Resources

A list of information sources and references used or cited in the Urban Design Guidelines for Victoria.

Note: These references and links are provided for further information. If you find a link is broken please email: planning.web@delwp.vic.gov.au and include in the subject line: 'Urban Design Guideline web link broken' and copy the broken link into the email text.

Department of Environment Land Water and Planning

Urban Design and Planning

Urban Design Guidelines for Victoria and other urban design information

www.planning.vic.gov.au and follow the links to Urban Design Guidelines for Victoria

Victoria Planning Toolkit

www.planning.vic.gov.au and follow the links to find:

Victoria Planning Practice and Advisory Notes: main page
Victoria Planning Codes and Guidelines: main page
A Code of Practice for Telecommunications Facilities in Victoria, July 2004
Ruby Town Structure Plan – a model, 2010
Ruby Town Structure Plan Background Report outline, 2010

Local government guidance

http://www.localgovernment.vic.gov.au/ and follow the links to Infrastructure, land and asset management to find

A Guide to Governing Shared Community Facilities, 2010
A Guide to Delivering Community Precincts, 2010

Transport design guidance

www.economicdevelopment.vic.gov.au

and follow the links to Transport and infrastructure, to find:

Public Transport Guidelines for Land Use and Development, 2008
Passenger Rail Infrastructure Noise Policy, 2013
You are here: a guide to developing pedestrian wayfinding.
Providing bicycle facilities as part of transport projects, 2010
Bicycle Parking: providing bicycle parking facilities, 2000
The Bicycle Parking Handbook, Bicycle Victoria, 2004

Department of Health and Human Services

Design for Everyone: A Guide to Sport and Recreation Settings

http://sport.vic.gov.au/design-for-everyone-guide

Victorian Planning Authority

Precinct Structure Planning Guidelines

www.vpa.vic.gov.au and follow the links to 'Precinct Structure Planning Guidelines'

Heritage Victoria

Provides a range of information, technical guides and leaflets on all aspects of caring for heritage places and objects

www.heritage.vic.gov.au

Public Transport Victoria

Victorian Rail Industry Operators Group (VRIOG) Standards

Client Design Requirements for Accessible Tram Stops, 2010 To request any documentation relating to this, please contact dms@ptv.vic.gov.au

VicTrack

VicTrack Rail Maintenance Guidelines, 2012

https://www.victrack.com.au/-/media/victrack/documents/resources/rail- maintenance-guidelines.pdf

VicRoads

www.vicroads.vic.gov.au and follow the links to Technical Documents Search for

VicRoads Design Standards, manuals, notes
VicRoads Supplements to Austroads Guides
Guidelines for public transport
VicRoads Traffic Engineering Manual: Volume 1
Cycle Notes and Extended Guidelines
SmartRoads Connecting Communities, July 2011
Transport planning handbook: A guide to integrated transport planning in growth areas, 2013

Austroads Guide to Roads Design

www.austroads.com.au and follow the links

Austroads 'Guide to Road Design' publications may be purchased from Austroads.

Smartroads Tool link can be found at www.austroads.com.au/road- operations/network-operations

Community Crime Prevention Victoria

Guide to Developing CCTV for Public Safety in Victoria

www.crimeprevention.vic.gov.au

Australian Standards

For technical guidance on structures adjacent to rail corridors, car parking and accessways, and mailbox design refer to Standards Australia

www.standards.org.au/Pages/default.aspx

AS 5100 Bridge Design

Parking

AS 2890 Parking Facilities
AS/NZS 2890.1 Parking Facilities. Part 1: Off-street Car Parking
AS 2890.2 Parking Facilities. Part 2: Off-street Commercial Vehicle Facilities
AS 2890.3 Parking Facilities. Part 3: Bicycle Parking Facilities
AS 2890.5 Parking facilities—On-street parking
AS/NZS 2890.6 Parking Facilities. Off-street parking for people with disabilities

Mailboxes

AS/NZS 4253:1994 Mailboxes

Australia Post

Street posting box policy auspost.com.au/media/documents/street-posting-box-policy.pdf Protecting your mail

auspost.com.au/media/documents/letterbox-security-specification.pdf

Telstra

Telstra payphones services

https://www.telstra.com.au/consumer-advice/customer-service/universal-service-obligation

EPA Victoria

Guidelines for environmental management: Code of practice – onsite wastewater management, 2016

Maintaining water sensitive urban design elements, 2008 Go to www.epa.vic.gov.au and search for title.

Commonwealth Government

Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport 2002

www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2011C00213/Html/Text#_Toc291754850

The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 seeks to eliminate discrimination, 'as far as possible', against people with disabilities. Public transport is a service covered by the Disability Discrimination Act.

The purpose of these Standards is to enable public transport operators and providers to remove discrimination from public transport services.

Australian Building Codes Board

National Construction Code

The NCC is an initiative of the Council of Australian Governments developed to incorporate all on-site building and plumbing requirements into a single code.

The NCC is a performance based code containing all Performance Requirements for the construction of buildings