LANDSCAPING LEGISLATION

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Three Legislations that Apply to the Landscaping Project

The front yard issue is a historical phenomenon that is reported to have begun in New South Wales when a regulation was enacted in the year 1829. This legislation mandated the building of new homes to be at least 14 feet away from the streets in order to ensure there was adequate space in front of the houses for the gardens. By the 1900s, the notion of a front yard had increasingly been accepted in both the private homes as well as the public streets (Smith, 2001). Further, the Australians are reported to have adopted the ideals of the Americans of a front yard that has no fencing in order to create streets that looked like parks. This saw suburb wide efforts implemented in order to eliminate the fences hence encouraging god relationships among the neighbors and consequently discouraging crime and anti-social behavior.

Daceyville that is located in Sydney is reported to have been the very first suburb that systemically removed their fencing, and this was followed by the public housing in several other states. Some states even used cash prize competitions to encourage front yard beautifications. However, with the popularity of the front and back yard landscaping, several states were forced to come up with legislation that would govern the sectors. One of the legislation is the Environment Protection Act 1970 that apply to all the residential houses that have constructions going on. This includes single homes to the large apartments as well as the land preparation work that are carried out on the residential subdivisions. The legislation prescribes the activities carried out and their time in cases where they can actually be heard from a neighboring residence. The legislation ensures that the landscaping changes that are being made do not in any way interfere with the other neighborhood residence. The legislation includes the noise regulations in the preparation of land works within the residential subdivisions. Further, it includes noise regulations within the large scale suburban construction.

Legislation is the Environment Protection (Environment and Resource Efficiency Plans) Regulations 2007. This legislation came to force on January 2008 that was meant to regulate the industrial and commercial sites as well as other facilities that consume more 120 ML or/and 100 T J energy within a given financial. This was aimed at ensuring that a plan is formulated to help identify the actions that will be taken to ensure reduction in the use of water and energy, and waste generation. Each of the sites within Victoria that exceeds one threshold is expected to be registered with the EPA, come up with a plan, implement the plan within three years and produce a report annually (Geoffrey, 2013). This legislation is significant for this landscaping project since it requires use of large amount of water on the vegetation, swimming pool among others. Finally, the third legislation that will regulate this landscaping project is the Environment Protection (Fees) Regulations 2012. This legislation has been in operation since October 2012 and prescribes the fees that are administered by EP. The fees that are included in this legislation include license fees; environmental audit fees, works approval fees, as well as waste transport permit fees (Geoffrey, 2013). Indeed, this is a significant legislation given the in this project.

References

Geoffrey Bl. (2013). A History of Victoria, Port Melbourne. Cambridge University Press.

Smith, R. M. (2001). The Front Garden: New Approaches to Landscape Design . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.