Developers - Guidelines
2.0 Integration of Affordable Housing

OBJECTIVE

To integrate affordable housing within residential and mixed-use developments.

Desired outcomes
Suggested responses

2.1 Integrating affordable housing

Affordable housing is integrated into new residential and mixed-use developments, where it is not a stand-alone development on its own site.

2.1.1 Affordable housing is:

A stand-alone development

OR
Individual dwellings integrated into larger developments with separate dedicated pedestrian and vehicular entries from public or private streets.

OR
Separately titled development/s in larger-scale projects with separate dedicated pedestrian and vehicular entries from public streets.

OR
Studio apartments or other dwelling types integrated into larger apartment buildings. 

2.2 Fitting into the neighbourhood

The dwelling development respects its neighbourhood setting. 

2.2.1 The form, scale, variety, detail, appearance, setbacks and general relationship to the public realm of a dwelling development respects its streetscape setting. Dwellings are massed to form buildings that match or complement the scale of buildings in the streetscape. 

2.3 Individuality and variety

Dwellings within a group development are provided with cost-effective variations in design treatments to express individuality.

2.3.1 Developments are provided with variation to at least three of the following four aspects of appearance: form, colour, materials and detailing.

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