Proposal to Initiate a Design Standard – Driveway Crossovers for Residential Development

The Design Standard will provide technical guidance in the assessment of driveway crossovers serving new residential development. It will seek to ensure that new driveway crossovers contribute to the public realm.

The design standard for residential driveway crossovers will:

• enable assessment of public realm interactions against an appropriate instrument during the development assessment process
• elevate consideration of trees and common infrastructure within development assessment, reducing the likelihood of conflict with driveway designs
• provide certainty to developers as to what standard of design is envisaged or required for driveway crossovers
• improve safety outcomes by elevating consideration of appropriate driveway widths and separations from common infrastructure and trees in development assessment
• provide a common resource to smaller councils without their own engineering standards for driveway crossovers
• assist larger master-planned developments to leverage opportunities for economies of scale.

Consultation on the proposed outcomes of the design standard will occur in due course.

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