Appendix Q - Planning Scheme Code Responses

                                                                                                                                         LANDSCAPING CODE
                                                                                                                 Performance Criteria and Acceptable Solutions



                                                       PROBABLE SOLUTIONS                                                                     COUNCIL USE
       PERFORMANCE CRITERIA                                                   SOLUTIONS*                    COMMENTS
                                                       (IF CODE ASSESSABLE)                                                                      ONLY
(d) providing outdoor areas with seating
    for staff and visitors;
(e) adopting landscape solutions that
    reduce the visual impact of building
    bulk (see Figure 14-23);
(f) using mounding and screen planting
    to conceal service and loading areas;
(g) making provision for outdoor dining
    areas      where      appropriate, that
    integrate well within the streetscape
    (see Figure 14-24);
(h) providing adequate screening along
    the perimeters of the development;
(i) avoiding the use of formal planting
    design for frontage works; and
(j) providing planting design and species
    selection that can endure an
    intensively used environment.

Figure 14-23 Landscaping solutions
that appear
to lessen the impact of building bulk




Figure 14-24 Outdoor eating areas
integrate well
with the streetscape




1    Solution: ✓ = Acceptable Solution
               A/S = Alternative Solution                                                                                                    Cooroy Care Farm
               N/A = Not applicable to this proposal

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