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

As demonstrated in RFI item 2 above, the front fence needs to be shortened by approximately 1.5m to provide
better manoeuvring of vehicles. As a result, the length of the wall containing the mailboxes would be
approximately 3.46 metres in length out of the whole 25.146 metre frontage.

In long section, the land slopes down with a northerly aspect along this section of fence. Due to the slope of
the land, the 1.8m fence height varies with an average overall height for this section of the fence being
approximately 2 metres. Only the slope of the land causes a very small section to be greater than 1.8 metres
in height as illustrated below in Figure 5.

Further north, the next part of the fence is set back behind vegetation so there is no overbearing sense of
enclosure by the fence. This is further reduced by the need to make the length of the fence 1.5m shorter to
accommodate better vehicle manoeuvring. Further, the fence design is not a plain rendered block fence and
incorporates different materials and textures to create interest. Given the circumstances of the site slope,
the need to adequately screen the car parking area from the street and the shortening of the wall due to
vehicle manoeuvring, it is considered that the variation is minor and the fence should be considered generally
in accordance with Condition 25 of the higher order approval as there are a number of issues at play which
need to be addressed by this section of the wall.




                                                                                     Approximate height if
                                                                                     fence is 1.2 metres - would
                                                                                     not screen vehicles from
                                                                                     street.




                                                                                     Area of fence likely
                                                                                     to be over 1.8 metres



Figure 5: Extract from approved MCU drawings indicating the section of front fence over 2 metres.
Source: 51901.4271.02 approved plan 19009 A.300




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