Step 4 - Preparing Documents for Development Application to Council

With the design details confirmed, the architect’s next step in the Mosman Green project was to begin preparing the documents for the development approval by the local Council.

In Step 3 the architect, Stephen Petrie, obtained the most updated list of submission requirements from Mosman Council’s website. He found, for the Mosman Green project, Archicentre was required to lodge the following documents and plans to Council:-

• Site Analysis: A plan of the site prepared by the architect that shows the key site features that the designer takes into consideration when creating their design. Amongst many other things, it shows site’s negative and positive features such as access to views, wind, orientation, aspect, surrounding buildings, etc.
  
• Detailed Survey Plan: Prepared by a registered surveyor, the survey plan is a technical drawing showing the site in detail, including the exact position of the existing building, set backs, boundaries, adjoining buildings, trees, tree heights, land levels, contours, etc.
  
• Site Plan: The site plan is another technical drawing that shows the location and size of the proposed structure/s, site dimensions and all elements related to building.
  
• Floor Plans: Existing and proposed floor layouts, including roof plan, prepared by the architect.
  
• Elevations and Sections: These plans have to show the elevations depicting all architectural features including a streetscape elevation, boundary fencing, all levels, sections and the proposed exterior building materials.
  
• Landscape Plan: Required when site disturbance exceeds 50m2, the landscape plan for the Mosman Green project was prepared by the Landscape Architect. Included within this plan, were details of the proposed species, ground surfaces, ground levels and retaining walls.
  
• Shadow Diagrams: Prepared by the architect, the shadow diagrams were required to be included for buildings two or more storeys high. They had to show existing and proposed overshadowing for 9am, 12 noon and 3pm on June 21. They also had to show diagrams for any overshadowing affecting north facing living rooms in adjoining properties.
  
• Drainage Plan: A plan showing the location of new stormwater lines and site detention tanks if required, prepared by the architect.
  
• Erosion and Sediment Control Plan: Again prepared by the architect, this plan shows the sediment and erosion control measures where earthworks are involved.
  
• Architectural Model: An architectural model of the proposed development is required for developments valued at over $400,000
  
• Waste Management Plan: A plan of action outlining the ways waste such as demolished material, excavated materials, household garbage and garden waste will be managed, recycled and reused. Prepared by the architect.
  
• Statement of Environmental Effects (SEE): Prepared by the architect, the SEE is a written explanation of the proposed development application, outlining (amongst other things) its proposed use, an analysis of how the proposal responds to the site analysis and the desired future character, as well as demonstration of how the proposal satisfies the required planning controls.
  
• Arborist Report: Mosman Council requires an arborist report be prepared where trees are to be removed, where works are within 5m of the trunk or where works are proposed below the canopy spread.

Once the architect had compiled all of this information, together with the completed the Development Application form, he then lodged it at the Council on Tuesday 21st July to enter the Development Approval Process.

To find out more about Mosman Council’s Development Application requirements visit www.mosman.nsw.gov.au or to find out the contact details for the Council in the area you live in visit www.dlg.nsw.gov.au .