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Mobility Management: Design for Active Transport

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• Fact Sheet
• by Kirk Bendall
• posted 24 Jun 2008

This Fact Sheet provides suggestions and is intended to advise how residential development participants can help deliver better environments for walking, cycling and using public transport. Ideally, new developments have viable access and transport options are always a viable choice, so transport impacts are lessened throughout the life of developments.

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• Feasability, Planning, Design, Construction, Lot Creation, Completion,
• Greenfield Development, Brownfield Development,
• Access and Transport,
• Developer, State Government, Local Government,

Community facilities

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• Fact Sheet
• by Emma Partridge
• posted 25 May 2008

Sustainable development incorporates not just the environmental aspects of sustainability, but also important social dimensions. Community facilities are one element of the social infrastructure that new developments can provide, and as such they can play a key role in contributing to a socially sustainable community.

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• Feasability, Planning, Design, Completion,
• Place Making and Social Sustainability,
• Developer, State Government, Local Government,

Siting

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• Fact Sheet
• by Your Development Administrator
• posted 09 May 2008

The decisions that are made during the initial site selection and the subsequent site design will have a significant impact on the development's overall sustainability. A range of issues need to be considered, including where to actually site the community, how to incorporate the existing natural features into the design, where to place roads, dwellings, parks and community facilities and how this will all fit within the context of the existing community and the overall objectives of the development.

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• Feasability, Planning, Design,
• Greenfield Development, Greyfield Development,
• Site Ecology, Estate Design, Access and Transport, Water Management, Energy Management,
• Small (<100 lots), Medium (100-1000 lots), Large (1000-5000 lots), Very Large (>5000 lots),
• Medium Density, Low Density,
• Developer, State Government, Local Government,