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Design for Open Space

  • Site Ecology
  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
  • Estate Design
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

New residential estates need an integrated and connected open space network that meets the needs of residents and surrounding habitats and to provide a variety of recreational opportunities whilst addressing local catchment and stormwater management needs.  Within an estate, open space provides opportunities to preserve and enhance natural elements of a site, facilitate social interactions and encourage a healthy lifestyle.

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Water Demand Management

  • Water Management
  • Sustainablity Management
    • Content rating:
    • 2 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

The drive for more efficient use of water through demand management measures has focused on the provision of service.

 

 

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Walkable neighbourhoods

  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
  • Estate Design
  • Access and Transport
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Walkable neighbourhoods have implications for sustainability because developments that are walkable reduce incentives to drive, conserve scarce resources, and lower environmental impacts.

Co-author: Leah Mason

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Employer liaison transport initiatives

  • Estate Design
  • Access and Transport
  • Sustainablity Management
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

This Fact Sheet suggests to residential development participants how they can help deliver better environments for walking, cycling and using public transport by working with end user employers amongst others. Ideally new developments have viable access and transport options, so transport impacts are lessened throughout the life of developments.

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Industry Education

  • Sustainablity Management
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Creating sustainable developments not only means physically constructing efficient buildings and communities, it also means changing the behaviour of the people that live in, and operate the developments. Developing sustainable communities now and into the future means significant behavioural change at the construction and the occupation phases.

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Healthy places

  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
  • Estate Design
  • Access and Transport
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    • 4 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Our environment affects our health in many ways.  It can promote our health (e.g. by encouraging us to be active or to connect with other people), or it can damage our health (e.g. by exposing us to pollutants or to increased risks of motor vehicle injury). 


 

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Safety

  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
  • Estate Design
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

This fact sheet outlines the principles and strategies that promote the creation of safer communities. The concept of Safer Design (also known as Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design – CPTED) forms the basis of this fact sheet.  


 

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Adaptation to Climate Change - Heat and Fire

  • Energy Management
  • Climate Change Adaption
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Adapting spatial developments in local government areas to climate change means each site needs to be assessed for its suitability now as well as its appropriateness and vulnerability over its expected lifetime. This fact sheet provides guidance on how to incorporate projected changes in extreme weather events, fire risk and implications for energy and insurance cost and availability for your development.

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Adaptation to Climate Change - Sea level rise & flooding

  • Climate Change Adaption
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Adapting spatial developments in local government areas to climate change means each site needs to be assessed for its suitability now as well as its appropriateness and vulnerability over its expected lifetime. This fact sheet provides guidance on how to incorporate projected changes in extreme weather events, water supply and implications for energy and insurance cost and availability for your development.
 
 

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Innovative transport modes

  • Access and Transport
    • Content rating:
    • 2 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Although conventional road transport is an essential element in any new development, supplementary transport options can be considered to achieve the full potential of planned developments.   

 
 

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