The 15 Livable Housing Design Elements 7 Internal stairways Performance Statement Where installed, stairways are designed to reduce the likelihood of injury and also enable safety pathway. Silver Level a. Stairways in dwellings must feature: i. a continuous handrail on one side of the stairway where there is a rise of more than 1m. Note…
The 15 Livable Housing Design Elements 1 Dwelling access Performance Statement There is a safe, continuous, step-free pathway from the street entrance and/or parking area to a dwelling entrance that is level. Silver Level a. Provide a safe, continuous step-free pathway from the front boundary of the property to an entry door to the dwelling.…
Championing safer, more comfortable and easier to access homes for everybody, everyday, at all stages of life. Introduction What is Livable Housing Design? A livable home is designed and built to meet the changing needs of occupants across their lifetime. Livable homes include key easy living features that make them easier and safer to use…
Where to from here? We saw an uptick in auction volumes as sellers raced to market in a pre-Easter Super Saturday surge. More homes went to auction than any other week so far this year. But for the rest of April, both buyers and sellers may perhaps be less active as we navigate the Easter…
Investment Climate Conditions remain positive for real estate Conditions for real estate are expected to remain positive over the next year. Although COVID-19 remains present in the community, the economic effects going forward should be mitigated by high vaccination rates and the easing of international travel restrictions. The Ukraine conflict has been a two-edged sword,…
OUTCOME 6 Melbourne is a sustainable and resilient city This generation of Victorians has a responsibility to protect the state’s natural environment for future generations. Victoria’s social, economic and environmental sustainability depends on the protection and conservation of Melbourne and the state’s biodiverse natural assets, or natural capital. Melbourne’s Plan Transition to a low-carbon city…
OUTCOME 5 Melbourne is a city of inclusive, vibrant and healthy neighbourhoods Melbourne has always been a city of neighbourhoods ever since the days of Little Lon and the establishment of the city’s first suburb, Fitzroy. Melbourne’s Plan Create a city of 20-minute neighbourhoods Research undertaken by the Heart Foundation (Victoria) for the Victorian Government…
OUTCOME 4 Melbourne is a distinctive and liveable city with quality design and amenity Melbourne has always been a place defined and designed by its people. Countless generations of Aboriginal people of the Kulin nations laid the foundations of what became Melbourne and Victoria—using, among many other ingenious techniques, fire to turn their corner of…
OUTCOME 3 Melbourne has an integrated transport system that connects people to jobs and services and goods to market Melbourne’s transport system needs the capacity to cope with an additional 10.4 million trips26 a day by 2050—up from the current figure of 12.5 million trips a day. To achieve that, Melbourne needs a huge, well…
OUTCOME 2 Melbourne provides housing choice in locations close to jobs and services Melbourne will need 1.6 million new homes over the next 35 years. Issues that need to be addressed include: housing affordability, the types of housing available to cater for different household needs and lifestyles, and the provision of medium- and higher‑density housing…