Landscape Code

Performance outcomes                                   Acceptable Outcomes
                                                       parks.                                                Plants with thorns, fruit and berries are avoided in
                                                                                                             car parking areas.
                                                       Editor's note— Refer to Figure AP3-5B



Services, utilities and infrastructure
PO12                                                   AO12.1                                                Complies
Vegetation does not pose a risk to the safety or       Vegetation planted within the easement of an          Refer to the species list provided as part of the
reliability of services, utilities or infrastructure   overhead powerline or, where there is no              Landscape Plan (Refer to Appendix C).
including substations, overhead powerlines, power easement, the area of influence of a powerline, has
poles and transformers, street lamps, stormwater       a mature height of no more than 3.5 metres.
catchment pits, and underground services and
utilities.                                             AO12.2                                                Not applicable
                                                       Vegetation planted within an underground
                                                       powerline easement does not have a mature root
                                                       system in excess of 150 millimetres in depth and is
                                                       not located directly over the powerline.


                                                       AO12.3                                                Complies:
                                                       Regardless of the width of the easement,              Refer to the species list provided as part of the
                                                       vegetation adjoining easements must be separated Landscape Plan (Refer to Appendix C).
                                                       from the power pole or other infrastructure by a
                                                       distance at least equal to the maximum mature
                                                       height of the vegetation.


                                                       AO12.4                                                Complies: