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20 to 22 Tryon Road, Lindfield
Item 2
DA0826/06
22 January 2007
minimum 10m setback at grade and includes a significant recess of 33m, so as to ensure an
appropriate scale, bulk and form when viewed from the public domain. The Tryon Road elevation is
the primary street frontage by design and includes the main pedestrian access to the building. The
design of this elevation and the setback respond appropriately to the surrounding built form. The
Milray Street setback varies from 10m to 17.5m. The Milray Street elevation reads as a secondary
frontage and contains a satisfactory degree of façade modulation and articulation, with balcony and
wall plane recesses and variations.
Despite not complying with the 40% limit for building footprint (excluding the basement level)
located within the 10m-12m setback area (Tryon Road 45% and Milray Street 78%), the proposal is
satisfactory with regard to the objectives of the Draft DCP setback control, relating to building form
and more specifically to building articulation, the provision of sufficient deep soil landscaping,
adequate space for the planting of large canopy trees in the setback area and streetscape impact.
The building design achieves a satisfactory level of articulation and architectural interest and
provides in excess of the required deep soil landscaping (50.5% of the site area), with adequate area
for the planting of large canopy trees. The proposal makes a positive contribution to the
streetscapes of Tryon Road and Milray Street.
Contextually, the proposed setbacks are also compatible with the Minister’s site development on the
opposite side of Tryon Road to the south of the site and with the commercial site on the opposite
side of Milray Street to the west. When viewed within this existing context and that envisaged
under the Draft LEP, to which consideration must be made under Section 79C of the EPA Act 1979,
the proposed reliance on the Draft DCP provisions is logical, consistent and acceptable on merit.
With regard to the non-complying ground floor courtyard within the Milray Street side setback
(Unit A106), it is recommended that the courtyard be deleted to increase landscaped area and
improve the streetscape appearance. (Refer Condition No. 2)
Part 4.4 Built form and articulation
The Kochia Lane elevation includes balconies with a depth of 3m. These balconies are integrated
into the building design and do not appear out of place or architecturally inappropriate on this
façade. The proposed balconies are satisfactory with regard to building design, despite not
complying with the 1.2 m maximum balcony projection control.
In general terms, the building form is sufficiently articulated and modulated over its length and
height and would make a positive contribution to the built form in the Lindfield Town Centre.
Part 4.5 Residential amenity
The proposed building has a compliant set back of 6m from the eastern boundary under both DCP
55 and the draft DCP, adjoining No. 24 Tryon Road. The proposed 5 storey building will result in a
degree of overlooking of the private open space (back yard) of the adjoining dwelling house at No.
24 Tryon Road. However, the extent of overlooking will be ameliorated by screen planting
adjacent to the eastern boundary of the site, which includes 9 large canopy trees (Sydney Red Gums
– Angophora costata) and understorey screen planting to 1.5 metres in height. Accordingly, the
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