Landscape Design Guidelines
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Prepared by the Hobsons Bay City Council Urban Planning Department Hobsons Bay City Council Landscape Design Guidelines, 2005
Prepared by Hobsons Bay City Council Urban Planning Department
Acknowledgements
Staff of Hobsons Bay City Council Urban Planning Department; Wendy Carter; Tom McQuillan, Parks Officer, Hobsons Bay City Council; Clare Johnston, Parks Technical Officer, Hobsons Bay City Council; Jeremy Pike, Landscape Architecture Department, University of Melbourne.
Photographic and illustration credits
All photographs and illustrations by Bart Gane, except ‘Industrial fencing, Altona North’, page 34, by Darren Camilleri. Mural at Altona Meadows Central Square Shopping Centre, page 26, by Flossie Pietsch and local school children.
Cover: Williamstown Botanical Gardens.
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Page 1 of 59 Contents Drainage 17
Circulation & services 18 Part 1 Pedestrian access 19 Introduction 4 Car access & parking spaces 20 Services 21 Objectives 4 When to use the guidelines 4 Use & layout design 22 Related policy 4 Definition of terms 5 Secluded private space 23 Side and rear fencing 23 Part 2 Pedestrian surfaces 23 Planting design 24 Landscape context & site analysis 6 Contributing to public amenity 26 Climate 7 Topography 7 Pedestrian connections to the street 27 Wind 7 Front fences 27 Soils 8 Driveways 28 Surrounding land uses 8 Urban canopy trees 28 Natural heritage 9 Design detail 30
Neighbourhood character & cultural heritage 10 Part 3
Heritage precincts 10 Information specific to industrial & commercial landscapes 32 Areas near coastal or public parks 12 General residential areas 13 Layout and circulation 33 Fencing 34 Site envelope Off-site amenity 34 Natural heritage 35 Orientation 14 Maintenance and irrigation 35 Views 15 Planting design 36 Existing vegetation 16 Permeability 16
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Appendices 37
1. Information to accompany landscape plans 2. Landscape plants for residential gardens 3. Landscape plants for industrial and commercial sites 4. Alphabetical list of recommended landscape plants 5. Tree planting detail 6. Landscape bonds
References 59
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Page 3 of 59 Part 1. When to use the guidelines
Introduction The Landscape Design Guidelines are to be used by designers when preparing landscape plans for planning approval by Council. Residents interested in resource sustainability and gardens suited Hobsons Bay City Council encourages a landscape style respectful to the local character of Hobsons Bay may also find this document of local conditions and history. These guidelines describe policies of benefit. and characteristics that are to inform landscape design proposals. Particular attention should be given to site analysis and the The use of technical terminology has been kept to a minimum, but it considerate placement and long term management of trees. is assumed that readers will have a reasonable level of professional understanding or the ability to use references when unclear about certain terms or where a more detailed understanding of a topic is Objectives required.
The objectives of Council’s Landscape Guidelines are: Related policy