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Establishment
       * Place of Assembly
       * Public utility
       * Residential
       * Road
       * Social/Community Facility
       * Tourist Facility
Ancillary land uses permitted are:
       * Retail
Permitted land uses for 'Land Use C' are:
       * Aquatic Recreation Facility
       * Cultural Facility
       * Diplomatic Mission
       * Place of Assembly
       * National Capital Use
       * Waterfront promenade
Ancillary land uses permitted are:
             Car park
             Hotel
             Park
             Public utility
             Recreation
             Tourist facility (not including a service station)
Permitted land uses for 'Open Space' are:
       * Aquatic Recreation Facility
       * Café, Bar, Restaurant
       * Car Park
       * Cultural Facility
       * Indoor Recreation Facility
       * Park
       * Pathway Corridor
       * Public utility
       * Recreation
       * Road
       * Tourist facility (not including a service station)

4.7.5 Detailed conditions of planning, design and development

General

Urban Structure
Reinforce the Main Avenues framing the National Triangle as important symbolic connections and formal approaches to Parliament House (Commonwealth Avenue) and City Hill (Commonwealth and Edinburgh Avenues).
Extend the city grid of streets and paths from city to West Basin, maintaining the connectivity and accessibility of the urban block pattern.
Extend the city's urban structure to the lake.
Figure 56: West Basin – Indicative urban structure
Figure 57: West Basin – Indicative development
Figure 58: West Basin – Indicative extension of the city to the lake

Building Height and Form
Building height will generally be medium rise up to 25 metres.
Taller building elements may be considered on sites north of Parkes Way having regard to:
     •                     access to sunlight
     •                     visual and environmental amenity
     •                     microclimate.
Building height on the waterfront promenade will be limited to 8 metres (maximum two storeys).
The parapet height of buildings fronting the promenade will be a maximum of 16 metres.
Taller building elements to a maximum of 25 metres, and not exceeding 30 per cent of the site area, may be considered.
Minimum floor‑to‑ceiling heights within buildings are to be as follows:
Location                                                                                           Min. floor height
Ground Floor facing Constitution Avenue and roads where 'Indicative Active Frontages' are located  6.5 metres floor to ceiling (mezzanine level permitted over 30% of ground floor)
Ground Floor (Residential)                                                                         3.3 metres floor‑to‑ceiling
Ground Floor (other uses, including commercial/office use)                                         3.6 metres floor‑to‑ceiling
Residential (general)                                                                              2.7metres floor‑to‑ceiling minimum for all habitable rooms, 2.4 metres is the preferred minimum for all non‑habitable rooms however 2.25 metres is permitted.
                                                                                                   For two‑storey units, 2.4 metres minimum for second storey if 50 percent or more of the apartment has 2.7 metre minimum ceiling heights.
                                                                                                   For two‑storey units with a two‑storey void space, 2.4 metre minimum ceiling heights.
                                                                                                   Attic spaces are permitted, with a 1.5 metre minimum wall height at edge of room with a 30 degree minimum