Pillar: Planning
Lead directorate: EPSDD
Overview
The Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate (EPSDD) has created a 3D planning tool with help from Australian company, Urban Circus Pty Ltd.
Benefits
Using this tool, planners and designers can experiment and explore the impacts and opportunities of planning decisions including building heights, setbacks and plot ratios, and to gain a first-person perspective of how proposed developments will transform the streetscape and the city. Known as 3D Canberra, the digital model allows for ‘on-the-fly’ 3D testing and visualisation of different planning and development scenarios; for example, how buildings fit into the streetscape, how the shadows change throughout the day, and how proposals integrate into the wider environment.
The 3D Canberra planning tool is based on 3D laser scanning technology (LiDAR) that measures distance by illuminating a target with a laser light. The 3D Canberra planning tool is regularly used by government for the assessment of large-scale developments, in discussions for the National Capital Design Review Panel, stakeholder meetings, community engagement activities, master planning projects and planning studies.
Status update
| Date | Update |
|---|---|
| March 2021 | The status of 3D Canberra is ongoing as the model is utilised for testing of urban design and the built environment and also for the review of major development across the city. Since its creation in 2016, the tool has been used by ACT Government directorates including Transport Canberra and City Services and the City Renewal Authority to support planning and design initiatives such as the National Capital Design Review Panel (NCDRP) for the review of significant development proposals, and for assessing major development applications across the city. |