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DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR DETACHED HOUSING · PRECINCTS F AND G
5. LIVABILITY & SUSTAINABILITY 5.1 LIVABILITY A livable home is designed and built to meet your changing needs throughout your lifetime.
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Space around your car park to ensure you can open car doors fully and easily move around the vehicle; and
Livable homes include ‘easy living’ features that make them safer, more comfortable and easier to access for everyone, at every stage of life.
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Stairways designed to reduce the likelihood of injury and also enable future adaptation.
Easy living features include: •
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A safe, continuous, level and step-free path of travel from the street entrance and/or parking area to your home’s entrance;
Find out more by downloading the free Livable Housing Design Guidelines: www.livablehousingaustralia.org.au/.
5.3 ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Frasers Property Australia and Shellharbour City Council are committed to creating a sustainable community at The Waterfront Shell Cove. Improving the performance of your home through environmentally sustainable design is a major focus of our sustainability approach.
Minimising energy consumption of households is an important contribution to reducing greenhouse emissions that contribute to climate change.
This section articulates specific practices to be adopted in the design and construction of dwellings at The Waterfront Shell Cove to assist you in designing your new sustainable home. All dwellings are to comply with current standards including BASIX and Nathers. All owners and builders are encouraged to go beyond the regulatory requirements to increase the sustainability of development at The Waterfront Shell Cove.
At least one step-free entrance into your home;
Direct and level access from street and parking areas (Source: Livable Housing Australia)
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5.2 SUSTAINABILITY
Photo voltaic energy generation
The energy consumption of households can be reduced though the inclusion of fluorescent or LED lighting, high star rating appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines and the installation of ceiling fans, external clothes lines and skylights. Maximising natural heating and cooling features of your site and home will reduce the need for mechanical thermal comfort control by air conditioning. It is recognised that there are some conditions when air conditioning and
Integrated solar tiles (Nu-Lok)
Operable timber louvres for sunshading and privacy
