5.2025.440.1 - No. 177 Swansea Street East, EAST VICTORIA PARK

Posted: 02/06/2026 Closing Date: 16/06/2026 11:55 PM

The Town has received a development application for four grouped dwellings at the above-mentioned property. The application seeks to demolish the existing single house and construct four (4) grouped dwellings at the subject site.

 

In accordance with Local Planning Policy 37 – Community Consultation on Planning Proposals, you are invited to comment on the following:

 

  • Primary Street Setback – Council’s Local Planning Policy – Streetscape requires a minimum street setback of 3.0 metres from Swansea Street, with an average setback of not less than 6.0 metres. The application proposes a setback to Swansea Street of 3 metres minimum and 5.6 metres average.

 

  • Visual Privacy – The Residential Design Codes prescribes minimum setback distances for unscreened primary garden areas in order to achieve a reasonable level of privacy. The application proposes variations as follows:

 

Unit 1

  • Roof terrace of unit 1 to the north-western boundary - 7.5 metres required; 3 metres proposed (noting that the screening device isn’t sufficiently visually obscure for the lower 1 metre portion, whilst the 0.7 metre high portion of screening device above 1 metre is sufficiently screened);

 

  • Upper floor balcony of unit 1 to the south-eastern boundary - 7.5 metres required; 5.1 metres proposed (noting that the screening device isn’t sufficiently visually obscure for the lower 1 metre portion, whilst the 0.7 metre high portion of screening device above 1 metre is sufficiently screened);

 

Unit 2

  • Upper floor balcony of unit 2 to the north-western boundary - 7.5 metres required; 3.3 metres proposed (noting that the screening device isn’t sufficiently visually obscure for the lower 1 metre portion, whilst the 0.7 metre high portion of screening device above 1 metre is sufficiently screened);

 

Unit 3

  • Upper floor balcony of unit 3 to the north-western boundary - 7.5 metres required; 3.3 metres proposed (noting that the screening device isn’t sufficiently visually obscure for the lower 1 metre portion, whilst the 0.7 metre high portion of screening device above 1 metre is sufficiently screened); and,

 

  • Primary garden area of unit 3 to the north-western boundary – 7.5 metres required; nil metres proposed.

 

Please note that the above mentioned matters will be considered based on the merits of the case, and with regard to the relevant design principles and any comments received from nearby affected landowner(s) and occupier(s). The relevant design principles that the proposal will be assessment against is as follows: 

Clause 1 – Setback of Buildings Generally 

 

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. 

3.10 Visual privacy   

Planning document 

Residential Design Codes (R-Codes) Volume 1 

Design element 

3.10 Visual privacy  

Relevant design principle(s) 

P3.10.1 Direct overlooking of major openings and active habitable spaces of adjacent dwellings and adjoining properties minimised through:  

i. building siting, layout and design; 

ii. design and location of major openings;  

iii. landscape screening of outdoor active habitable spaces; and/or  

iv. design and location of screening devices.  

 

P3.10.2 Adequate visual privacy achieved through appropriate interfaces between dwellings and adjoining properties including measures such as:  

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

 ii. building boundary walls where appropriate;  

iii. setting back the upper storeys from the lot boundary;  

iv. providing higher or lower windows, or windows with obscure glazing; and/or  

v. screening (including landscaping, fencing, timber screens, external blinds, window hoods and shutters).  

 

P3.10.3 Visual privacy strategies maintain amenity of habitable rooms and active habitable space with regard to solar access, natural ventilation and external outlook both within the development and for adjoining properties. 

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Kelly Vilkson

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Job Title: Senior Planning Officer

Phone: 0893118111

Email: admin@vicpark.wa.gov.au

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