FAQs

Your development application is currently assessed by the following documentation:

1. Appendix 6: The Brookman and Moir Design Guidelines
2. The City's Built Form Policy
3. State Planning Policy 7.3 Residential Design Codes
4. LPP 7.6.1 Heritage Management - Development Guidelines for Heritage and Adjacent Properties

The application is also referred to the Heritage Council of WA and the heritage professionals on the City's Design Review Panel. They then assess it against the City's policies as well as State Planning Policy 3.5 Historic Heritage Conservation and the Burra Charter.

The Built Form Policy and the R-Codes use prescriptive criteria when assessing applications, such as how close a wall can be to a boundary and the level of overshadowing. Both the Design Guidelines and LPP 7.6.1 are performance based documents which aim to assess the impact that a development will have on the heritage significance of a heritage property.

The proposed Local Planning Policy for the Brookman and Moir Street Heritage Area will replace the existing design guidelines and provide additional prescriptive criteria which is unique to the precinct. This includes new clauses relating to demolition, conservation, street setbacks, car parking and the visual appearance of second storey additions. 

Aside from the Local Planning Scheme, local planning policies are a common way that local governments can create specific town planning rules. Local Planning Polices can cover a broad range of matters and could relate to areas concerning the entire City of Vincent, or more specific zones and precincts. Vincent has a number of local planning policies which deal with a wide variety of matters, they can be viewed on the Planning Forms, Checklists, Policies & Information Sheets page of the website: https://www.vincent.wa.gov.au/develop-build/planning/legislation-checklists-information-sheets.aspx 

The Design Guidelines were last reviewed in August 2012. The purpose of this review is to align the policy with the Planning and Development (Local Planning Schemes) Regulations 2015, the Guidelines for Heritage Areas and to reform the provisions to correspond to formatting of the R-Codes.

The draft Local Planning Policy only relates to development and conservation works which take place on private property, on land zoned under the City of Vincent's planning scheme. This means the policy does not apply to areas within the 'public realm' such as roads, street furniture, lighting footpaths and street trees.

The State Register of Heritage Places is a statutory list of places that represent the story of Western Australia’s history and development. Places included in the State Register include buildings, structures, gardens, cemeteries, memorials, landscapes and archaeological sites.

Entry in the Register is reserved for places of state cultural heritage significance and is the highest recognition afforded at the state level. Heritage places are entered in the State Register after an assessment and registration process which includes extensive consultation with owners, local governments and other stakeholders.

This policy is designed to be read in conjunction with the R-Codes and the Built Form Policy. Where inconsistencies occur between this policy and other planning documents, the policy prevails.