S7.4.2 Dwelling Height, Massing and Siting

Objectives

  1. To ensure development is appropriately scaled to suit the dwelling’s context and its scale.
  2. To ensure building heights achieve built form outcomes that reinforce quality urban and building design.
  3. To protect residential amenity.

Controls

  1. All housing forms will be generally 1 and 2 storeys in height.
  2. Third storeys are permitted where the third level is setback 7.5m from a street boundary and occupies an area no greater than 40% of the area of the ground floor footprint. The design must also demonstrate that the required levels of solar access are maintained to the subject and adjoining dwellings.  Any balconies at the third level must be recessed to avoid impacts upon privacy and overlooking to adjoining properties.