5.2025.423.1 - 11A Wyndham Street ST JAMES (Closed)

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  

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