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Couple Builds Dream Home From Shipping Containers
In the countryside of the paddocks near Kialla in northern Victoria, Rachel and James Briggs’ shipping container house is a wonder to behold. The owner-builder pair that created this exquisite family home connected seven high [...]
Sustainability in Residential Buildings (An independent, merit assessment pathway C.2.1.1, pg. C4)
To introduce more flexibility for development applicants, we propose to introduce an independent pathway outside BASIX. This would be a merit assessment which would allow the applicant to provide, as part of their development [...]
No referencing of the building design profession
There are no references to the building design profession within the proposed Design and Places SEPP. The concern for the BDAA is that building designers could be excluded from undertaking particular design and documentation work [...]
Environmental Planning & Assessment Regulations 2000 Pg. 266
The Design Guide is referenced in State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008 (Codes SEPP). The Low Rise Housing Diversity Code in Part 3B of the Codes SEPP contains the development standards [...]
Design & building Practitioners Regulations 2021 (Dictionary Pg. 89)
Medium rise building means the following classes of building, but does not include a building that is Type A construction for the purposes of a class 4, 5, 6, 7a, 7b and 8 building— (a) [...]
Design & Places SEPP – (Design Process 3.1.1 Pg. 25)
The proposed Design and Place SEPP will require that developments that are three or more storeys, open space over 1000 square metres, and precincts and significant development, are designed by suitably qualified design professionals, particularly [...]