The provision includes requirements that the application must be compliant with Rescode standards of the planning scheme and meet other specified criteria.
Two dwelling on a lot proposals as required by some councils.
The specified criteria are:
Maximum building height
The standard maximum building height requirements of the zone must be met. Within some Council Neighbourhood Residential Zone, the building height must not exceed 9 metres; and must contain no more than 2 storeys at any point.
Within some council the General Residential Zone, the building height must not exceed 11 metres; and must contain no more than 3 storeys at any point.
Minimum garden area
The standard mandatory minimum garden area requirement of the zone must be met.
( Garden area size is dependant on the land area and can be between 25% and 35% of the land area. This can affect the size of your building footprints)
Landscaping
The landscaping requirements within the Neighbourhood and General Residential Zones and relevant planning overlays must be met.
These requirements relate to canopy tree planting.
Site layout and building massing
All numerical standards relating to street setback, site coverage, permeability and width of accessways and car spaces must be met. These requirements ensure that development respects character of the neighbourhood and makes efficient use of the site.
Amenity impacts
All numerical standards relating to side and rear setbacks, walls on boundaries, daylight to existing windows, solar access to existing north-facing habitable room windows, overshadowing of open space and overlooking must be met. These requirements ensure that the impacts of development on adjoining land owners are not unreasonable.
On-site amenity and facilities
All numerical standards relating to internal views, daylight to new windows, private open space, solar access to open space, storage and front fences must be met. These requirements ensure that high quality living environments are created for those who will live in the dwellings.
Car parking
Numerical standards relating to the number of car parking spaces must be met. In addition, requirements have been included to reduce the dominance of crossovers and car parking from the street.
These requirements are consistent with Council’s case study analysis and relevant VCAT decisions and are particularly applicable to side by side dual occupancies. These requirements ensure the retention of street trees, adequate space for front garden landscaping and retention of on street car parking spaces.
Livable (accessible) housing
All new dwellings must achieve Silver Level of performance under the Livable Housing Australia, Livable Housing Design Guidelines.
This requirement is consistent with objectives to increase the supply of housing that is visitable and adaptable to sectors of the community with altered mobility. The specification of Silver standard performance gives greater clarity of accessibility requirements to deliver outcomes that improve upon those currently being delivered by the planning scheme provisions.
Environmental sustainability required for a dual occupancy by some councils
All new dwellings in some councils must achieve a minimum Built Environment Sustainability Scorecard (BESS) score of 50%, including achieving the mandatory minimum score paths for water, energy, storm water and indoor environmental quality. This requirement will ensure that the outcomes will be of high quality and that the requirements of the Environmentally Sustainable Development local policy will be met in every application.
(extracted from Merri-Bek Amendment to Planning Scheme)
The seven core design elements in the LHA Silver Level are:
A safe continuous and step free path of travel from the street entrance and / or parking area to a dwelling entrance that is level.
At least one, level (step-free) entrance into the dwelling.
Internal doors and corridors that facilitate comfortable and unimpeded movement between spaces.
A toilet on the ground (or entry) level that provides easy access.
A bathroom that contains a hobless shower recess.
Reinforced walls around the toilet, shower and bath to support the safe installation of grabrails at a later date.
Stairways are designed to reduce the likelihood of injury and also enable future adaptation.
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