you want. Take into account the leaf texture of the plants and how they can enhance each other when used together. All planting works can be protected from rabbits and wallabies by providing wire or plastic guards to each plant. Avoid introducing visually dominant exotic vegetation, particularly in prominent locations. Residential Design Guideline 2 Footings/Touching the Ground Character Area Type(S) Design Objective(S) & Design Response(S) Design Suggestion(S) Rural Bush Semi Bush Settlement Bush Garden Design Objective To minimise site disturbance and impact on the landform and vegetation. Design Responses The footings of buildings should minimise the impact of the building on the landscape setting. Buildings should be designed to sit above the ground amongst the tree canopy or to sit within the topography and understorey vegetation. Locate footings beyond the root area of existing trees and remnant bushland. Refer to Guideline 1 : Vegetation Retention and Landscaping. Support buildings over the site using timber or steel post and beam structural systems OR Design buildings using solid wall elements in such a way as to appear to ‘grow’ out of the site. Design the undercrofts of buildings to avoid clutter of structural elements, plumbing
Bush To maintain and enhance the continuous flow of the vegetation and existing landscape. Design Responses Provide no fencing or post and wire fencing only to the frontage and rear and side boundaries Provide sufficient space in front for the retention and/or planting of large trees and to retain the existing landscape. Gateways should be simple steel and wire or timber farm gates. single strand wire or ringlock with timber or steel star picket posts. Gateways should be steel and wire farm gates or simple timber gates. Avoid large, solid feature gateways particularly masonry. Continue the rural/bushland landscape treatment to the edge of the road. Semi Bush Settlement Design Objective To maintain and enhance the continuous flow of the landscape and vegetation and the bush character of the front garden vegetation. Design Responses Provide no fencing or post and wire fencing only to the frontage and rear and side boundaries Use timber and rock for retaining walls Provide sufficient space in front for the retention and/or planting of large trees and to retain the rural landscape. Gateways should be simple steel and wire or timber farm gates. Where fencing is required use single strand wire or ringlock with timber star picket posts. Gateways should be steel and wire farm gates or simple timber gates. Avoid large, solid feature gateways particularly masonry. Continue the bushland landscape treatment to the edge of the road. Bush Garden Design Objective To maintain and enhance the continuous flow of the vegetation of the bush garden landscape. Design Responses Provide no front fencing or side fencing visible from the street. Where there is no footpath extend the bush garden to the edge of the road. Refer to Guideline 3 : Building on Sloping Sites (B) for retaining wall details.
Residential Design Guideline 10 Bushfire/wildfire protection Character Area Type(S) Design Objective(S) & Design Response(S) Design Suggestion(S) Bush Semi Bush (SB2 Only) Settlement Bush Garden (BG3 Only) Design Objective To design buildings which minimise the risk of loss in a bushfire and landscaping which minimises the spread and intensity of bushfires. Design Responses Bushfire/Wildfire Protection To design buildings which minimise the risk of loss in a bushfire and landscaping which minimises the spread and intensity of bushfires. Development within the Wildfire Management Overlay is required to conform to prescribed vegetation management, access and water supply standards or be subject to an approved Fire Risk Management Plan. Develop designs and layouts that increase the necessity for vegetation management. Buildings with a designated Bushfire Prone Area are required to be built in accordance with Australian Standard 3959.Complicated roof lines and other design details where burning embers could lodge. New properties should have a Building design and materials Where landscape and tree retention permits, slab onground construction is preferable to elevated floors with exposed timber frames, as this prevents underfloor spark entry. Low profile building forms are preferred, with simple pitched roofs. Profile the roof with the shape of the terrain. Avoid breaks of slope in the roof line, and roof valleys, where leaves could accumulate and, if ignited, burn rafters or barge boards. Avoid design details which enable sparks to enter the roof space or lodge in crevices. Avoid building materials which catch sparks, such as rough sawn timber, or materials which warp or melt under radiant heat such as aluminium or vinyl cladding. Landscaping and choice of plant material Design the landscape around the house to enable annual fuel reduction and clear up before the fire season.
Only seal roads where they are causing environmental problems of excessive erosion, dust or pollution of watercourses. On sealed roads continue the use of minimal bitumen kerbs to avoid erosion points. tree roots. Use water permeable paving adjacent to significant trees when constructing roads. Bush Garden Design Objective To retain the sealed roadways with roll over kerb or no kerb. Design Response On sealed roads with no kerbs use minimal bitumen kerbs if erosion problems occur. Introduce less formal and asymmetrical arrangements if street reconstruction is required. Garden Court Design Objective To retain the sealed roadways with roll over kerb or upstand kerb. To reduce traffic speed on some collector roads. Design Response Some traffic calming may be appropriate in some locations. Introduce traffic calming devices to collector roads where traffic speed is an issue. Eltham Central Design Objective To retain the sealed roadways with roll over kerb or upstand kerb. To reduce traffic speed on some through roads. Design Responses Some traffic calming may be appropriate in some locations. Some road pavement narrowing may be appropriate. Retain the formal symmetrical arrangement. Retain the symmetrical arrangement of the street if street reconstruction is required. Include additional space for avenue street tree planting with street reconstruction.