Page 4510 - Week 14 - Thursday, 9 December 1993

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(2) The Territory Plan allows for the creation of front courtyards, permitting a lessee to enclose up to half the width of his or her frontage with a wall no closer to the front boundary than half of -the normal building setback. On a corner block, this requirement applies to both street frontages but there are reduced setback dimensions in respect of street f-rontage. On a corner block up to 650 square metres in area, a courtyard wall may be as close as 1.5 metres to the longer street frontage. In addition, the existing policy allows for the planting of perimeter hedges, with a gate, that can provide the protection and privacy sought by some lessees


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