Edmondson Park South Development Control Plan 2012 - Landcom

Edmondson Park South DCP 2012 November 2012
3.5 Safety and Security
For Edmondson Park South to be a desirable place to live, work and visit, it will need to be perceived as a safe
place. A safe and secure environment encourages activity, and therefore vitality. A secure environment
provides casual surveillance of public space and avoids physical threats to safety.
Objectives
1. To enhance perceptions of community safety.
2. To provide pedestrians with safe, clear and direct routes of travel.
3. Provide a high level of passive surveillance.
Controls
1. Landscape planting should consider pedestrian visibility.
2. Appropriate evening and night-time lighting is to be provided in all streets, public spaces and parks,
particularly along pedestrian and cyclist routes.
3. In parks, provide pedestrian pathways that are direct with clear sightlines. This will be particularly
important to join the residential areas across Maxwell’s Creek North Riparian Park to the Town Centre.
4. Provide adequate signage describing pathways and facilities.
5. The design of streets and location of street furniture is to allow adequate sight lines for motorists.
6. The design and maintenance of paving and other ground plane treatments is to avoid trip hazards.
7. Driveway entry-exits are to provide adequate sight lines to adjacent footpaths, streets and cycle ways.
8. All public spaces including streets, parks, squares and plazas must be directly overlooked by adjacent
development.
9. Active uses must be orientated to streets in commercial or mixed-use areas. In residential areas, living
rooms, verandahs and / or kitchens are encouraged to be orientated to the street.
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