Wyndham City Council implments the Sustainable Design Assessment in the Planning Process (SDAPP) Framework to ensure positive sustainable design outcomes are achieved for all new developments.

The SDAPP framework includes 10 sustainable design categories which consider a broad range of design issues.

To assist you on how to consider these categories and achieve the best outcome for your building, council has adopted a series of SDAPP fact sheets.

The fact sheets provide background information, design guidance and best practice standards across the 10 key categories relevant to your development

Indoor environment quality

Objectives

  • To achieve a healthy indoor environment quality for the wellbeing of building occupants, including the provision of fresh air intake, cross ventilation and natural daylight
  • To achieve thermal comfort levels with minimised need for mechanical heating, ventilation and cooling
  • To reduce indoor air pollutants by encouraging use of materials with low toxic chemicals
  • To reduce reliance on mechanical heating, ventilation, cooling and lighting systems
  • To minimise noise levels and noise transfer within and between buildings and associated external areas

Wyndham Council expectations

  • Adequate daylight to all living areas and bedrooms (as defined in BESS)
  • Openable windows in all habitable rooms
  • Cooling loads to not exceed 30MJ/sqm for any dwelling
  • Appropriate shading to all windows receiving direct sunlight

Factsheet: 01 Indoor Environment Quality
Factsheet: 01-1 Daylight
Factsheet: 01-2 Natural Ventilation

Energy performance

Objectives

  • To improve the efficient use of energy, by ensuring development demonstrates design potential for ESD initiatives at the planning stage
  • To reduce total operating greenhouse gas emissions
  • To reduce energy peak demand through particular design measures (e.g. appropriate building orientation, shading, optimised glazing, space allocation for solar panel and external heating and cooling systems

Wyndham Council expectations

  • Minimum 50% score in BESS Energy category
  • Cooling loads to not exceed 30MJ/sqm for any dwelling
  • External natural clothes drying facilities where possible

Factsheet: 02 Energy Efficiency
Factsheet: 02-1 Sunshading
Factsheet: 02-2 Building Envelope Performance
Factsheet: 02-3 Zero Carbon

Water resources

Objectives

  • To improve water efficiency
  • To reduce total operating potable water use
  • To encourage the collection and reuse of stormwater
  • To encourage the appropriate use of alternative water sources (e.g. greywater)

Wyndham Council expectations

  • Rainwater capture and reuse for toilet flushing at a minimum
  • Minimum 50% score in BESS Water Category

Factsheet: 03 Water Efficiency

Stormwater management

Policy objectives

  • To reduce the impact of stormwater run-off
  • To improve the water quality of stormwater run-off
  • To achieve best practice stormwater quality outcomes
  • To incorporate the use of water sensitive urban design, including stormwater re-use

Wyndham Council expectations

  • 100% STORM score or MUSIC modelling demonstrating best practice stormwater management

Factsheet: 04 Stormwater Management
Factsheet: 04-1 Site Permeability

Construction and building management

Objectives

The overarching objective is that development should achieve best practice in environmentally sustainable development from the design stage through to construction and operation

Factsheet: 10 Construction & Building Management

Transport

Objectives

  • To ensure that the built environment is designed to promote the use of walking, cycling and public transport, in that order
  • To minimise car dependency
  • To promote the use of low emissions vehicle technologies and supporting infrastructure

Wyndham Council expectations

  • Bicycle parking - 1 per dwelling

Factsheet: 06 Transport
Factsheet: 06-1 Electric Vehicles

Waste management

Objectives

  • To promote waste avoidance, reuse and recycling during the design, construction and operation stages of development
  • To ensure durability of long term reusability of building materials
  • To ensure sufficient space is allocated for future change in waste management needs, including (where possible) composting and green waste facilities.

Wyndham Council expectations

  • Recycling facilities are at least as convenient to future occupants as general waste facilities.

Factsheet: 07 Waste Management

Urban ecology

Objectives

  • To protect and enhance biodiversity within the municipality
  • To provide environmentally sustainable landscapes and natural habitats, and minimise the urban heat island effect
  • To encourage the retention of significant trees
  • To encourage the planting and indigenous vegetation
  • To encourage the provision of space for productive gardens, particularly in larger residential developments.

Factsheet: 08 Urban Ecology
Factsheet: 08-1 Green Roof Wall Facade

Innovation and Melbourne’s Climate

Objectives:  To encourage innovative technology into the design of the development that will deliver enhanced environmental and social benefits to the community.

Factsheet: 09 Innovation
Factsheet: 09-1 Melb Climate

Building Materials

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