# Climate Resilience 3.1c - Urban heat - Material surfaces - Streetscape paving & 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 to medium coloured materials (such as cream, beige, white, light grey concrete, sandstone tones, or terracotta) are used for all footpaths and streetscape surfaces (excluding carriageways) to support urban cooling.
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
# Streetscape Masterplan
- Annotation or legend on plan - materials used for paths including Solar Reflective Index (SRI)