On this page:
- Designing and Constructing Your Home
- Sustainable Development Fact Sheets
- Eco-Friendly Advice for DIY Projects
- Sustainable Mount Barker
Designing and Constructing Your Home
Council has developed a booklet to help you consider sustainability issues in relation to your existing home or your future home, because perhaps now more than ever, there is a need to ensure that we live more sustainably and reduce our ecological footprint.
Read through the booklet (below) to get tips on how to reduce your impact on the environment when building a new home, during renovations or just in everyday living, or visit the Council office for a copy.
Sustainable Development Fact Sheets
Council, in partnership with the SA Murray Darling Basin NRM Board, wishes to provide greater clarity and direction for developers designing and developing housing subdivisions in the District. It wishes to encourage development that more adequately considers environmental impact and sustainability principles.
To help achieve this, Council has produced a series of ‘Sustainable Residential Subdivision Design Fact Sheets’ that assist in ‘interpreting’ the Development Plan’s environmental policies and enable Council to further explain and express its desire for more sustainable urban development in the District. The Sustainability Fact sheets provide guidance to developers at the concept plan design stage and emphasise the Council’s requirements in achieving sustainable development. Information contained within the fact sheets provides greater clarity at the early stages of the development assessment process. Adhering to the principles contained within the fact sheets will reduce the need to enter into unnecessary and sometimes protracted negotiations. The fact sheets provide a ‘user friendly’ interface to more sustainable development in the Mount Barker District.
Follow the links below to view the 5 fact sheets that address key sustainability principles that relate to environmental performance issues as contained within the Mount Barker (DC) Development Plan. Information contained within these fact sheets should be considered and discussed with the relevant council officer prior to and during the development asssessment process.
For more information contact Mr Greg Sarre on 8391 7257 or email firstname.lastname@example.org
Eco-Friendly Advice for DIY Projects
If you like your street and home to be tidy, healthy and safe, then spare a thought for our native plants, fish and animals ... because they do too!
Many of the materials that we use in DIY building and home improvements may look harmless, but they have the potential to pollute or spoil your local environment if they are not used and disposed of correctly. Remember, stormwater is NOT treated, so anything that is washed or blown onto your street will end up in your local creek, river, lake or beach with potentially harmful results.
Don’t get caught doing the wrong thing, because it’s very easy to do the right thing.
> Eco-Friendly DIY Advice Fact Sheet (produced by Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board)
Sustainable Mount Barker
With growth continuing apace in Mount Barker, ensuring development is sustainable is one of Council’s greatest challenges. Various resources have been developed to inform more sustainable development in our District.
To see how to practice sustainable development at your property or neighbourhood check out the Living Sustainably virtual community or sign up and make a pledge at Sustainable Mount Barker.