39Local retail centres

39 Local retail centres

39 Local retail centres

Local retail centres are to incorporate a range of small-scale shops and business uses at street level with offices or low-rise shop-top housing (being housing not on the ground floor) above to create places with a village-like atmosphere that provide a safe and comfortable environment for pedestrians and a range of business and community uses meeting the needs of the surrounding area.

Development is to integrate with the established pattern of the centre and the continuity of existing streetscapes is to be maintained.

The building height in local retail centres is to accord with the height limit for the applicable locality, unless the Locality Statement provides otherwise.

Development that adjoins residential land is not to reduce the amenity enjoyed by adjoining occupants. In this regard the built form of development in the local retail centre is to provide a transition to adjacent residential development, including reasonable setbacks from side and rear boundaries, particularly at the first floor level.

Other built form controls set out in a Locality Statement which are not specifically addressed to a local retail centre are not to be considered.

Note—

The location of local retail centres is shown on the map.

cl 39: Am 2005 (561), Sch 1 [5].