Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00174:reg:10:p59
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00174
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 10 (pt 59/99)
Character Range: 507113–510104

seek to secure the integrity of the Main Avenues as Approaches to the Parliamentary Zone and ensure that the setting, buildings and purposes of development enhance that function.
Development Control Plans and development must:
       * make provision for national uses, offices for national associations, tourist accommodation and residential development
       * seek high standards of building design and finish. External materials should be predominantly light in tone and require little maintenance. Continuous glass façades should be avoided. Criteria for controlling the use of reflective glass should be incorporated.
Development Control Plans must:
       * incorporate the following where Main Avenues are the final approaches to the Parliamentary Zone:
                + building height controls, to ensure that buildings are at least three storeys in height unless specifically shown otherwise in an agreed Development Control Plan. Plant and equipment must be enclosed and integrated with the form and design of the building.
                + Building setbacks to be 10 metres unless specifically shown otherwise in an agreed Development Control Plan. The area in front of the building line is to be landscaped, and exclusive of parking. Minor encroachment of basement parking into this area may be considered where this would not detract from the quality of the landscape treatment and where the parking is located beneath a driveway or other paved area. Minor encroachment by balconies, awnings and porticos may be considered if the materials and design are such that the visual integrity of the building line is retained.
       * for Main Avenues with predominantly commercial frontages, provide that buildings adjacent to Main Avenues may be up to four storeys, plus plantrooms, in height.
       * For Main Avenues having predominantly landscaped frontages, generally provide for buildings to not exceed the height of the established tree canopy (typically three to four storeys).
       * Consider parking, vehicle access, and the traffic impacts of development. Access from and to the Avenues may be permitted where practicable and where traffic safety will not be affected adversely.
For Northbourne Avenue, development must conform to the Special Requirements set out in Section 4.28 City and Gateway Corridor, of the National Capital Plan. The provisions of section 4.28 apply to both Territory Land and National Land sites.
Notes:
Where maximum heights are already exceeded by existing buildings, extensions or rebuilding up to the height of the existing building is permitted.

4.24 Approach Routes
It is in the interest of the National Capital that development flanking Approach Routes to the city is of a type and quality complementary to the role and status of the city. Special Requirements apply to the following Approach Routes:
       * the Barton and Federal Highways from the ACT borders to their junction with Northbourne Avenue, and extending to include