Canberra’s planning, including dual-occupancy rules, has come under fire from the convenor of the Prime Minister’s urban design task force.
John Mant was in Canberra to deliver the Institute of Landscape Architects Biennial public lecture.
In the lecture and in an interview at the weekend he said planning in Canberra was based more on property boundary lines than sound urban-design policies. Planners were saying that provided your building was set back from the boundary a given distance you could build what you liked. This took little or no account of neighbours, public spaces, orientation, aspect and other local conditions.
“”It is administratively convenient, but a poor way to create a good urban environment,” he said. “”Canberra could have done better. It is a poor way to get a good urban environment with one dwelling per block and much worse with two or more.”
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