Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00174:front:0:p81
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00174
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 229023–232188

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 ceiling slope.

Development should generally be constructed to the street boundary to define and enclose streets and create continuous street frontage while allowing variations in individual buildings and uses.
Building forms, materials and finishes should be responsive to microclimate issues including solar access and wind. Use of sunscreen devices as articulation elements should be employed to achieve climate responsive façades.
Buildings above 25 metres in height are to be the subject of wind testing, including down draught conditions and turbulence, to ensure the development does not have adverse impacts on building entrances and the public domain.
Provide continuous climate protection to areas where retailing and service based developments form the predominant ground level use at the street.
Buildings should generally be modulated to clearly express the grid of the building. Tactility, silhouette and human scale in relation to built form should be achieved with the design of buildings.
Building design, layout and construction should take account of the impacts of noise on surrounding uses.
New buildings are encouraged to be delivered through design competitions in order to encourage innovation and design excellence.
Public art and art spaces in new development should be encouraged.

Land reclamation and land bridge
Replace the clover leaf intersection of Parkes Way and Commonwealth Avenue with a signalised grade‑separated intersection.
Create a land bridge over a section of Parkes Way for streets to extend to the lake.
Reclaim land from the lake to establish a public waterfront promenade, reflecting the geometry of the 1918 Griffin Plan.
Figure 59: West Basin – Indicative lake reclamation and land bridge

Heritage
Provide public access to local heritage places around West Basin.

Create a public waterfront promenade reflecting the geometry and intent of the 1918 Griffin Plan.
Figure 60: West Basin – Heritage

Landscape/Streetscape
Landscape planting should reinforce the urban structure of West Basin and its integration with the setting of the Central National Area and the Lake Burley Griffin parklands.

A formal treatment should be applied to the main avenues, major streets and the waterfront promenade, and continuous street trees should define the pattern of city streets extending to the lake.

The visual impact of parking on the public domain should be minimized by integrating parking layouts with street tree plantings and pavement design.

A limited palette of high quality pedestrian pavement materials, street furniture and lighting should be used. Pavement and landscape design should have an elegant, simple and bold design emphasising the geometry and formality of the