# Climate Resilience 3.1a - Urban heat - Material surfaces - Open space pathing & paths
# Applies to
All subdivisions
# Relevant Victoria Planning Provisions
# 13.01-3S Urban heat (opens new window)
Objectives To reduce urban heat and minimise impacts of urban heat on human health and wellbeing.
Strategies include:
- Support development that contributes to cooler urban environments.
- Support cooling design responses in urban areas through the:
- Use of permeable surfaces and low heat absorbing surface materials (...)
# Summary
# Better Practice
Awarded where light-coloured paving materials (such as cream, beige, white, light grey concrete, or sandstone tones) are used to reduce heat absorption and surface temperatures.
Avoid dark-coloured materials (e.g. asphalt, slate, granite) unless at least 50% of the area is shaded between 10am–5pm from 1 November to 31 March.
# Documentation & evidence required
Plans must specify surface materials, colour classification, Solar Reflective Index (SRI) values, and identify all impervious surfaces.
# Landscape Masterplan
- Annotation or legend on plan - materials used for paths including Solar Reflective Index (SRI)