Pymble Business Park - Ku-ring-gai Council

9.8 AWNINGS AND COLONNADES
Objectives
1 To ensure that awnings
and colonnades are in
keeping with desired
streetscape character
and with the overall
development in scale and
overall design.
2 To provide awnings and
colonnades that increase
pedestrian amenity with
sun and rain protection.
3 To create well lit, visible
street frontages that deter
vandalism.
Controls
1 Where an awning is provided, under awning lighting is to be
recessed into the soffit of the awning or wall mounted on the
building.
2 Under awning lighting must achieve luminance levels consistent
with community safety and security in AS1228.1- 2001. The lighting
must be high energy efficiency with LED diode technology preferred
unless an alternate technology with equivalent or higher energy
efficiency is used.
3 All colonnade spaces must be within the property boundary.
4 The size and spacing of supports must be designed to allow
pedestrian circulation and views of ground floor activity from the
street.
5 On sloping sites a level access point is to be provided between
colonnade area and adjoining footpaths.
Figure 9.8-1:
Building form used as
colonnade.
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Figure 9.8-2:
Building form used as awning.
Draft Ku-ring-gai Pymble Business Park Development Control Plan 2012