Browse Fact Sheets by development phase: Lot Creation

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Healthy places

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• Fact Sheet
• by Tony Capon
• posted 14 Aug 2008

Our environment affects our health in many ways.  It can promote our health (e.g. by encouraging us to be active or to connect with other people), or it can damage our health (e.g. by exposing us to pollutants or to increased risks of motor vehicle injury). 


 

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• Feasability, Planning, Design, Lot Creation, Completion,
• Place Making and Social Sustainability, Estate Design, Access and Transport,
• Developer,

Public transport infrastructure planning, design, provision

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• Fact Sheet
• by Upali Vandebona
• posted 08 Aug 2008

Public transport plays an important role in our society although Australia is a car dependent society.  Public transport is far more efficient than cars in transporting large numbers of people and a high percentage of commuters in large cities in Australia travel to work by public transport.  Indeed, about 50% of school trips are performed using public transport in cities such as Sydney and Melbourne.
 

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• Feasability, Planning, Design, Construction, Lot Creation,
• Greenfield Development,
• Access and Transport,
• Developer, State Government,

Sense of place and community ownership

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• by Sally Paulin
• posted 11 Jul 2008

This fact sheet examines the issues of sense of place using a case study of various aspects of the Ellenbrook development in Western Australia. This development has won several prestigious awards for its design and community engagement processes and serves as a role model for greenfield development projects in Australia.

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• Greenfield Development,
• Place Making and Social Sustainability, Estate Design,
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Heritage and Culture

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• Fact Sheet
• by Dianne Firth
• posted 08 Jul 2008

This fact sheet provides information on how heritage issues may relate to your development. It addresses; what is heritage?; why heritage is important; how to determine what aspects of heritage are important; what if my site is on a heritage list or register?; and how to manage heritage in your development.

 

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• Feasability, Planning, Design, Construction, Lot Creation, Completion,
• Greenfield Development, Greyfield Development,
• Place Making and Social Sustainability,
• Developer, State Government,

Mobility Management: Design for Active Transport

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• Fact Sheet
• by Kirk Bendall
• posted 24 Jun 2008

This Fact Sheet provides suggestions and is intended to advise how residential development participants can help deliver better environments for walking, cycling and using public transport. Ideally, new developments have viable access and transport options are always a viable choice, so transport impacts are lessened throughout the life of developments.

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• Feasability, Planning, Design, Construction, Lot Creation, Completion,
• Greenfield Development, Brownfield Development,
• Access and Transport,
• Developer, State Government, Local Government,

Energy efficiency - influence of design

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• by Peter Droege
• posted 17 Jun 2008

Energy is money. Energy efficiency is not only a way of conserving energy: it is also fundamental to good and profitable project development and design in a broader sense. It conserves financial resources over time, and can boost profits. A high degree of efficiency translates into a low level of waste: this simple ratio has wide-ranging benefits in environmental and economic terms, supports the interests of developers, planning agencies, buyers and tenants - and brings tangible advantages to the project approval, marketing and sales processes.

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• Feasability, Planning, Design, Construction, Lot Creation, Completion,
• Greenfield Development,
• Estate Design, Energy Management,
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Street and Lot Layout

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• by Peter Cotton
• posted 30 May 2008

Street and lot layouts are important elements of the design of a residential area or neighbourhood.  This fact sheet sets out key considerations and influencing factors to inform designers to help them produce better designs of street and lot layout resulting in a more sustainable urban, environmental, social and economic outcome. 

 

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Solar Access and Lot Orientation

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• by Michael Ambrose
• posted 14 May 2008

Solar access in subdivision design is about manipulating the key variables of aspect, shape and density in combination with site characteristics such as topography and slope to achieve an optimum mix of lot sizes that are appropriately oriented to allow for energy efficient house design. When lots are correctly aligned and proportioned, individual energy efficient housing can be built with comparatively less effort because lots are suitable to site a dwelling with good solar access.

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• Feasability, Planning, Design, Lot Creation,
• Greenfield Development, Greyfield Development, Brownfield Development,
• Estate Design, Energy Management, Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation,
• Medium Density, Low Density,
• Developer, Designer,
• Warm humid / sub–tropical, Hot dry, cold winter / hot arid, Temperate,