Construction environment
City design
purpose
Creating a safe, healthy, practical and enjoyable urban environment helps to create a sense of place and culture.
Strategy
Requires development to respond to its background in terms of character, cultural identity, natural features, surrounding landscape and climate.
Promote accessibility and inclusiveness through improved quality of life and the work environment, ensuring that development contributes to community and cultural life.
Ensure interface protection between the private and public domains and enhance personal safety.
Ensure development supports public area facilities and safe access to walking and cycling environments as well as public transportation.
Ensuring the design and location of public accessible private spaces, including parking lots, front yards and sidewalks, with high standards to create a safe environment for users,
Easy and efficient use.
Ensure that the development provides a landscape that supports the comfort, appeal and security of the public domain.
Ensuring development, including signs, minimizes adverse effects on comfort, natural and built environments, and road safety and efficiency.
Promote good urban design and adjacent traffic corridors.
Policy documents
Consider related:
Victorian Urban Design Guide (Environment, Land, Water and Planning, 2017)
architectural design
purpose
Realize architectural design achievements, make positive contributions to the local environment, and enhance the public domain.
Strategy
Comprehensive site analysis is required as a starting point for the design process.
Ensure that on-site analysis provides the basis for considering the height, scale and quality of new developments.
Ensure that development responds and promotes the strategic and cultural context of its location.
Minimize the negative impact of development on neighboring properties, the public sector and the natural environment.
Ensuring the form, scale and appearance of the development enhances the functionality and comfort of the public domain.
Ensure that buildings and their interfaces to the public domain support personal safety, security and property security.
Ensure development is designed to protect and enhance valuable landmarks, perspectives and landscapes.
Ensure development is safe for pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles.
Ensuring that the development provides a landscaping that matches the site’s environment, enhances the architectural form and creates a safe and attractive space.
Encourage development to preserve existing vegetation.
Policy documents
Consider related:
Victorian Urban Design Guide (Environment, Land, Water and Planning, 2017)
Victorian Apartment Design Guide (Environment, Land, Water and Planning, 2017)
Land design
purpose
Ensure that subdivision designs are implemented in an attractive, secure, accessible, diverse and sustainable community.
Strategy
In the development of new residential areas and the reconstruction of existing areas, the subdivision should be designed in such a way as to create a livable and sustainable community:
Create a compact community with walking distance between events.
Develop activity centres at appropriate locations to provide a variety of uses and services as well as public transport.
Create a community center that includes services that meet your daily needs.
Create urban spaces that are powerful, safe and attractive.
A range of sizes are available for a variety of residential and family types to meet the needs and aspirations of different groups of people.
Create landscape streets and open space networks to meet a variety of needs and connect to regional parks whenever possible.
Protect and enhance native habitats.
Promote urban structures and communities come together to support large event centers that serve high quality public transport.
Allow: Reduce car dependence:
– Convenient and safe public transportation.
– Safe and attractive space and a network of walking and cycling.
– Segment layout to allow easy movement within and between communities.
– Convenient and safe road network.
Disabled people can use it.
Establish urban structures, provide utilities and services, achieve energy efficiency, resource conservation, integrated water resources management, and minimize waste and air pollution.
Policy documents
Consider related:
Victorian Urban Design Guide (Environment, Land, Water and Planning, 2017)
Healthy community
purpose
Achieve community, promote healthy and active life and community well-being.
Strategy
Design communities to promote community interaction, enabling people of all ages and abilities to easily lead a healthy lifestyle and participate in regular sports activities by:
Connected, safe, pleasant and attractive walking and cycling networks can promote and promote walking and cycling as part of everyday life.
The street is directly, safely and conveniently accessible to the destination.
Convenient public spaces for leisure and entertainment.
Public transportation sites in accessible locations.
Facilities and protection that support physical activity in all weather conditions.
Policy documents
Consider related:
Victorian Urban Design Guide (Environment, Land, Water and Planning Department,
2017)
Neighborhood feature
purpose
Identify, support and protect neighborhood character, cultural identity and local sense.
Strategy
Ensure that development responds to cultural identity and promotes existing or preferred neighborhood features.
Ensure that development responds to its context and reinforces the local sense and key features and characteristics of the local environment and place by emphasizing the following:
Local urban structure and subdivision patterns.
Potential natural landscape features and significant vegetation.
Heritage values and architectural forms that reflect community identity.
Rural design
purpose
Ensuring the development of important areas that respect rural identity.
Strategy
Ensure the development of site selection, size and appearance protection and enhance rural characteristics.
Protecting the visual comfort of valuable rural landscapes and characteristic areas along township directions and sensitive tourist routes by ensuring that new developments are co-located.
Site and design development to minimize visual impact on surrounding natural landscapes and landscape features, including ridgelines, hilltops, waterways, lakes and wetlands.