C2.C Streetscape

Objectives


• To ensure street activation and passive surveillance through active street frontages.
• To provide clear access and direction to entry points.
• To ensure continuous awnings along footpaths to provide shelter where most pedestrian activity occurs.
• To ensure awning design is integrated with the building facade and integrated with adjoining buildings.
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Controls

C2.13 Building facades use materials, colours and architectural elements to reduce bulk and scale and that are complementary to existing built-form and natural setting.

Figure 32: Commercial building envelope

C2.14 Development provides a continuous active street frontage for localities where business premises or retail premises predominately face the street and have direct pedestrian access from the street, which may be identified in Section D Specific Areas. 

C2.15 An active street frontage provides the following:

• Maximum unarticulated wall is 2m in length.
  
• Minimum 50% of ground floor front is windows, which does not include false windows.
  

C2.16 A big box development may achieve an active street frontage by providing a sleeve of smaller buildings that conceal its bulk to the street frontage.

C2.17 Blank walls are minimised by incorporating an opening or change in façade articulation. This could include a combination of a change in materials, setback variation, architectural details or landscaping.

C2.18 Development incorporates CPTED principles by providing passive surveillance to public spaces through building design and orientation.

C2.19 Development provides paving to the public footpath for the entire length of the development street frontage.

C2.20 Provide a recognisable entry from the primary street.

C2.21 Entries on corner sites address both streets by providing a splayed entry on that corner.

C2.22 A separate and secure access point that provides a clear sense of building address is provided for the residential component of mixed-use development.

C2.23 Entry structures, such as access ramps, are located within the site behind the property boundary so as not to obstruct pedestrian footpaths in the public domain.

C2.24 Awnings must be provided over pedestrian pathways.

C2.25 New awnings must maintain the same dimensions, alignment and materials of existing awnings along the street.

Figure 33: Commercial awning dimensions

C2.26 A continuous or stepped solid box awning should be provided for the full extent of the building frontage with awnings no more than 3m in width and setback 750mm from the curb, as shown in Figure 33, above.

C2.27 Under awning height will be between 3.2m and 3.6m.

C2.28 Awnings on sloping sites should be a cantilevered steel box section that steps with the street slope.

C2.29 Awnings are varied when there is a need to highlight the location of a major building entrance.