3.8.3.7 Code Requirements

3.8.3.7 Code Requirements
The design of the landscape elements is to comply with all relevant design and
construction codes, regulations, and authority requirements.
a) Rail Requirements
• CityRail Crime Prevention through Environmental Design Standards
• DDA Disability Transport Standard (DTS)
• Approved Railway Station Access Strategy.
b) Government and Authority Requirements
• Local Council, Local Government Authority and DIPNR requirements
• DUAP Guideline Document ‘Environmental Planning for ESD’ July 1995
• RTA standards and requirements
• Relevant Council Standards and Plant Lists.
c) Construction Standards
• AS/NZS 4586 ‘Slip resistance classification of new pedestrian surface materials’
• AS 3661.1 ‘Slip Resistance of Pedestrian Surfaces – Requirements’ (Partly
superseded by AS/NZS 4586) • HB 197:1999 ‘An Introductory Guide to the Slip Resistance of Pedestrian Surface
Materials’
• AS 3661.2 ‘Slip Resistance of Pedestrian Surfaces – Guide to Reduction of Slip
Hazards’
• AS 1428 Parts 1-4 ‘Design for Access and Mobility’
• Natspec guide – Purchase of Advanced Trees
• Relevant BCA Standards for egress and access
• Austroads ‘Guide to Traffic Engineering Practice – Parking’
• Austroads ‘Guide to Traffic Engineering Practice – Pedestrians’
• Austroads ‘Guide to Traffic Engineering Practice – Bicycles’
• RTA ‘Road Design Guide’.