Not exactly sure what you mean by flat/unit development?
I don't think they let you build unit blocks anymore these days?
Anyway, PAE has the following requirements, although they can be flexibile if your plans are good.
- 300m2 land for detached dwellings
- fronatage requirement of generally 9m for detached, but I'm seeing them approve stuff with as little as 7.8-8m at the moment.
- 12.5m frontage for DBL GGE block, although when I talked to their planner a few months back, he said this isn't the actual reuirement. The garaging (for single and dble) just can't be anymore than 50% of the frontage. I guess this is why there are letting the smaller single dwellings in.
- If your looking at putting in community title dwellings etg. 3 front to back, I think they can relax some of the land size requirements as long as the project is still 'workable'.
- Set backs from the street on undeveloped land is 3.5m, however if you have neighbouring buildings, the rule changes to a stupid touchy feely definition of 'the set back must be in keeping with the street' eg. if you are between a 5 & 7 meter frontage, they'll let you do 6. Or if the neighbours are at 11m, they'll make you stay at 11m!! Morons...
Probably forgotten a whole bunch of stuff, so fire off any follow up questions you have.
