5.2025.313.1 - No. 86B Dane Street, East Victoria Park

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  

Council’s Local Planning Policy - Streetscape  

Design element  

Clause 2 – Setback of Garages and Carports  

Relevant design principle(s)  

P1. The setting back of carports and garages so as not to detract from the streetscape or appearance of dwellings, or obstruct views of the dwelling from the street and vice versa.  

P2. Garages which do not dominate the visual appearance of the lot having regard to the width of the lot and building frontage, the location of the upper floor relative to the garage, and the general design merit.  

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)