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LANDSCAPE REPORT

Proposed Kaufland Store and Carpark 1158 Nepean Highway, Mornington

Landscape Report

For: Mornington Shire Council February 21st 2019

Papworth Davies Pty Ltd 9/83-87 Dover Street Cremorne, VIC 3121

Telephone +61 3 9015 7680 www.papworthdavies.com.au

LANDSCAPE REPORT

Proposed Kaufland Store and Carpark 1158 Nepean Highway, Mornington

Landscape Report

For: Mornington Shire Council

February 21st 2019

For and on behalf of Papworth Davies Pty Ltd Approved by: Brendan Papworth

Signed: __________________ Position: Director _________________________ Date: 21st February 2019 ___________________

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CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 KAUFLAND 1 1.2 KAUFLAND STORES IN VICTORIA ADVISORY COMMITTEE 1 1.3 QUALIFICATIONS 1

2 ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS

3 DIGITAL LANDSCAPE MODEL

4 PLANNING BACKGROUND

4.1 INDUSTRIAL 3 ZONE (IN3Z) 3 4.2 DEVELOPMENT PLAN OVERLAY (DPO2) 4 4.3 GREEN WEDGE ZONE (GWZ3) 5 4.4 GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONES (GRZ1) 6 4.5 SPECIAL USE ZONE 2 (SUZ2) 7 4.6 PUBLIC USE ZONE 2 (PUZ2) 8 4.7 LOCAL PLANNING POLICY FRAMEWORK 9 4.8 PARTICULAR PROVISIONS – CAR PARKING 10 4.9 MORNINGTON PENINSULA LOCALISED PLANNING STATEMENT 11 4.10 PREFERRED LANDSCAPE CHARACTER, BASED ON PLANNING SCHEME 11

5 SUBJECT SITE AND SURROUNDS

5.1 THE PROPERTY OF 1158 NEPEAN HIGHWAY, MORNINGTON 12 5.2 PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT PORTION OF THE 1158 NEPEAN HIGHWAY PROPERTY 13 5.3 OAKBANK ROAD INTERSECTION AND THE NEPEAN HIGHWAY FRONTAGE 14 5.4 OAKBANK ROAD 16 5.5 SOUTHERN BOUNDARY 19 5.6 EXISTING TENANCIES FRONTING NEPEAN HIGHWAY IN THE INDUSTRIAL 3 ZONE (IN3Z) 21 5.7 SUMMARY OF SUBJECT SITE AND SURROUNDS ANALYSIS 24

6 THE PROPOSAL

6.1 PROPOSED NEPEAN HIGHWAY FRONTAGE 25 6.2 ACCESS FROM OAKBANK ROAD 27 6.3 NORTHERN BOUNDARY 29 6.4 SOUTHERN BOUNDARY 30 6.5 EASTERN (REAR) BOUNDARY 31 6.6 PROPOSED SIGNAGE 32

7 CONCLUSIONS

7.1 IMPACTS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF THE GREEN WEDGE ZONE AND THE STREETSCAPE OF THE

NEPEAN HIGHWAY 34

CONTENTS

7.2 LEVELS AND RETAINING WALLS 37 7.3 ACCESS FROM OAKBANK ROAD AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING TREES 37 7.4 INSUFFICIENT LANDSCAPE ALLOCATION TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH BOUNDARIES AND THE

REMOVAL OF EXISTING TREES 38 7.5 CARPARK FRONTAGE DESIGN AND LANDSCAPE ALLOCATION 39 7.6 SIGNAGE 41 7.7 FAILURE TO FOLLOW DEVELOPMENT PLAN OVERLAY (DPO2) REQUIREMENTS42 7.8 DECLARATION 42

Proposed Kaufland Store and Carpark Landscape Architecture Expert Evidence

PAPWORTH DAVIES PTY LTD LANDSCAPE REPORT/21 FEBRUARY 2019

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1 INTRODUCTION

I have been instructed by Harwood Andrews, acting for Morning Peninsula Shire, to provide landscape expert evidence statement and presentation to the Advisory Committee convened to consider the proposed development of a Kaufland Store and associated carpark and accessways to be located and leased on a portion of the property located at 1158 Nepean Highway in Mornington.

I visited and photographed the site and surrounds on Tuesday 29th January and again on Thursday 14th February.

1.1 KAUFLAND

Kaufland is a German-based grocery chain and is a subsidiary of the Schwartz Group, the world’s fourth largest retailer. Kaufland Australia Pty Ltd intends to the enter the Victorian market and through its consultant Planning and Property Partners Pty Ltd, has requested that the Minister for Planning assist in facilitating its plan to deliver an initial number of supermarket-based stores.

1.2 KAUFLAND STORES IN VICTORIA ADVISORY COMMITTEE

An advisory committee (“Kaufland Stores in Victoria Advisory Committee”) has been established to provide advice to the Minister for Planning in regard to all relevant planning matters associated with the location, development and use of the six proposed Kaufland stores in metropolitan Melbourne.

1.3 QUALIFICATIONS

I have a Bachelor of Applied Science in Landscape Architecture from RMIT (1993) with part of my degree undertaken at the University of Osaka in Japan.

I have more than 27 year’s experience in professional practice in Landscape Architecture in Australia as well as internationally and am a member of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.

I have previously appeared at Panel Hearings, as well as VCAT and RMPAT tribunal hearings (in Victoria and Tasmania respectively) to provide Expert Witness evidence on Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning-related issues.

A Curriculum Vitae is attached as an Appendix to this report (refer Annex A).



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2 ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS

Architectural plans, elevations and cross-sections (dated 13th February 2019) have been prepared by Leffler Simes Architects and form the basis of my assessment and evidence:

• TP-01 Rev.ACP Title Sheet (including Artist’s Impression image);

• TP-02 Rev.ACP Site Context Plan;

• TP-03 Rev.ACP Existing Conditions Plan;

• TP-04 Rev.ACP Proposed Site & Ground Floor Plan;

• TP-05 Rev.ACP First Floor Plan;

• TP-06 Rev.ACP Roof Plan;

• TP-07 Rev.ACP Overall Elevations;

• TP-08 Rev.ACP Street Elevations;

• TP-09 Rev.ACP Overall Sections;

• TP-10 Rev.ACP Signage Diagrams;

• TP-11 Rev.ACP Shadow Analysis; and

• TP-12 Rev.ACP Artists Impressions.

3 DIGITAL LANDSCAPE MODEL

To illustrate the landscape impacts of the proposed development, I have prepared a digital landscape model that includes the proposed development as well the existing Bata building and surrounding environs of the 1158 Nepean Highway property, as well as the Nepean Highway streetscape.

The digital model was prepared accurately, using information from the proposed architectural drawings and the features and levels survey.

The software used to prepare the digital model was undertaken with “Sketch-up” which was then imported into “Lumion” to create an accurate impression of the proposed development.

For the digital model, and in the absence of a Landscape Concept for the proposal, I have shown the proposed “landscape” areas, as defined on the architectural drawings as grassed and have shown these in a contrasting colour from those areas beyond the Planning Unit. A Landscape Concept, which has not been prepared by the proponent, may include trees and shrubs but, at the time of writing this report and preparing the digital landscape model, this is unknown.

Views that have been generated from the digital model have been made at an eye level of approximately 1.6 metres with a focal length of 18mm.

I have made the assumption that the southern boundary fence would be a timber paling fence of 1800mm high. Surrounding vegetation, such as tree canopies in neighbouring properties are indicative only.



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4 PLANNING BACKGROUND

This section provides an overview of the planning provisions for the property of 1158 Nepean Highway that are relevant to Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning.

4.1 INDUSTRIAL 3 ZONE (IN3Z)

The site and the rest of the “Mornington Parkland Industrial Area” sits within an Industrial 3 Zone (IN3Z) and a Development Plan Overlay (DP02).

The Industrial 3 Zone allows for “limited retail opportunities including convenience shops, small scale supermarkets and associated shop.” Decision guidelines in regard to approval of a development proposal that relate to landscape include:

• Any natural or cultural values on or near the land; • Streetscape character; • Landscape treatment; and • Interface with non-industrial areas

Figure 4-1 below illustrates the site’s locality within the Industrial 3 Zone.

Figure 4-1 Zoning plan for the subject site and surrounds



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4.2 DEVELOPMENT PLAN OVERLAY (DPO2)

The property and the rest of the Industrial 3 Zone properties area also contained within a Development Plan Overlay (DP02), as shown below in Figure 4-2.

Figure 4-2 Development Plan Overlay DP02

The Development Plan Overlay was established by Mornington Shire Council to “ensure an appropriate standard of development for this prominent area, including a consistent building setback from the Nepean Highway frontage”.

The Development Plan Overlay requires:

• A minimum building setback of 90 metres to the Nepean Highway…;

• A minimum setback of 15 metres from side and rear boundaries;

• A maximum plot ratio of 0.35; and

• A minimum of 50 percent of the site set aside for landscaping.



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4.3 GREEN WEDGE ZONE (GWZ3)

A Green Wedge Zone (GWZ3) is located between the townships of Mount Eliza and Mornington. It is shown below as a light olive coloured area in Figure 4-3 stretching from Port Phillip Bay in a south-easterly direction across the Nepean Highway and the Peninsula Highway.

The property of 1158 Nepean Highway is located immediately south of the Green Wedge Zone where it finishes at the northern boundary of the Mornington township.

Figure 4-3 Green Wedge Zone (GWZ3) between Mount Eliza and Mornington

The Green Wedge Zone has been established to protect and enhance the area between Mount Eliza and Mornington and maintain agricultural / rural uses to emphasise the landscape separation of the two townships.

The property of 1158 Nepean Highway is, by implication of the Green Wedge Zone, a “gateway” site into Mornington, given it is the first “non-Green Wedge property” that is viewed from the Nepean Highway when entering Mornington from the Mount Eliza direction.



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4.4 GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONES (GRZ1)

General Residential Zones (GWZ1) are located adjacent to the 1158 Nepean Highway and on the opposite side of the Nepean Highway, as shown below in pink in Figure 4-4.


Consideration of the existing dwellings in the residential areas adjoining the property and nearby are important in the context of the site, particular those directly abutting the site.



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4.5 SPECIAL USE ZONE 2 (SUZ2)

Special Use Zones (SUZ2) are located north, diagonally across the intersection with Oakbank Road and Nepean Highway from the 1158 Nepean Highway property as well as further east along Oakbank Road. These are shown as light green below in Figure 4-5.

North of the intersection with Oakbank Road and Nepean Highway and extending further north is the Mornington Golf Club which is also located within the Green Wedge Zone (GWZ3). East of the property along Oakbank Road is Padua College.

Both the golf course and the college contribute to the landscape character of this area and reinforce the Green Wedge Zone and the adjoining areas.




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4.6 PUBLIC USE ZONE 2 (PUZ2)

A Public Use Zone (PUZ2) is located north of the Nepean Highway and west of the 1158 Nepean Highway property. This area is shown as yellow on the northern side of the Nepean Highway below in Figure 4-6.

The Public Use Zone contains the Mornington Swim Centre and Mornington Secondary College.

The college and the swim centre, including the college’s open grassed areas, make an important contribution to the landscape character of the Nepean Highway in this area.




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4.7 LOCAL PLANNING POLICY FRAMEWORK

Local Planning Policy Framework clauses relevant to Landscape include:

• Clause 12.05 – Significant Environments and Landscapes 12.05-2S Landscapes

o Ensure development does not detract from the natural qualities of significant landscape areas;

o Improve the landscape qualities, open space linkages and environmental performance in significant landscapes and open spaces, including green wedges…;

o Ensure important natural features are protected and enhanced.

• Clause 15.01-1S – Urban Design

o Require development to respond to its context in terms of character, cultural identity, natural features, surrounding landscape and climate;

o Ensure that development provides landscaping that supports the amenity, attractiveness and safety of the public realm;

o Ensure that development, including signs, minimises detrimental impacts on amenity, on the natural and built environment and on the safety and efficiency of roads;

o Promote good urban design along and abutting transport corridors.

• Clause 15.01-2S – Building Design

o Ensure development responds and contributes to the strategic and cultural context of its location;

o Minimise the detrimental impact of the development on neighbouring properties, the public realm and the natural environment;

o Ensure development is designed to protect and enhance valued landmarks, views and vistas;

o Ensure development provides landscaping that responds to its site context, enhances the built form and creates safe and attractive spaces;

o Encourage development to retain existing vegetation.

• Clause 15.01-2S – Energy and Resource Efficiency

o Encourage retention of existing vegetation and planting of new vegetation as part of development…proposals.

• Clause 15.01-5S – Neighbourhood Character

o Ensure development responds to its context and reinforces a sense of place and the valued features and characteristics of the local environment and place by emphasising the underlying natural landscape character and significant vegetation.



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• Clause 21.06 – Strategic Framework and the Peninsula’s Settlement Pattern

o Define clear and stable township boundaries which reinforce separation between Mt Eliza and Mornington.

• Clause 21.07-4 – Industrial Areas

o Industrial areas are often in prominent locations at the entry to townships and adjoining main roads. It is therefore important that the standard of design applied to industrial buildings and sites contributes to the presentation of these areas and that they respect the community’s aspirations for a built environment which is orderly, safe and attractive;

o The interface between industrial areas and residential areas…requires careful management to avoid loss of residential amenity or constraints on industrial use;

o Ensure appropriate development of industrial areas which ensures development design and built form which compliments and contributes to the township environment;

o Ensure appropriate development of industrial areas which provides and maintains appropriate buffers between residential areas and other land uses which are incompatible with residential activity.

o Prevent the development of unsightly industrial areas in exposed locations.

4.8 PARTICULAR PROVISIONS – CAR PARKING

Clauses relevant to Landscape include:

• Clause 52.06– Car Parking Design Standard 5 – Urban Design

o Ground level car parking, garage doors and accessways must not visually dominate public space;

o Car parking within building (including visible portions of partly submerged basements) must be screened or obscured where possible, including through the use of occupied tenancies, landscaping, architectural treatments and artworks.

• Clause 52.06– Car Parking Design Standard 7 – Landscaping

o The layout of carparking areas must provide for water sensitive urban design treatment and landscaping;

o Landscaping and trees must be planted to provide shade and shelter, soften the appearance of ground level parking and aid in the clear identification of pedestrian paths;

o Ground level car parking spaces must include trees planted with flush grilles. Spacing of trees must be determined having regard to the expected size of the selected species at maturity.



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• Clause 52.06-10 – Car Parking Decision Guidelines

o The protection and enhancement of the streetscape;

o The provisions of landscaping for screening and shade;

o The amenity of the locality…and the amenity of pedestrians;

4.9 MORNINGTON PENINSULA LOCALISED PLANNING STATEMENT

Clauses relevant to Landscape include:

• Protecting Landscape and Cultural Values

o The character of the Peninsula’s rural area, rural landscapes…will be protected including provisions to ensure the appropriate siting and appearance of building and works and provisions to prevent intrusive commercial development including…signage on roads;

o All development will be designed to respect and, where possible, enhance the natural environment, the rural landscape and scenic values of the Green Wedge.

4.10 PREFERRED LANDSCAPE CHARACTER, BASED ON PLANNING SCHEME

A summary of the preferred landscape character for the site, based on my planning scheme analysis are as follows:

• The site’s location as a “gateway” into Mornington (and the first property seen on the left when travelling out of the Green Wedge from Mount Eliza into Mornington) is important from a number of perspectives, including landscape, as it is an important transition from the Green Wedge Zone to the Industrial Zone that the site sits within;

• The Development Plan Overlay’s requirements (DP02), coupled with the site’s prominence as the first seen from the Green Wedge Zone, require a strong landscape response that provides for a well setback and attractively landscaped frontage and sides to the development;

• Existing vegetation should be retained where possible, particularly the existing trees located on the property boundaries;

• Amenity of existing residential areas to the east should be protected and/or enhanced with any development of the site; and

• Signage should not dominate views from the highway in front of the site, whether it be pole-mounted signs, pylon signs or signage attached to any buildings.



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5 SUBJECT SITE AND SURROUNDS

5.1 THE PROPERTY OF 1158 NEPEAN HIGHWAY, MORNINGTON

1158 Nepean Highway is located on the northern edge of the Mornington township, south of the intersection with Oakbank Road. It sits within what is known as the “Mornington Parkland Industrial Area” that extends from Oakbank Road to Bungower Road, 800 metres to the south. It is shown below in Figure 5-1.

The property contains the Bata Shoe Company building with accompanying informal gravel carpark areas accessed from Oakbank Road.

An area with existing trees is located east of the informal carparks in the property’s north-east corner, adjacent to existing residential properties to the east located on Hillpark Drive.

The remainder of the site is mainly grassed with some scattered trees as well as mature existing trees located along the southern and eastern boundaries. A storage area is also located

Immediately to the south of the 1158 Nepean Highway property is a former nursery property currently used as a boutique custom picture framing studio, “Latent Images”. Further to the south and contained within the Industrial Zone and Development Plan Overlay is the Mornington Industrial Park, the Mornington Homemaker Centre and Mornington Bunnings.

Figure 5-1 1158 Nepean Highway, Mornington.



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5.2 PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT PORTION OF THE 1158 NEPEAN HIGHWAY PROPERTY

The proposed Kaufland store and associated carpark are proposed to be developed on the portion of the property to the south of the existing Bata Shoes building and north of the neighbouring single dwelling fronting the Nepean Highway. This is shown below in Figure 5-2.

Figure 5-2 Portion of 1158 Nepean Highway land proposed for the Kaufland Development.

The portion of the site proposed to be developed is relatively flat in appearance, falling approximately 2 metres away from the existing shoe factory/outlet building in a north-south direction.

The majority of the area of the property that is proposed to be developed for the Kaufland Store and carpark is generally a vacant grassed expanse with a few scattered existing trees, located close to the Bata Shoes building. There are also existing mature trees located along the southern boundary.

The Nepean Highway frontage of this portion of the property has for many years been the site where Silvers Circus has operated when they come to the Mornington area. On my initial visit to the site, the circus was set-up and operational.



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5.3 OAKBANK ROAD INTERSECTION AND THE NEPEAN HIGHWAY FRONTAGE

When travelling into Mornington from Mount Eliza along the Nepean Highway, the property of 1158 Nepean Highway is first seen at the intersection of Oakbank Road. This intersection marks the finish of the Green Wedge Zone if travelling from Mt Eliza. The landscape of the Green Wedge is generally of a rural nature, such as shown below in Figure 5-3.

Figure 5-3 View of rural landscape in Green Wedge Zone looking south, 300 metres north-east of the Subject

Site.

On arrival at the intersection of Oakbank Road, the landscape of the Subject Site presents as open grassed with scattered trees. This is shown below in Figure 5-4. The existing Bata Shoes buildings are well set back into the landscape and are nestled

behind existing trees and vegetation. From a landscape perspective, the site presents as a smooth transition from the Green Wedge Zone.

Figure 5-4 View south-east into subject site from intersection with Nepean Highway and Oakbank Road.



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The portion of the site proposed to be developed is relatively flat in appearance, falling approximately 2 metres away from the existing shoe factory/outlet building in a north-south direction. The landscape of this portion of the site has an open grassed nature with some scattered trees with extensive canopy trees and vegetation located along the southern boundary, as shown below in Figure 5-5.

Figure 5-5 View east from the Nepean Highway of the Proposed Portion of the Site to be Developed.

The existing landscape on the opposite side of the Nepean Highway from the subject site is dominated by the existing Cypress Pine trees that line the side of the highway. Existing Pear trees can also be seen in the central median. This is shown below in Figure 5-6.

Beyond the row of large Cypress tree, the landscape of the Mornington Secondary College can be seen. Campus buildings beyond can be seen and are well setback. The landscape is one of grassed open space with distant buildings and vegetation. This reinforces the sense of landscape seen elsewhere through this portion of the Nepean Highway close to the Industrial Zone and the subject site in particular.

Figure 5-6 Grounds of Mornington Secondary College, seen beyond existing Cypress and Pear street tree

plantings on the north-western side of the Nepean Highway, opposite the subject site.



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5.4 OAKBANK ROAD

The property of 1158 Nepean Highway fronts onto Oakbank Road on its northern boundary. Vehicular access into the site is currently gained from Oakbank Road. These provide for access to carparking and deliveries related to the Bata Shoe buildings. The landscape of these access points is a well landscaped nature with trees and grassed areas. The existing buildings recede into the background because of the existing trees and vegetation. This is shown below in Figure 5-7 and Figure 5-8.

Figure 5-7 Existing vehicular access to Bata Shoe buildings.

Figure 5-8 Existing vehicular access to Bata Shoe carpark area.



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At the north-east corner of the property, there are extensive plantings of mature trees, creating a well-vegetated landscape as seen from Oakbank Road. The trees include native and exotic species. The Oakbank Road frontage of this area is shown below in Figure 5-9 and the landscape character of the treed area inside the site is also shown below in Figure 5-10.

Figure 5-9 Existing treed area at north-eastern corner of site, fronting Oakbank Road.

Figure 5-10 View from within the existing treed area at the north-eastern corner of site.



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To the east of the property and adjoining the well-treed area are existing residential properties located along Hillpark Drive as well as one residential property fronting Oakbank Road. The properties along the western side of Hillpark Drive back onto the property of 1158 Nepean Highway. A fire track or informal access track for vehicles is located along the edge of the boundary inside the property of 1158 Nepean Highway. This vehicle track access and the interface between the existing residential property fronting Oakbank Road and the adjacent treed area is shown below in Figure 5-11.

Figure 5-11 Existing residential property fronting Oakbank Road and adjacent to the subject site (Existing vehicle

access track can be seen with white car parked at its access point).

The rural landscape of the Green Wedge Zone can be seen from this part of Oakbank Road adjacent to the subject site. The landscape of broad open grassed expanses and trees is shown below in Figure 5-12.

Figure 5-12 Green Wedge Zone landscape looking north from Oakbank Road opposite 1158 Nepean Highway.



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5.5 SOUTHERN BOUNDARY

The southern boundary of the subject site is located adjacent to the neighbouring property of 1150 Nepean Highway which is currently utilised as a boutique picture framing studio. The southern boundary contains a number of native and exotic trees located both within the subject site and also within the neighbouring property. These trees are interspersed in each property along the length of the boundary. Examples of these trees are shown below in Figure 5-13, Figure 5-14, Figure 5-15, and Figure 5-16.

Figure 5-13 Existing mature Eucalypt tree located at south west corner of subject site.

Figure 5-14 Existing eucalypt and neighbouring trees along southern boundary.



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Figure 5-15 Existing trees along southern boundary located on subject site and adjoining property.

Figure 5-16 Existing trees along southern boundary located on subject site and adjoining property.



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5.6 EXISTING TENANCIES FRONTING NEPEAN HIGHWAY IN THE INDUSTRIAL 3 ZONE (IN3Z)

Other tenancies located along the Nepean Highway frontage vary in their landscape frontages. Directly adjacent to the south of 1158 Nepean Highway the property at 1150 Nepean Highway is utilised as a boutique picture framing studio. The frontage of this property is well-vegetated with a variety of trees and shrubs with very limited views into the property. A large mature gum tree is prominent at the boundary with the subject site. This is shown below in Figure 5-17.

Figure 5-17 Landscape frontage of 1150 Nepean Highway.

The next property to the south along the Nepean Highway is the Mornington Industrial Park. The landscape frontage for the industrial park is characterised by grassed areas with scattered canopy trees of mainly native character. Buildings of the industrial park are well setback from the highway and recede into the background because of the landscape frontage with its undulating grassed landscape and canopy trees. There is no carparking located close to the Nepean Highway. This is shown below in Figure 5-18.

Figure 5-18 Landscape frontage of the Mornington Industrial Park.



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The next property to the south of the Mornington Industrial Park is the Mornington Homemaker Centre. The landscape frontage for the shopping centre is characterised by open grassed areas. This is shown below in Figure 5-19.

Buildings and carparking are well setback from the highway and recede into the background because of the landscape frontage because of the large expanse of grassed area. There are no carparking areas located close to the Nepean Highway. Mature trees associated with the carparking areas can be seen in the distance as part of the overall landscape composition.

Figure 5-19 Landscape frontage of the Mornington Homemaker Centre.

The next property to the south of the shopping centre and the southernmost of the properties within the Industrial 3 Zone fronting the Nepean Highway, is the Mornington Bunnings store outlet. The landscape of the frontage is characterised by a grassed setback and extensive tall native canopy trees and hedged shrubs. This is shown below in Figure 5-20.

Figure 5-20 Landscape frontage of the Mornington Bunnings Store.



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The Bunnings store’s carpark is located in the frontage of the property while the store’s building is setback into the site. Tall, mainly native canopy trees are located within the carpark. The carpark and building are also set-down in level by a number of metres from the Nepean Highway along much of its length. The carpark is closer to the highway than other properties along the Nepean Highway frontage but the combination of the large level difference with the highway, the extensive canopy trees and some shrub planting treatments combine to recede the store’s building into the landscape and reduces the visual impacts of the carpark. This is shown below in Figure 5-21.

Figure 5-21 Carpark Landscape of the Mornington Bunnings Store.

The lower levels of the Bunnings Site compared to the Nepean Highway, in particular, greatly assist in the buffering of the carpark and the large building from the Nepean Highway. This is in stark contrast to the Bata Shoes property at 1158 Nepean Highway which is the highest point of the Industrial Zone fronting the Nepean Highway, contrasting with the Bunnings site which is the lowest.



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5.7 SUMMARY OF SUBJECT SITE AND SURROUNDS ANALYSIS

A summary of my inspections of the subject site and surrounds are as follows:

• The portion of the site proposed to be developed for the Kaufland Store is prominent and visually exposed from the Nepean Highway due to its corner site location, its higher elevation than the highway and the mainly open grassed character;

• Other developed sites further south along the Nepean Highway in the Industrial Zone (IZ3) are either well-setback from the Nepean Highway with deep grassed frontages (such as the Mornington Industrial Park and the Mornington Homeware Centre) or are well set-down below the level of the Nepean Highway with canopy trees (such as the Bunnings Mornington store) – all of these frontage conditions assist in receding the developments (including carparks and buildings) back into the landscape;

• The Bata Shoes building and its surrounding vegetation and setback from the Nepean Highway results in a setting where the building recedes into the landscape;

• Existing trees in the north west portion of the property and along the eastern boundary provide a well-vegetated buffer to existing residential properties to the east;

• Existing mature canopy trees provide a well-vegetated landscape boundary condition along the southern edge of the property; and

• Existing trees around the informal gravel carparks to the north of the Bata Shoes building provide a well-vegetated landscape condition between the Bata Shoes Building and Oakbank Road.



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6 THE PROPOSAL

The proposal is for the development of a supermarket building with external carpark areas, access roads and loading areas. The development is proposed to be facilitated by the introduction of an Incorporated Document into the Planning Scheme. The Incorporated Document includes the Condition of a Landscape Plan being a requirement as part of the submission that must be approved by the Responsible Authority. The Condition does not stipulate requirements for landscape objectives or minimum requirements for landscape or setbacks.

The proposed supermarket building would be 13.1 metres high with attached signage increasing the height of the building to 14.6 metres high in parts.

A new vehicular entrance/exit point, with an associated new breakdown turning lane, is proposed for the Nepean Highway frontage of the development. Additional access roads (one for trucks and the other for cars) are also proposed from Oakbank Road across either side of the existing adjacent shoe factory/outlet building. The access road for vehicles will use a new alignment than that currently accessed by Bata Court and run across the western side of the existing Bata Shoes building.

6.1 PROPOSED NEPEAN HIGHWAY FRONTAGE

The proposed landscape treatment for the Nepean Highway frontage of the development is shown below (screen capture from Architectural drawing TP-04 Rev E1).

Figure 6-1 Plan of the Proposed Development frontage to the Nepean Highway (Screen Capture from

Architect’s drawings)



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The building edge is proposed to be setback 90 metres from the property frontage, as per the requirements under the Development Plan Overlay (DP02).

“Landscape” areas have been allocated as follows:

• Garden areas across the frontage varying in width from approximately 20 metres wide to approximately 16.7 metres wide to the south. The two garden areas are divided by the proposed new entry/access road from the Nepean Highway;

• A landscape strip (of what looks to be 2 metres wide) on the southern side of the carpark area;

• A garden strip of 3 metres wide on the northern side of the proposed carpark (this proposed garden strip is shown as being outside the Planning Unit boundary);

• Garden strips of 1 metre width on either side of the proposed pedestrian path access to the Nepean Highway; and

• Other areas, as shown in Figure 6-1.

Retaining walls of approximately one metre in height are proposed for the northern interface with the adjacent shoe factory/outlet building site.

The frontage carpark and the ground level of the building are proposed to be approximately half-a-metre higher than the level of the Nepean Highway.

Large areas of the carpark area have no landscape allocation and will have no canopy trees providing shade and shelter, as shown below in Figure 6-2 and on the following page in Figure 6-3

Figure 6-2 Illustrative view looking toward the proposed building from within the proposed frontage carpark.



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Figure 6-3 Illustrative view looking toward the proposed building from within the proposed frontage carpark.

6.2 ACCESS FROM OAKBANK ROAD

There are two vehicular access points proposed from Oakbank Road. One access point would involve the realignment of the existing Bata Court and would run across the western side of the existing Bata Shoes building. This new road would be for vehicle access to the Planning Unit containing the proposed Kaufland carpark and building. The other road would be a new access road for trucks with a new entry/exit point proposed to enter the site further east along Oakbank Road and run through the site and to the eastern side of the Bata Shoes building. The proposed 7-metre-wide truck roadway is proposed to be located approximately 15 metres from the boundary of the adjoining residential areas to the east, extending 50 metres south into the site before angling further away from the eastern boundary. This is shown below in Figure 6-4.

Figure 6-4 Plan of Proposed New Access Roads from Oakbank Road (proposed trees to be removed shown in

pale red) – Screen capture of portion of architectural drawing TP-03 ACP – “Existing Conditions Plan”.



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The realignment of Bata Court is proposed to be utilised for vehicular access to the Kaufland building and carpark further to the south and is 9 metres wide. The new access road is proposed to be extended south from Oakbank Road across the western frontage of the existing Bata Shoes building and would result in the removal of existing large mature eucalypts and other vegetation. The existing large mature eucalypt trees to be removed are shown below in Figure 6-5 and Figure 6-6.

Figure 6-5 Existing large eucalypts to be removed as part of the proposed vehicular access road.

Figure 6-6 Existing large eucalypts to be removed as part of the proposed vehicular access road.



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6.3 NORTHERN BOUNDARY

The northern boundary is defined as the interface of the proposed new building and carpark with the existing shoe factory/outlet building and its surrounds. As discussed in the previous chapter, access roads are proposed to traverse the existing shoe factory/outlet building environs from Oakbank Road.

An access road is proposed between the Kaufland Building and the northern boundary of the Planning Unit area as shown below in Figure 6-7. An illustrative view of the northern boundary is also shown below in Figure 6-8.

Figure 6-7 Plan of the northern boundary (Screen Capture from Architect’s drawings)

Figure 6-8 Illustrative view of the proposed northern boundary condition (Bata Shoes buildings and indicative

trees to be retained shown to the left)



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The proposed retained condition for this northern boundary is generally referred to as “retaining wall, as required”. Based on the proposed and existing levels, I would assume a retaining wall to be located along the length of the boundary varying in height from 300mm to 1 metre high.

A garden bed is proposed along the northern boundary between the front carpark and the rear loading bay area. Further to the east along the proposed side access road, there is no landscape proposed between the road and the northern boundary of the Planning Unit area.

6.4 SOUTHERN BOUNDARY

The southern boundary of the proposed development is defined by a side access road to the building which would provide access to ground level carparking under the building. This is shown below in Figure 6-9.

Figure 6-9 Plan of the southern boundary (Screen Capture from Architect’s drawings)

A continuous linear garden bed is proposed along the southern boundary between the frontage carpark and the rear loading bay area. Based on the scale of the drawing, I believe the width of the garden bed varies from approximately 300mm wide to 800mm wide.

Like the northern boundary (discussed earlier), a retaining wall is proposed for most of the length of the boundary, and referred to as “retaining wall, as required”. Based on the proposed and existing levels, I would assume a retaining wall to be located along the length of the boundary varying in height from 500mm to 1.2 metres. In addition to the retaining wall, I assume a boundary fence would also be required. In the event of a 1.8-metre-high timber fence, the boundary condition would suggest a maximum 3-metre-high condition of proposed wall and fence. An illustration of this proposed condition is shown on the following page in Figure 6-10.



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Figure 6-10 Illustrative view of the proposed southern boundary condition.

6.5 EASTERN (REAR) BOUNDARY

The eastern extent of the proposed development is generally defined by the loading area for the supermarket building, based on the architectural drawings. This is shown below in Figure 6-11.

Figure 6-11 Plan of the rear truck Loading Area of the development (Screen Capture from Architect’s drawings)

A rectangular landscape area is proposed for the southern half of the eastern boundary in this area. Beyond the loading area and the Planning Unit area, the boundary with existing residential properties to the east varies from approximately 90 metres to 50 metres in distance.



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6.6 PROPOSED SIGNAGE

The proposed signage for the development is for two 8-metre-high pylon signs (located adjacent to the entry from the Nepean Highway and adjacent to the existing entry of Bata Court from Oakbank Road) as well as a 15-metre-high pylon sign located adjacent to the carpark on the property frontage to the Nepean Highway. The details of both signs are shown in elevation below in Figure 6-12 (screen capture from Architectural drawing TP-10 Rev ACP).

Figure 6-12 Proposed Signage of the Kaufland Development

The proposed 15-metre-high pylon sign can also be seen in comparison to the proposed building below in Figure 6-13 (screen capture from Architectural drawing TP-08 Rev ACP).

Figure 6-13 Proposed 15m high Pylon Sign in front Elevation of the proposed Kaufland Store



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An illustrative view of the proposed signage as seen from the entry from the Nepean Highway frontage is shown below in Figure 6-14.

Figure 6-14 Illustrative view of proposed Nepean Highway signage at entrance with the proposed Kaufland Store

beyond (Indicative image of large eucalypt to be retained at the south-west corner shown to right of the image)



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7 CONCLUSIONS

In my professional opinion, the design of the proposed development fails to respond to landscape related requirements and policies in the Planning Scheme and does not provide a satisfactory landscape outcome. My opinions are based on the capacity for the proposed landscape areas to provide a significant landscape contribution and assist the proposed development in meeting the requirements of the Planning Scheme. In my opinion, I don’t believe that the landscape areas can do that. The illustrative views of the digital model show a low grassed treatment and a future Landscape Concept may include trees and understorey plantings.

My conclusions as to why the proposal is an unsatisfactory outcome for the site, in regard to landscape, are as follows:

7.1 IMPACTS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF THE GREEN WEDGE ZONE AND THE STREETSCAPE OF THE

NEPEAN HIGHWAY

The proposal will impact upon the landscape experience of the Green Wedge Zone and the Nepean Highway in front of the site as one arrives at and passes through the intersection of Oakbank Road and the Nepean Highway. The combination of the proposed vehicle breakdown lane, the prominent signage, the proposed carpark as well as the 13-14 metre high supermarket building would replace what is currently an open grassed landscape and place a significant building and carpark on the site with a landscape that will not be sufficient to replace or counter this proposed new condition.

In addition, the existing large eucalypt trees and other vegetation proposed to be removed for the proposed access road across the front of the Bata Shoes building will also strip the frontage of the property of significant existing vegetation that currently assists in receding existing built form into the landscape. An illustration of the proposed view from the Oakbank Road / Nepean Highway intersection is shown below in Figure 7-1.

Figure 7-1 Illustrative view toward the proposed development from north of the Oakbank Road / Nepean

Highway intersection.



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This would result in a significant change in landscape character and experience as one crosses the Nepean Highway with portions of the development, such as the signage, visible from the Green Wedge Zone on the northern side of the Oakbank Road intersection.

Further, the experience of travelling past the subject site would be significantly changed with the open grassed areas replaced with carparking areas and the proposed building. This is at odds with the adjoining landscape character of the frontage of the existing Bata Shoes building and the open grassed areas of the secondary college on the opposite side of the highway, beyond the large cypress trees.

As one approaches the proposed development, the visual impacts of the proposed signage, the carpark and the proposed building would become more pronounced. This is shown in illustrative views of the proposed development, seen from the Nepean Highway frontage, below and on the following page in Figure 7-2, Figure 7-3, Figure 7-4, and Figure 7-5.

Figure 7-2 Illustrative view toward the proposed development from the Nepean Highway, south of the Oakbank

Road / Nepean Highway intersection.

Figure 7-3 Illustrative view toward the proposed development from the Nepean Highway, seen from the

proposed bus stop location.



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Figure 7-4 Illustrative view toward the proposed development from the Nepean Highway frontage.

Figure 7-5 Illustrative view toward the proposed development from the Nepean Highway frontage (proposed

pedestrian and vehicle access shown).

The above runs counter to landscape-related objectives of the planning scheme listed earlier in this report including:

• Requiring development to respond to its context including the surrounding landscape (Clause 12.05-2S – Significant Environments and Landscape- Landscapes);

• Ensuring that development provides landscaping that supports the amenity and attractiveness of the public realm (Clause 12.05-2S – Significant Environments and Landscape-

Landscapes);

• Ensuring development responds and contributes to the strategic context of its location (Clause 12.01-1S – Urban Design);

• Ensuring development is designed to protect and enhance valued views and vistas(Clause 12.01-1S – Urban Design);



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• Define clear and stable township boundaries which reinforce separation between Mt Eliza and Mornington (Clause 21.06 – Strategic Framework and the Peninsula’s Settlement

Pattern);

• Prevent the development of unsightly industrial areas in exposed locations (Clause

12.07-4 – Industrial Areas);

• Protecting the character of the Peninsula’s rural landscapes to prevent intrusive commercial development including signage on roads (Mornington Peninsula Localised

Planning Statement).

7.2 LEVELS AND RETAINING WALLS

The ground level and carpark areas of the development are currently proposed to be set at a level of 50.60. This is approximately 900mm lower than the adjacent shoe factory/outlet building environs and approximately 1.6 metres higher than the adjoining property to the south. This will create significant extents of retaining walls around the site. In addition, the ground level and carpark areas of the development would be approximately 600mm higher than the Nepean Highway which would exacerbate the visual exposure of the development. Based on my preliminary assessment, the overall proposed level of the building and carpark appear too high, particularly in relation to the Nepean Highway. This was illustrated previously in Figure 7-4 and Figure 7-5.


• Requiring development to respond to its context including the surrounding landscape (Clause 12.05-2S – Significant Environments and Landscape- Landscapes);

• Prevent the development of unsightly industrial areas in exposed locations (Clause

12.07-4 – Industrial Areas).

7.3 ACCESS FROM OAKBANK ROAD AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING TREES

The proposed development relies on two new access roads from Oakbank Road, one of which is the existing Bata Court road reserve while the other would be a new road for dedicated truck access to the loading bay area on the proposed development lease area to the south. The truck access road would require the removal of significant extents of existing trees through the site’s north-eastern treed area. Based on my site observations along the alignment of the road and the architectural plans, I would anticipate up to 40 mature native and exotic trees would need to be removed to construct the road and entry, in addition to numerous self-generating young trees that I observed also coming through.

In addition, the proposed truck access road’s offset of 15 metres from the boundary, for a portion of the access road, will have visual impacts on the adjacent residential properties along Hillpark Drive because of the removal of existing large trees and other vegetation, coupled with the proximity of trucks using the access road. Access and turning circles for trucks coming into and out of Oakbank Road from the access don’t appear to have been fully investigated or resolved at this stage and may also have impacts on the Oakbank Road streetscape, adjacent to the Green Wedge Zone.

The proposed new vehicular access road to the Planning Unit, which would realign Bata Court, would result in the removal of existing mature eucalypt trees and include new pylon signage at the entrance. An illustration of this proposed new entrance from Oakbank Road and the proposed pylon signage is shown on the following page in Figure 7-6.



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Figure 7-6 Illustrative view of proposed new vehicular access and signage from Oakbank Road.


• Minimise the detrimental impact of the development on neighbouring properties (Clause 15.01-2S – Building Design);

• Encourage development to retain existing vegetation and the planting of new vegetation as part of the proposal (Clause 15.01-2S – Energy and Resource Efficiency);

• Ensure that development provides and maintains appropriate buffers between residential areas and to avoid the loss of residential amenity (Clause 12.07-4 – Industrial

Areas).

7.4 INSUFFICIENT LANDSCAPE ALLOCATION TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH BOUNDARIES AND THE

REMOVAL OF EXISTING TREES

There is minimal and, in some areas, no landscape allocation along both the southern and northern boundaries of the proposed development. These boundaries are also proposed to be retained with walls ranging from 500mm to 1.4 metres in height. Coupled with little-to-no garden areas with no capacity for tree planting along these boundaries, this would, in my opinion, be a very unsatisfactory landscape outcome for the site and adjoining properties because the “landscape” in many cases would be almost entirely hardstand, with little to no vegetation. Any notions of landscape in these areas would be reliant on “borrowed” landscape from adjoining properties or from within the rest of the Bata Shoes property, outside the Planning Unit. The notion of relying on “borrowed” landscape from the Bata Shoes property is compromised by the fact that numerous large existing trees are proposed to be removed as part of the proposal. Further, the construction of a retaining wall along the southern boundary would also likely result in the removal of numerous existing trees within the neighbouring property along that boundary, further reducing any potential “borrowed” landscape to the south of the site.



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I believe that, based on the design of the current proposal, the proposed Kaufland supermarket building and its associated access roads are too wide for this lease area. The combination of the building width and the side access roads would create a condition where there are significant landscape impacts on adjoining land areas to the south and the rest of the Bata Shoes property of 1158 Nepean Highway through the removal of existing vegetation and minimal vegetation to replace it.

In addition, the proposal would involve the removal of a significant amount of the existing trees along the southern boundary (both within the subject site and the adjoining property to the south) with no capacity for their replacement with new canopy trees. This is also an unsatisfactory outcome for the site and for the adjoining property to the south due to the loss of landscape, the new boundary retaining wall and fence condition that would form the majority of the southern boundary and the visual prominence of the Kaufland building from the adjoining property. This is shown below in Figure 7-7.

Figure 7-7 Illustrative view of the proposed southern boundary condition.



• Encourage development to retain existing vegetation and the planting of new vegetation as part of the proposal (Clause 15.01-2S – Energy and Resource Efficiency).

7.5 CARPARK FRONTAGE DESIGN AND LANDSCAPE ALLOCATION

In my opinion, the carpark layout, as shown on the architectural drawings provides an unsatisfactory landscape outcome for the site, particularly when viewed from Nepean Highway. Aside from the landscape area at the front (which varies from 20 – 16 metres wide), landscape strips to the north and south sides of the carpark, and other assorted minor garden areas there is, essentially, a 90-metres by 75-metres area of carpark hardstand with no virtually no landscape or trees proposed in the majority of this carpark area.



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Large areas of the carpark have no landscape allocation and would have no canopy shade trees to provide shelter and shade. This is illustrated below in Figure 7-8 and Figure 7-9.

Figure 7-8 Illustrative view toward the proposed building from within the proposed frontage carpark.

Figure 7-9 Illustrative view toward the proposed building from within the proposed frontage carpark.

The extent of the carpark and its location toward the front of the property, as well as its elevated siting above the Nepean Highway has no other precedent within the Industrial Zone (IN3Z) and the Development Plan Overlay (DP02) along the Nepean Highway. Other developed sites have extensive setbacks of landscape with no buildings or carparks or are set-down below the level of the Nepean Highway by a number of metres.



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• Encourage development to retain existing vegetation and the planting of new vegetation as part of the proposal (Clause 15.01-2S – Energy and Resource Efficiency);

• Ensuring that development provides landscaping that supports the amenity and attractiveness of the public realm (Clause 15.01-2S – Building Design);

• Ensuring development responds and contributes to the strategic context of the location (Clause 15.01-2S – Building Design);

• Ensuring development is designed to protect and enhance valued views and vistas (Clause 15.01-2S – Building Design);

• Ground level car parking, garage doors and accessways must not visually dominate public space (Particular Provisions – Car Parking);

• Car parking within building (including visible portions of partly submerged basements) must be screened or obscured where possible, including through the use of occupied tenancies, landscaping, architectural treatments and artworks (Particular Provisions – Car Parking);

• The layout of carparking areas must provide for water sensitive urban design treatment and landscaping (Particular Provisions – Car Parking);

• Landscaping and trees must be planted to provide shade and shelter, soften the appearance of ground level parking and aid in the clear identification of pedestrian paths (Particular Provisions – Car Parking);

• Ground level car parking spaces must include trees planted with flush grilles. Spacing of trees must be determined having regard to the expected size of the selected species at maturity (Particular Provisions – Car Parking).

7.6 SIGNAGE

The proposed signage within the frontage of the development, comprising a proposed 15-metre-high pylon sign and two 8 metre pylon signs will be extremely prominent in the Nepean Highway landscape and beyond. The 15-metre-high signage will be visible from long distances away and from north of the Nepean Highway / Oakbank Road intersection in the Green Wedge Zone. This illustrated below in Figure 7-10.

Figure 7-10 Illustrative view toward the proposed development from the Nepean Highway frontage (proposed

pedestrian and vehicle access shown).



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• Ensuring development is designed to protect and enhance valued views and vistas (Clause 15.01-2S – Building Design);

• Ensuring that development, including signs, minimises detrimental impacts on amenity, on the natural and built environment and on the safety and efficiency of roads (Clause 15.01-1S – Urban Design);

• Minimising the detrimental impact of the development on neighbouring properties (Clause 15.01-2S – Building Design);

• Protecting the character of the Peninsula’s rural landscapes to prevent intrusive commercial development including signage on roads (Mornington Peninsula Localised

Planning Statement).

7.7 FAILURE TO FOLLOW DEVELOPMENT PLAN OVERLAY (DPO2) REQUIREMENTS

Finally, in my opinion, the project fails to address key requirements of the Development Plan Overlay (DPO2) including:

• Providing a minimum setback of 15 metres from side and rear boundaries;

The proposed Kaufland building is proposed to be offset from the southern boundary by approximately just 6.35 metres – almost 8.5 metres less than the requirement under the overlay requirements. In addition to this, the proposed access road along that edge of the building runs almost up to the boundary with a very narrow strip of proposed garden. Coupled with the removal of existing trees (on both the proposed developed lease property and the adjoining property to the south), as well as the proposed retaining wall and fence that would be required on the boundary, this is an extremely unacceptable response from a landscape outcome.

• 50% of the site to be set aside for landscaping.

If considering just the proposed leased portion of the overall property of 1158 Nepean Highway that is proposed to be developed for the Kaufland Store and carpark, the area of that part of the site that is set aside for landscaping would be approximately only 10-15%. Coupled with the removal of mature trees, the proposed large expanse of carparking and minimal landscape allocated to the north, south and east boundaries, this is also an extremely unacceptable response from a landscape outcome.

In summary, I support Council in their opposition to the development and believe it an unsatisfactory landscape outcome for the site and its surrounds.

7.8 DECLARATION

I have made all the inquiries that I believe are desirable and appropriate and that no matters of significance, which I regard as relevant, have to my knowledge been withheld from the Planning Panel

Annex A

Brendan Papworth – Curriculum Vitae

W W W. PA P W O R T H DAV I E S . C O M . AUPAPWORTH DAVIES

Curriculum Vitae

BRENDAN PAPWORTH

DIRECTOR | LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT AILA

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (RMIT 1994)

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (part) (University of Osaka 1992-93)

Bachelor of Applied Science in Cartography (part) (RMIT 1986)

Life Member, St.Kilda Cricket Club

INTRODUCTION:

Brendan studied Landscape Architecture in Australia and Japan and has also worked professionally in both countries. He draws on over 25 years’ experience working in design studios in Melbourne and on projects throughout Australia and overseas. Brendan is a founding Director of Papworth Davies Pty Ltd.

Prior to starting his own practice, he had previously worked for large international-based multi-disciplinary corporate studios as well as smaller boutique landscape architecture studios.

Brendan’s experience covers the full range of project types that Landscape Architects contribute to society – from personal private residential projects to iconic corporate and commercial buildings to strategic landscape planning of open space and waterways to city and town streetscapes to campus planning and design to parks and recreation planning and design.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

+ Landscape Architecture

+ Landscape Planning

+ Masterplanning

+ Urban Design

+ Waterway Planning

+ Landscape & Visual Impact Assessment

+ Rooftop / Vertical Gardens

+ VCAT Expert Witness Evidence

+ Waterplay Facilities and Aquatic Centres

+ Medium Density Development

+ Private Residential Gardens

+ Campus Master Planning

+ Parkland Design and Development

+ Design Advisory Services

+ New Residential Subdivision Streetscape and Open Space

+ Project Management

+ Community / Stakeholder Consultation

AWARDS:

+ Kororoit Creek Regional Strategy 2005-2020 (with Land Design Partnership): Merit Award in Planning at the 2007 AILA Victorian Awards;

+ Greening Footscray Strategy (with Land Design Partnership);

+ Merit Award in Planning at the 2007 AILA Victorian Awards.

PREVIOUS ROLES:

Director/Owner, Papworth Design (2012-2014)

Principal Landscape Architec, ERM (2008-2012)

Associate Landscape Architect, EDAW / AECOM (2006-2008)

Senior Landscape Architect, Land Design Partnership (2001-2006)

Senior Landscape Architect, Context Conybeare Morrison (1999-2001)

Landscape Architect, Chris Dance Land Design (1994-1999)

Student Landscape Architect, Keikan Sekkai, Osaka, Japan (1992-1993)

W W W. PA P W O R T H DAV I E S . C O M . AUPAPWORTH DAVIES

INFRASTRUCTURE & ASSESSMENT EXPERIENCE:

+ OneSteel Recycling Centre - Brooklyn; + Victorian Desalination Plan LVIA; + Torquay Urban Design Framework; + Deveny Road Duplication, Epping; + Somerton Retarding Basin; + Penshurts Windfarm LVIA; + Rivervue Village, Wetlands;

RETIREMENT VILLAGE:

+ “Rivervue” Retirement Village, Avondale Heights; + “The Mornington” Retirement Village, Mornington (New

frontage and New Clubhouse); + Aged Care Development, Delahey;

EDUCATION:

+ Primary School, Elwood; + New Quadrangle, Parade College, Preston; + New Quadrangle, Parade College, Bundoora; + New Callan Wing, Parade College, Bundoora; + Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Centre, Braemar College,

Woodend; + Braemar College Master Plan, Woodend; + Thomas Cherry Forecourt, La Trobe University,

Bundoora; + St.Columba’s Primary Masterplan; + St.Bernard’s College Masterplan; + St.Bernard’s College Chapel Forecourt & Admin bldng;

MASTERPLANNING EXPERIENCE:

+ Warburton Recreation Reserve Feasibility Study; + Proposed Upgrade Improvements – Hoppers Crossing

Shopping Centre; + Daylesford Streetscape Strategy; + Union Precinct Master Plan, Melbourne University; + Evan Burge Library, Trinity College, Melbourne

University; + Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne; + Apollo Bay Harbour Master Plan; + Lorne Foreshore Plan, Lorne, Victoria. + New Caravan Park Masterplan, Torquay. + Taylors Creek Masterplan, City of Brimbank; + Flooding Creek Master Plan, Sale; + Greening Footscray Strategy; + Puffing Billy Rail Trail Feasibility Study; + Brimbank Open Space and Playground Strategy, City of

Brimbank; + 21st Century Garden, Geelong Botanic Gardens;

VCAT EXPERIENCE:

+ Medium-Density Residential Development, Essendon; + Marvella Development Panel Hearing, Ballarat; + Medium-density Residential Development, Windsor; + Private Residence – Port Fairy; + Doon Court, Briar Hill; + Harrison Street, Mitcham; + Cleanaway Landfill, Clarinda, VCAT objection; + Francesca Street, Mont Albert North; + Train Street Highett; + Waterdale Rd, Ivanhoe; + Mt.Duneed Service Station; + Sargood Street, Altona.

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

+ Foreshore Playground – Seaspray; + Masterplanning – Sand, Gravel and Rock Quarry,

Sunbury; + Pier Road Improvements, St.Kilda; + Mixed-use Development, Mernda; + BMW Dealership and Showroom Courtyard, Springvale

Road, Mulgrave; + Highway Logic Centre, Murray Valley Highway,

Barnawartha North; + Mixed-use Development, Carlton North; + Private Residence, Carlisle Street, Thornbury; + Mixed-use Development, Muswellbrook, NSW; + “Applewood” Retirement Village, Doncaster; + East Burwood Plaza Shopping Centre; + Mixed-use Development, Ringwood, NSW; + Platinum Residential Tower – Vertical Garden and

Streetscape, Southbank; + Green Roof, Private Residence, Glanfield Street,

Northcote; + Serviced Apartments and Retail Development, Nowra,

NSW; + Private Residence, Glyndon Avenue, Brighton; + Mixed-use Development, Bathurst, NSW; + Portland Marina; + Mixed-use Development, Armidale, NSW; + Rosanna Supermarket; + Mixed-use Development, Plenty Road, Preston; + Newcastle Museum Conversion. + Lilydale Nursing Home Redevelopment, Lilydale; + New Bendigo Hospital Development; + Medium-Density Residential Development, Banksia

Street, Eaglemont; + Seville Water Play Facility, Seville; + MoVida Aqui Rooftop Garden, Melbourne; + Qatar National Bank, Doha, Qatar;

Curriculum Vitae

Documents

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