Better Placed: Better Look and Feel

Future Transport: Customer Focused

Better design of our streets can enhance visual interest for all users, contributing to their enjoyment, comfort, and sense of safety, social connection, and wellbeing. As well as providing buffers from fast-moving vehicles, a well-designed street can provide a visual and tactile environment that feels connected to nature, engages all the senses, provides opportunities to linger, socialise, or rest, and reveals layers of history and a deeper understanding of the place. Public lighting is an important contributor to a safe, secure and attractive visual environment.

Engaging with local councils, local communities including Traditional Custodians, and urban and landscape designers to work on these issues has the potential to deliver a range of place benefits that are specific to their context and local aspirations for that place.

Key questions

1. Has the comfort and visual interest of all users of the streets been considered and catered for? Are all visual impacts understood?
2. Has the connection to Country be understood and expressed through the planning and design process?

Performance indicators

	Character and Form Street enclosure Building height Building density Legibility Culture and heritage Land division (grain)
	Amenity and Use Public space Places to stop and rest
	Green and Blue Tree canopy Biodiversity Waterways