OPW20-0092 - Applicant's Response to Council's IR · OPW20/0092

acceptable solution in the Detached House Code. With the inclusion of planting forward of this section of
breezeblock wall, and designed to grow to 2+ metres, this section of the wall is also not likely to be dominant
in the landscape as it will be partially, or fully, screened by vegetation.

The total width of the site frontage is 25.146 metres. The front fence is articulated along its length as
demonstrated in Table 1 below:

Table 1: Fence articulation and setback

                                    Approximate                     Approximate
            Frontage                                  Setback                                Construction Style
                                      Length                          Height

 Southern Fence Section             5.5 metres      1.1 metres     1.5 metres          Open Breezeblock style

 Driveway                           6.1 metres      n/a            n/a                 Unfenced

 Northern Mailbox Fence Section     4.7 metres      0 metres       1.8-2.2 metres      Decorative concrete block

 Breezeblock Section                4.7 metres      1.55 metres    2.2-2.5 metres      Open Breezeblock style

 Northern Fence Section             3.3 metres      0.3 metres     2-2.4 metres        Rendered blockwork




The fence location is proposed as per the approved plans of the higher order planning approval as shown on
drawing number 19009 A.100 prepared by Zest Design dated 20/04/2020. Extracts of the approved plan are
shown below in Figures 3 & 4. As demonstrated above the fence is set back between 0.3m and 1.55m for the
majority of its length. This setback averages at 0.98m for the length of the fence. It is considered that the
20mm variation from the required 1m average setback is negligible and the fence is located generally in
accordance with Condition 25 of the higher order approval.

Only the mail box section of the front fence is located on the boundary and this section is proposed to be
1.8m high at the driveway to allow for the slope of the land up behind the fence and provide sufficient height
to mail boxes and screening of car parking beneath the building. The height difference between the front
side and rear side of this fence would result in the mailboxes being too low to the ground on the rear side
where mail is removed by residents. If the fence were to remain at 1.2 metres, strictly in accordance with the
condition, the mailboxes would result in approximately 0.5-0.6m height from finished ground level on the
inside of the fence and would be ergonomically undesirable.

Figure 5 illustrates the potential lack of screening of the carport area if this section of wall is brought down to
1.2m. As a result, a height of 1.8 metres has been proposed to allow sufficient mailbox height on both sides of
the fence as well as provide screening to the car parking area. It should be noted that this was brought up
as a concern by the assessment manager at the time of assessing the higher order approval.




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