2015-07-21 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                   21 JULY 2015


A slope to the frontage and a low kerb level provide significant challenges for the development to
activate the street and deliver a centrally located entrance. The proposal addresses the street
with shop front glazing and a small forecourt for most of the frontage. These design elements
combined with the small garden bed within the site’s frontage to Emerald Street provides a good
public/private transition instead of a retaining wall built to the boundary.
The Code also seeks that street awnings contribute positively to the character and streetscape of
Cooroy. Awnings to achieve this should be provided for the full frontage and be either
cantilevered or supported by posts and setback no less than 1m from the kerb. The proposed
awning is cantilevered, setback 0.5m from the kerb and 1.9m from the eastern boundary frontage
and 2.3m from the western boundary frontage, being 79% the length of the site’s frontage. It is
considered the proposed awning length and width is not consistent with other awnings on the
southern side of Emerald Street and a condition is recommended to provide the awning for the
full frontage and setback 1m from the face of the kerb.
As a whole, the contemporary development will positively contribute to the streetscape without
mimicking the Federation or Art Deco styles.


Wimmers Lane and Easement

Specific Outcomes O4 and O5 of the Cooroy and Lake Macdonald Locality Code promotes the
use of laneways for access to new uses in Cooroy. In particular Specific Outcome O5 is relevant
to this development being accessed from Wimmers Lane and reads:

Specific Outcome O5 - Access for new uses is only taken off a laneway where upgrading works
are carried out to the laneway to enable the laneway to accommodate the anticipated levels of
traffic.

Currently, Council does not have a strategy for the use of or for improvements to Wimmers Lane.
However, Council has established a practice of requiring previous developments to dedicate
1.5m of land to Wimmers Lane road reserve. Figure 3 below shows the location of the previous
land dedications.

Council’s Infrastructure Planning and Design section indicates that a Pedestrian and Access
study of Cooroy, which will include Cooroy’s laneways is likely to be undertaken in 2016/2017.




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