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Issue
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Objective
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Guidelines
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Environmental Impact
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Locate industry to ensure minimal negative impacts on surroundings
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- Minimise negative visual impact by provision of landscape buffer
- Maintain breezeways
- Respect land uses in neighbouring zones by provision of buffers
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Vehicular Circulation
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Create an efficient layout for internal circulation and project a positive image of the industrial area
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- Provide good connection to road infrastructure
- Create a grand entrance for projecting a positive image
- Provide separate access for delivery and management
- Avoid through traffic in planning road alignments
- Provide landscape fingers to surrounding roads
- Provide an efficient layout for emergency vehicle access
- Provide easily accessible public transport
- Provide adequate parking
- Discourage on-street parking
- Incorporate a central car park as focal point of an industrial area
- Use screen planting to hide the parking area
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Pedestrian Circulation
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Provide safe and efficient pedestrian networks to and through the industrial development
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- Separate vehicle and pedestrian movements
- Provide convenient public transport facilities and supporting facilities at the most accessible location
- Incorporate traffic calming measures
- Provide access for the disabled
- Provide adequate pavement width
- Consider incorporating podium circulation routes for pedestrians
- Create vitality in the streetscape
- Provide adequate open space
- Provide open space as development focus
- Create secondary landscape landmarks
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Open Space
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Maximise available and usable open space for workforce
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- Provide accessible and attractive open space
- Provided linkages between open space
- Incorporate open space with pedestrian network
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Important notices