5.2025.450.1 - 27 Maple Street LATHLAIN

Planning document  

Council’s Local Planning Policy - Streetscape  

Design element  

Clause 1 – Setback of Buildings Generally  

Relevant design principle(s)  

P1. Buildings set back an appropriate distance to ensure they:  

• contribute to the desired streetscape;  

• provide adequate privacy for open space for dwellings;  

• allow safety clearances for easements for essential service corridors;  

• are consistent with the rhythm and scale of development in the street;  

• promote the creation of new streetscape environments through the use of existing rights-of-ways; and   

• protect residential amenity from disturbance from non-residential development abutting a right-of-way and provide safety of residential development add surveillance of the right-of-way.  

Planning document  

Residential Design Codes (R-Codes) Volume 1  

Design element  

C3.1  

Relevant design principle(s)  

P3.1 Buildings set back from lot boundaries or adjacent buildings on the same lot so as to:  

• reduce impacts of building bulk on adjoining properties;  

• provide adequate sunlight and ventilation to the building and open spaces on the site and adjoining properties; and  

• minimise the extent of overlooking and resultant loss of privacy on adjoining properties. 

Planning document  

Residential Design Codes (R-Codes) Volume 1  

Design element  

Site Works - Clause 5.3.7 C7.1, C7.2 & C7.3  

Relevant design principle(s)  

P7.1 Development that considers and responds to the natural features of the site and requires minimal excavation/fill.  

P7.2 Where excavation/fill is necessary, all finished levels respecting the natural ground level at the lot boundary of the site and as viewed from the street.  

P7.3 Retaining walls that result in land which can be effectively used for the benefit of residents and do not detrimentally affect adjoining properties and are designed, engineered and landscaped having due regard to clause 5.4.1.b 

Planning document  

Residential Design Codes (R-Codes) Volume 1  

Design element  

Visual Privacy – Clause 5.4.1 C1.1 & C1.2  

Relevant design principle(s) 

P1.1 Minimal direct overlooking of active habitable spaces and outdoor living areas of adjacent dwellings achieved through:  

• building layout and location;  

• design of major openings;  

• landscape screening of outdoor active habitable spaces; and/or  

• location of screening devices.  

P1.2 Maximum visual privacy to side and rear boundaries through measures such as:  

• offsetting the location of ground and first floor windows so that viewing is oblique rather than direct;  

• building to the boundary where appropriate;  

• setting back the first floor from the side boundary;  

• providing higher or opaque and fixed windows; and/or  

• screen devices (including landscaping, fencing, obscure glazing, timber screens, external blinds, window hoods and shutters)