping.
                                                                                                                                      Refer to Appendix B – Architectural Drawings and Architectural
                                                                                                                                      Design Report and Appendix C – Landscape Concept.
                                                        2.4        Design and landscape any site at the ground floor between          R2.4 Complies with 2.4
                                                                   building and the street or civic space in ways that do not         The proposed expansion is appropriately designed to ensure that
                                                                   interfere with surveillance (for example, front fences no more     surveillance is maintained while ensure landscaping softens the built
                                                                   than 1.2 metres high or 1.8 metres if at least 50 per cent         form.
                                                                   transparent).
                                                        2.5        Ensure the uses and design of those parts of the building’s        R2.5 Complies with 2.5
                                                                   second to fifth storeys that are adjacent to the public realm of   The proposed expansion incorporates a multi-use area on its second
                                                                   streets and civic places also strongly support surveillance.       level, which promotes a high level of surveillance of adjoining semi-
                                                                                                                                      public areas.
                                                                                                                                      Refer to Appendix B – Architectural Drawings and Architectural
                                                                                                                                      Design Report
                                                        2.6        Avoid substantially blank facades (no more than one third to       R2.6 Complies with 2.6
                                                                   be blank) or uses (such as above ground podium carparking          To semi-public areas such as at grade car parking areas, usable
                                                                   arrangements) which prevent overlooking of the public realm        space, such as entrances and tenancy frontages form a large
                                                                   (if necessary by significantly “sleeving” them with active uses    component of the building façade. Non active elements of the façade
                                                                   on the streetfront to provide the surveillance).                   are screened from view by landscaping. These elements of the
                                                                                                                                      façade are not visible from the internal road network as a result of
                                                                                                                                      retained vegetation and further landscaping.
                                                                                                                                      Refer to Appendix B – Architectural Drawings and Architectural
                                                                                                                                      Design Report and Appendix C – Landscape Concept.




December 2014                                                                            Cardno HRP                                                                                              A138