Response to Outstanding Issues - 25-27 Toolar St · MCU21/0083

The applicant has previously responded to the Council’s concerns for small dwellings and amended the
plans to provide 50% of the proposed dwellings as small dwellings with GFA of 94.95m2 each. The
small dwellings that have been provided are still designed to be accessible and meet the liveable
housing standards.


 Performance Outcomes                                      Acceptable Solutions
 Built Form
 Site Cover                                                AO10
 PO10                                                      For a dwelling house, site cover does not exceed 40%
 Site cover of development:                                of the site area.

  a)   does not exceed 40% of the site area; or            Alternative provision to the QDC
  b)   for small dwellings or for development which
       provides a ratio of at least three small
       dwellings to one other dwelling, does not
       exceed 45% of the site area.


The applicant has undertaken an analysis of the space required to facilitate compliance with Liveable
Housing design standards. Attachment A includes an analysis of the floor area for standard dwellings
versus a dwelling designed to meet the requirements of a Gold Standard Liveable Housing dwelling
type, and demonstrates the space needed to ensure that people requiring assistance with mobility can
live comfortably in their home.

It can quite easily be said that the houses could be made smaller by deleting additional bedrooms or
living spaces, however the quality of life for resident’s is the key driver for this development and to
compromise on size is a compromise on resident amenity and comfort and ability to manoeuvre when
they need assistance for mobility.


 Performance Outcomes                                      Acceptable Solutions
 Built Form
 Plot Ratio                                                AO11
 PO11                                                      For a dwelling house, plot ratio of development does
 Plot ratio of development:                                not exceed 0.4:1

  a)   does not exceed 0.4:1; or
  b)   for small dwellings or for development which
       provides a ratio of at least three small
       dwellings to one other dwelling, does not
       exceed 0.5:1.


PO10 of the Medium Density Residential Zone Code allows plot ratio of 0.4:1 or 0.5:1 where the
small dwelling ratio of 3:1 is achieved. With the double covered car spaces provided, the site plot ratio
is currently 0.43:1 which equates to 66.76m2 more floor area across the whole site – being about 3% of
the site or approximately 1 double garage + 1.5 carports.

This is not even the area of one of the smaller units proposed.




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