Skip to Content
  • Hi, having trouble finding what you're looking for? Would you like to live chat with customer service now?

    Webchat technical failure!
    Sorry, chat is currently unavailable.
    Live chat is available Mon-Fri 8:30am - 4:30pm.
    Your details
    Press enter to send message while in chat.

  • phone

    (08) 8416 6333

  • sms

    0429 205 943
    SMS Only

  • speedy

    Waste chatbot

  • Building & planning
  • Public Realm Design Manual
  • Main Menu
    • Search
    • UP one level
    • Popular
      • Report an issue
      • Community Engagement
      • Contact council
      • Make a payment online
      • Online services
      • Parking & Expiations
      • Which bin to put out?
      • Hard waste
      • Thebarton Community Centre
      • Development applications
      • Zoning information
      • Minutes & Agendas
      • Dog registration
      • Hamra centre library
      • Borrow from library
      • Library catalogue
    • Building & planning
      • Buying a property
      • Development assessment
      • Renovations & extensions
      • Other development advice
      • Building Permits & licenses
      • Policy planning
      • Placemaking project - Admella Lane
      • Public Realm Design Manual
      • Fact Sheets - Engineering Guidelines for Development
    • Community
      • Australia Day Awards 2020
      • Care and support
      • Children youth and families
      • Community arts
      • Community Centres
      • Community events calendar
      • Financial counselling
      • Grants, donations, rebates & sponsorships
      • Justices of the Peace
      • Lifestyle and inclusion
      • Major projects
      • Promote your community event
      • Talking Points Magazine
      • West Torrens Road Safety Group
    • Council
      • Emergencies & disasters
      • Employment and volunteering
      • Feedback, compliments and complaints
      • Local history
      • Make a payment online
      • Meetings
      • Our City
      • Rates & charges
      • Tenders, contracting & purchasing
      • Your Council
      • Information
    • Environment
      • Climate change
      • Plants & animals
      • Renewable energy
      • Water
      • Trees
      • Urban greening
    • Library
      • Hamra Centre Library
      • Activities and events
      • Digital literacy
      • Home Library Service
      • Learn english
      • Library catalogue & app
      • Library Fees & charges
      • Library News
      • Library resources & collections
      • Little Libraries locations
      • Membership & borrowing
      • Mobile Library
      • Computers and WiFi
      • Local History
    • Services
      • CityWatch - report an issue
      • Information & staging events
      • Parking in the City of West Torrens
      • Pets and animals
      • Public & environmental health
      • Streets roads footpaths and permits
      • Street Sweeping
    • Waste and recycling
      • About your bins
      • A-Z guide to waste and recycling
      • Bindy the Waste and Recycling Chatbot
      • Tips to reduce waste
      • Organics bin and food waste recycling
      • Recycling bin
      • Waste to landfill bin
      • Electronic & electrical waste
      • Hard waste
      • Bin collection notifications
      • Chemicals and paint
      • Illegal dumping
      • Education - School and Community
      • Where recyclables go after collection
      • Plastic Recycling: it's not by numbers!
  • Popular
  • Building & planning
  • Community
  • Council
  • Environment
  • Library
  • Services
  • Waste and recycling
Report an issue
Community Engagement
Contact council
Make a payment online
Online services
Parking & Expiations
Which bin to put out?
Hard waste
Thebarton Community Centre
Development applications
Zoning information
Minutes & Agendas
Dog registration
Hamra centre library
Borrow from library
Library catalogue
Report an issue
Community Engagement
Contact council
Make a payment online
Online services
Parking & Expiations
Which bin to put out?
Hard waste
Thebarton Community Centre
Development applications
Zoning information
Minutes & Agendas
Dog registration
Hamra centre library
Borrow from library
Library catalogue
Buying a property
Development assessment
Renovations & extensions
Other development advice
Building Permits & licenses
Policy planning
Placemaking project - Admella Lane
Public Realm Design Manual
Fact Sheets - Engineering Guidelines for Development
Australia Day Awards 2020
Care and support
Children youth and families
Community arts
Community Centres
Community events calendar
Financial counselling
Grants, donations, rebates & sponsorships
Justices of the Peace
Lifestyle and inclusion
Major projects
Promote your community event
Talking Points Magazine
West Torrens Road Safety Group
Emergencies & disasters
Employment and volunteering
Feedback, compliments and complaints
Local history
Make a payment online
Meetings
Our City
Rates & charges
Tenders, contracting & purchasing
Your Council
Information
Climate change
Plants & animals
Renewable energy
Water
Trees
Urban greening
Hamra Centre Library
Activities and events
Digital literacy
Home Library Service
Learn english
Library catalogue & app
Library Fees & charges
Library News
Library resources & collections
Little Libraries locations
Membership & borrowing
Mobile Library
Computers and WiFi
Local History
CityWatch - report an issue
Information & staging events
Parking in the City of West Torrens
Pets and animals
Public & environmental health
Streets roads footpaths and permits
Street Sweeping
About your bins
A-Z guide to waste and recycling
Bindy the Waste and Recycling Chatbot
Tips to reduce waste
Organics bin and food waste recycling
Recycling bin
Waste to landfill bin
Electronic & electrical waste
Hard waste
Bin collection notifications
Chemicals and paint
Illegal dumping
Education - School and Community
Where recyclables go after collection
Plastic Recycling: it's not by numbers!

Click here for COVID-19 information.

Listen

Public Realm Design Manual

  • Downloads
    1
    Public Realm Design Manual
Public-Realm-Design-Manual.png
 

What is the public realm?

Put simply, it’s the public space that belongs to you, our community; it’s our streets, parks, open spaces and other outdoor places that are available for general public use. 

Public spaces that are well designed and cared for are better able to support a healthy and active community, a viable local economy, healthy natural landscapes and a community that is more resilient to climate change. Careful planning and management of the public realm can help create attractive and safe places for everyone to use, day and night, as well as having a role in managing emergency situations.

Why have a design manual?

West Torrens is experiencing urban densification and a growing population. The changes in housing types is leading to smaller private open spaces and this is placing greater emphasis on public parks and streetscapes to meet the social and recreation needs of our growing community. 

The City of West Torrens currently uses a diverse range of park and street furniture, materials and finishes. This mixture can create visual interest and diversity, but it can also weaken the sense of place and identity, add unnecessary maintenance and may not meet the needs of a changing landscape and community.

The design manual will provide clarity for our staff when it comes time to update, rejuvenate and create community spaces with regard to the look and feel of that space. This clarity will be achieved by using a carefully selected range of furnishings and treatments in the public space. Just as you use certain food ingredients to successfully cook, so too the design manual will provide recommendations on how to create public spaces that will help meet the needs of our community and create a sense of place.

West Torrens has its own unique character. To ensure that this character is maintained, it’s important that our public spaces are functional, attractive, sustainable and can respond to emerging needs and issues. Having a blueprint to help us design and plan our public spaces will help ensure consistency and continuity in our city which, in turn, can reinforce a sense of identity, pride and belonging. It will also help us achieve financial benefits by helping us design and manage public spaces that are sustainable over the long-term. By defining the preferred furnishings and treatments, this will reduce the variety of products and spare parts required and will improve maintenance time and money.

Public realm principles

A set of guiding principles will be used to make decisions about the design and function of the public realm to support a vibrant, active and safe community.

The principles are:

  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Comfort, Aesthetics and Amenity
  • Durability and Robustness
  • Management and Maintenance
  • Identity and Sense of Place
  • Functional and Adaptable
  • Health, Well-being and Safety
  • Connectivity and Integration.

How will the manual be used?

The design manual is intended to be used by Council staff as a reference to provide the designs and materials to develop and maintain our public spaces.  It will be an effective tool to guide capital and recurrent works programs.  In addition, it will be used by developers where private development meets the public realm. 

View and download an overview of the Design Manual.

View and download the full Design Manual.

 

Pages in this section

  • Buying a property
  • Development assessment
  • Renovations & extensions
  • Other development advice
  • Building Permits & licenses
  • Policy planning
  • Placemaking project - Admella Lane
  • Public Realm Design Manual
  • Fact Sheets - Engineering Guidelines for Development

Pages in this area

  • Buying a property
  • Development assessment
  • Renovations & extensions
  • Other development advice
  • Building Permits & licenses
  • Policy planning
  • Placemaking project - Admella Lane
  • Public Realm Design Manual
  • Fact Sheets - Engineering Guidelines for Development

On this page

Show section menu
 

Civic Centre

165 Sir Donald Bradman Drive
Hilton South Australia 5033
T. +618 8416 6333
Email Customer Services
csu@wtcc.sa.gov.au
ABN 16346877634

Hamra Centre Library

1 Brooker Terrace
Hilton South Australia 5033
T. +618 8416 6228
Email Library
library@wtcc.sa.gov.au
ABN 16346877634

© 2019 All rights reserved