Rural Zone

At least 60% of the total areas of windows (this includes glass doors and sky lights) on each elevation need to be twice as high as they are wide. This can be measured around the window frames or the glass panes.

Excludes:

• detached accessory buildings.

A minimum roof pitch of 25 degrees over at least 80% of the roof area.

Unless:

• You're designing an accessory building. The minimum roof pitch is 20 degrees.

At least 70% of the exterior building must be clad in the following materials. This means up to 30% of the building exterior can be clad in materials other than those listed below.

Natural unpainted timber

It's all in the name. You can have any timber you like as long as it is not painted. Use of stains and protectants are allowed to protect the wood (they must not change the natural colour of the timber).

Weatherboards

Need to have either a bevel back or shiplap profile.

Boulders or large stones

These should be of the same type or mimic the type of stone found within the local area.

Cob (adobe blocks or rammed earth)

Board and batten

Timber battens fixed over plywood or cement board sheets, provided the battens are:

• Laid vertically; and
• Placed at a maximum of 400 centres.

Panel materials

These can be used provided the panels are:

• Timber or fibre cement construction; and
• Hung vertically with visible grooves a maximum of 420 mm apart.

Metal cladding products

These can be used on accessory buildings only if the following are met:

• The building is a garage or accessory building located behind the dwelling or principal building; and
• The metal cladding product mimics the requirements of either the weatherboard or board batten claddings outlined above.

All roofs must be coloured in the range of:

• Browns, greens or greys with light reflectance values between 5 and 20% (inclusive);
• Steel blue with light reflectance values of 15% or less; or
• Dark red with light reflectance values of 10% or less, except in the Old Town area where 15% or less.

All cladding must be coloured in the range of:

• Browns, greens or greys with a light reflectance value of between 10 and 35% (inclusive).

Trim and fences (except in the Old Town design area) must be in meet either the roof or cladding colour requirements.

Note: where an exterior colour cannot be measured by way of light reflectance value a producer statement is required to demonstrate the material is suitably recessive and will have the same effect as achieving the light reflectance value required in Rule 4.6.19(e)(ii).

If your property adjoins State Highway 7A then any building (except a dwelling) with a footprint greater than 100 square metres shall be setback 150 metres from the road boundary.

All exterior lighting shall be:

• Fully shielded with no light spill being permitted above the horizontal plane; and
• Equal to or less than 3000K correlated colour temperature.

Where an existing building does not comply with one or more of the design standards, alterations and extensions are exempt from complying with the relevant standards provided the alteration and/or extension is the same or similar to the existing design feature of the building.

i.e. where an elevation is finished in a colour not permitted by the design standards then an extension to this elevation can be finished in the same colour as the existing elevation even through the colour is not permitted by the design standards.

This does not apply where the use of a building is changing to a residential use.

• The maximum floor area of any building shall be 500 square metre gross floor area (excluding farm accessory buildings).
• No dwelling unit or principal building shall be erected between the road boundary and the 50 and 100 metre building line restriction, as shown on Appendix 3.2.

If an accessory building is used in association with primary production activities and is located more than 30 metres away from a dwelling or principal building the only applicable design standards are exterior colour and the building setback requirement.