Town Planning Report · MCU18/0015

Town Planning Report                                                                           January 2018


     (b) Buildings have been sited and designed to maximise positive solar orientation and access to
         prevailing breezes.
     (c) Buildings have been designed to ‘touch the earth lightly’ through sensitive footing design, small
         individual building footprints and lightweight building materials.
     (d) Muted tones and materials will be used to ensure the built form presentation blends with the
         landscape.
     (e) The layout is such that it not only retains significant vegetation but additional planting of endemic
         species to provide privacy between dwellings and increase habitat for fauna will be able to occur;
     (f) An environmental open space / wildlife corridor is provided along the creek line, which includes a
         vegetation protection covenant 10 metres from the centreline of the creek. This corridor has a
         width of 20m widening up to 50m in some places.


    The development is sensitive to the existing environmental values of the site, wherein areas of built
    form are both consolidated and located such that generous widths of wildlife corridors are afforded
    across the site. This represents a significant contribution towards, and acknowledgement of the
    environmental contribution the proposed development makes towards the broader community.


Development Details

18. The original approval over the site was originally approved in 2006. Since that time, the site has been
    purchased by the applicant and subsequently the real estate market has experienced some volatility
    that has resulted in the development concept not having yet been delivered. This is certainly not from
    a lack of investigation into market acceptance of the end product by the applicant, nor the extensive
    investment in consultant costs to ensure that the approval / s over the site remain current.


19. As a consequence of investigations around both the original approval and alternate concepts for the
    development of the site, it has become evident that a less dense and more sympathetic development is
    the preferred outcome for the land. This concept forms the subject of this development application and
    is reflected on the Proposal Plans at Attachment 3. Each operational aspect of the development has
    been considered below.


20. Lot Layout – Lot sizes vary based on their intended ‘end use’. Proposed Lots 2 to 4, which are proposed
    to be developed for Detached Houses range in size from 1,200sqm to 1,589sqm. Proposed Lot 1, which
    is anticipated as being developed for residential units, is in the order of 7,507sqm. The balance of the
    site (6,510sqm) is intended to be dedicated for open space purposes, which represents approximately
    36% of the total site area. Proposed Lots 1 to 4 all have generous frontage to, and outlooks of, the
    balance open space land.




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