Reasonable access to sunlight is important to residents for both residential amenity (including quality of life) and energy efficiency (particularly in minimising heating costs in the cooler months). Heating costs form a large proportion of overall energy costs in Canberra which has a colder winter than other mainland capitals.
WVCC has made a submission on the proposed variation to the draft Territory Plan 346 – [pdf-embedder url=”https://williamsonau.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/WVCCSubDV346Final4April.pdf”].