Lightsview will become synonymous with contemporary, sustainable design - now is the perfect time to challenge yourself and your lifestyle.
Lightsview offers you an address where water conservation and solar orientation is maximised, and where minimising your environmental footprint is seen as a desirable outcome not a difficult imposition. Lightsview is about choice and possibilities. We’re providing the blank canvas, now’s your chance to produce a masterpiece.
We’re here to help
Lightsview has a team of dedicated specialists who will help you along the way to achieve a suitable design.
Our goal is to make designing a home as easy as possible.
Lightsview’s design reviewer, located at the sales and information centre, will meet with you or your architect throughout your design phase and provide guidance as you develop your plans.
Our display village builders have created over 39 designs that cover each allotment type, making the chance to build immediately so much easier. Alternatively, you might want to choose a block, choose a builder and design your own home. Whatever you choose we have prepared a comprehensive set of design guidelines to ensure the quality of housing styles developed at Lightsview is to a standard you would expect. The guidelines are available from the sales team and provide a straightforward explanation of the design elements you must include in your home. The following pages provide a summary of the key requirements, but an explanation of why they add value to your home (and make it a whole lot more enjoyable too!)
1. Sustainable and energy efficiency design
We’re committed to designing a sustainable community that enjoys a higher standard of environmental efficiency not seen on such a scale in Adelaide before. Minimising energy use as a household is an important personal contribution you can make to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Features
Homes will be designed with sustainability features such as correct solar orientation, integration of indoor and outdoor living areas, and effective cross ventilation.
Requirements
All homes should achieve a minimum 6 star AccuRate rating.
Benefits
Consuming less energy for heating and cooling will save you money each year.
2. Solar passive design
Features
Your home will be designed to harvest the sun’s warmth in winter and provide shade and cooling breezes throughout the home in summer. Where possible your home should be oriented along an east-west axis with the majority of windows on north facing walls.
Requirements
At least one daytime living area must be located on the northern side of your home. Windows must be protected by wide eaves, shades or awnings.
Benefits
Drastic reduction in heating and cooling costs.
3. Water conservation
Features
Lightsview is being proactive when it comes to how we use one of our most precious resources, water. With extensive parks and landscaped areas, Lightsview will collect and store all of the storm water from the suburb into an underground aquifer. This water will then be re-used to ensure community gardens and parks remain green year round without impacting on the environment.
Requirements
Every home will install water saving fittings and appliances. To ensure every home can maintain its own private garden during periods of water restriction, every home at Lightsview will incorporate into its design a grey water recycling system. This will ensure gardens big or small can also be maintained efficiently, even during the most prolonged drought.
Benefits
A green, lush and truly sustainable landscape around your home adds value as well as enjoyment to your new life at Lightsview.
4. Building design
Features
Lightsview will establish a leading example of contemporary urban design. Architectural design together with a broad range of allotment types will ensure that the character of this new suburb is fresh and highly desirable. We envisage a suburb that will challenge traditional “eastern”suburbs prestige and quality on a scale not previously seen in Adelaide. Fresh thinking about how successful communities work, and the benefits that this provides the residents, are key outcomes. Building design is a key component of this.
Building design
Requirements
Lightsview will not be characterised by rows of identical buildings, or where reproduction style homes and highly inefficient “box on box” homes can be found. We’re instigating new design criteria to encourage every allotment to be used as efficiently as possible, such as short setbacks to the front boundary to create a more active streetscape while at the same time encouraging passive surveillance over streets and parks. Our “60 – 30” rule ensures that homes must occupy no less than 60% of the site at ground level and no more than 30% at first floor level; this creates functional and visually appealing homes that our display village will be a testament to. We’re also actively encouraging the development of Mews housing at the rear of any terrace home. If you’re not familiar with Mews housing then prepare to be accustomed to an amazing value adding opportunity. Think “Fonzie Flat” – a single bedroom or studio apartment above your garage. Perfect for independent teenagers, a home for a grand parent or an investment property where the land is effectively thrown in for free!
Benefits
Good design and proportion creates visually appealing homes. Designing to use your allotment as efficiently as possible will allow you to make the most of private open space.
5. Setbacks
Features
Setback provisions have been designed to ensure an attractive streetscape character. It’s not only about individual home designs and how they provide diversity between each allotment, Lightsview will also integrate clever street and landscaping designs to create highly appealing Avenues and Boulevards. Even our clever design of rear laneways will create highly appealing “designed” spaces. How each home is sited within its own boundaries is an important factor in achieving the overall vision.
Requirements
Each allotment will have a specific development plan. This plan not only identifies the location of driveway entrances and service connections, but also identifies the maximum “footprint” your home can occupy by displaying front, side and rear setbacks. Lightsview’s design reviewer is ready to explain this detail to you and to advise how to make the best of your allotment. Every home must be constructed within 3.5m and 4.5m of the front boundary. Garages must be set back from the principle façade of the home rather than be a feature in their own right.
Benefits
Quality homes, appealing streetscapes in a new modern and fresh suburb
6. Front and side elevations
Features
All aspects of your home’s street presence will be considered, including front and side elevations.
Requirements
Requiring all homes to continue design elements from front to side elevations, and to include articulation in the design is a simple way to eliminate poor housing outcomes that diminish the overall streetscape. Lightsview encourages large open porches and balconies at the front of the home. These provide additional living spaces that can double as passive surveillance over the street and your community. Homes will require varied roof forms and pitch, articulation of facades and gables and importantly will locate garages and carports discreetly. Homes located on corner allotments will address both street frontages equally. The use of wraparound balconies and articulation must ensure that no large expanses of blank wall space are visible from the street.
Benefits
These requirements not only add visual appeal, but will add value to your investment. When surrounding homes feature the same requirements, the overall appeal of Lightsview will be assured.
7. Design palette
Features
A palette of material finishes and colours has been created for Lightsview to create a unified environment while supporting innovative and varied design.
Requirements
Roof colours
A colour palette using Colorbond® pre-finished steel, or comparable alternative, has been approved for use at Lightsview.
Balconies, porches and verandahs
Balconies and roof terrace gardens can significantly expand outdoor living areas on smaller allotments as well as providing the outdoor space requirements for above ground dwellings such as apartments and mews. All homes must provide at least one generously sized porch or portico on the main street frontage of a minimum area of 8sqm.
Roof design
As a major element of home design, roofs are a key consideration in the overall appearance of your home. Roofs should contain combinations of pitch including skillion, hip and gable elements. Singular, sections will not be approved. To aid solar efficiency, homes must feature minimum eave widths of 550mm. Roofs are to be constructed from corrugated metal or flat tiled shingle design.
Design palette
Garages, car parking and driveways
Inappropriately located parking areas have the ability to dramatically impact on the overall appearance of your home. At Lightsview, these spaces will be designed to minimise their impact on the streetscape. A minimum of 2 off-street parking spaces will be required for homes with up to 3 bedrooms, 3 off-street parking spaces will be required for homes with 4 bedrooms or more. Roller doors and heritage style panel lift doors will not be approved. Panel lift doors with long horizontal panels are required. At least one covered parking space is required for each dwelling while uncovered parking spaces must be located immediately adjacent the garage or carport. Garages and carports must be staggered in the design setback by at least 1.0m from the primary façade of the home.
Design palette
Fencing
Fencing strongly influences the overall appearance of neighbourhoods. They can help unify the streetscape and give identity to residential precincts as well as provide privacy and sense of security to residents. Lightsview has developed a constructive policy to address the size, position and construction materials for front, corner, dividing and lane fencing. The front fence must be in a form that comprises one or a combination of low masonry walls, timber and metal slats and hedging between pillars. Materials used must be consistent with the main building. Solid metal front fencing is not permitted.
Services and ancillary structures
The inappropriate location of air-conditioning compressors, satellite dishes and solar hot water systems can have a negative impact on the visual appeal of houses and the streetscape in general. A Lightsview home must be designed to consider the location of services and ancillary structures. Roof mounted plant, such as air-conditioners and hot water systems, must be screened or located in areas not normally visible from the street. Hot water service storage tanks must be located at ground level and if necessary, screened from general view.
