4. Business Activities Code

c)   using shrubs and garden beds to clearly define                                                                and sides of the development. Accordingly, the
     public spaces and pedestrian walkways;                                                                        landscape design outcomes are considered to
d)   providing areas for public art, where appropriate;                                                            comply with PO10.
e)   providing outdoor areas with seating;
f)   using screen planting to conceal service and
     loading areas;
g)   making provision for outdoor dining areas where
     appropriate, that integrate well within the
     streetscape;
h)   providing adequate screening along the perimeters
     of the development;
i)   avoiding the use of formal planting design
     for frontage works; and
j)   providing planting design and species selection
     that can endure an intensively used environment.
Amenity and safety
Hours of Operation
PO11                                                      AO11.1                                                   Complies
Business activities are operated in a manner that         The use or activity does not operate outside the hours
                                                                                                                   The proposed office is does not seek to operate
avoids or minimises evening, early morning or weekend     of 7:00am to 9:00pm, seven days a week, where
noise nuisances to sensitive land uses,                   the site directly adjoins land in the following zones:   outside the hours of 7am to 9pm, seven days a
particularly surrounding residential uses.                a) All residential zones, except for the Tourist         week.
                                                               accommodation zone
                                                          b) Major centre zone – High density residential
                                                               precinct; or
                                                          c) Rural residential zone.

                                                          AO11.2
                                                          Where the site is not specified above in AO11.1
                                                          the use does not operate outside the hours of
                                                          6:00am to 10:00pm, seven days a week, except that a
                                                          business use such as a food and drink outlet, may
                                                          operate until 12:00 midnight on a Friday and Saturday.
Overlooking
PO12                                                      AO12                                                     Complies
Business activities maintain the reasonable privacy and   Where the business activity adjoins an existing or       The proposed mixed-use development is located
amenity of site and adjoining residents and their         approved residential use, the reasonable privacy and     in a Medium density residential zone. The use to
enjoyment of indoor and outdoor living areas is not       amenity of such uses is maintained by:
unreasonably diminished.
                                                                                                                   the north is commercial and the use to south is
                                                          a)   siting and orienting buildings to minimise the      residential. The subject use has been designed
                                                               likelihood of overlooking occurring;                to be sympathetic to existing dwelling house with
                                                                                                                   two units having their first floor balconies directed