Office Buildings and Planning Rules

S N Tucker
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S N Tucker: Division of Building Research, CSIRO, Highett, Victoria 3190, Australia

Environment and Planning B, 1980, vol. 7, issue 2, 195-208

Abstract: The effect of recent planning rules on the scale and character of new building developments in the central business district of a city has been investigated. Relationships between characteristics such as gross floor area, rentable floor area, number of levels, rentals, site value, and building value were investigated for a group of fifty-two office buildings in the city of Melbourne, and all were found to be well-described as simple functions of site area. Average gross floor area per level showed a trend towards an upper limit of about 1600 m 2 , whereas the proportion of the site area used by the typical tower block construction was shown to be a function of the size of the site, and was not influenced by bonus floor areas allowed for building setbacks. Expected return on a building that is in accord with all the trends found in the study is shown to have a minimum value for buildings on a site area of 1500 m 2 .

Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.1068/b070195

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