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Interim Design Guidelines for Large Format Retail Premises

These interim guidelines were released in 2007 and provide advice to developers, designers and planners on what constitutes best-practice in developing vibrant, high quality large format retail centres. These Guidelines have been prepared to assist council’s, designers and developers to achieve well located and designed new large format retail premises in or on the edge of activity centres, when creating new activity centres with a large format retail component and any new trade supplies premises. In the case of development in activity centres, also see the Activity Centre Design Guidelines. The guidelines are structured under 4 elements of design consideration: Urban Context Equitable Access Public Amenity Environmental Sustainability Under each element is a series of design objectives. Each objective has a corresponding set of related design suggestions to achieve a good design response. The Guidelines are interim only, and are not referred to in Planning Schemes. These Guidelines provide advice on how large retail premises can be laid out in an attractive manner and designed to be active places where people can move about safely. Interim Design Guidelines for Large Format Retail Premises Large Format Retail Premises, intro and element1 (PDF - 1.2 MB) Large Format Retail Premises, elements 2 to 4 (PDF - 1.3 MB) Further information on Activity Centres and Central Activities Districts. Please note: Document(s) on this page are presented in PDF format. If you do not have the Adobe Reader, you can download a copy free from the Adobe web site.