Function:
Location:
Easily accessed from roads or driveways for maintenance and metering
The services zone supports the day to day functioning of the school. It includes supporting infrastructure such as car parks, bicycle racks, service roads, bulk waste pads, fire hydrants and LPG tank enclosures. This infrastructure can be integrated with built structures or screened as necessary.
Service areas must be considered as an integral part of the school design. The siting of these facilities should balance the needs of amenity and security. Planting may be used to screen services from particular vantage points, while security may require clear views of that service from other areas.
In order to ensure that the available site area for teaching, learning and play is maximised, to enable community use and to encourage the use of sustainable means of transport to and from the school, on school site parking should be kept to a minimum. The parking numbers indicated in the EFSG accommodation summary are maximums and should only be provided when a site specific traffic report indicates that these numbers are required taking into account the location of the facility, public transport links, cycle routes etc.
Adequate space should be provided in car parks for tree planting to provide visual amenity and shade.
Cycle facilities can be located adjacent to buildings, which provide a level of security and weather protection.
| Criteria | Considerations |
|---|---|
| Microclimate | Avoid heat and glare from paved surfaces. |
| Context | Consider relationship of service to surrounding buildings and street - noise, odour, function, views. |
| Biodiversity Recovery | Low opportunity due to amount of hard paving required for most services. |
| Pedestrian movement | Separate service access from student use/ activity zones. Prevent student access in potentially dangerous areas. |
| Shade | Allow clear sightlines to vehicles from adjacent buildings. |
| Winter solar access | Maintain to key spaces in adjoining buildings. |
| Furniture | Not required. |
| Water | Sufficient hosecocks for irrigation. And wash down of waste pads and garbage collection / storage areas. |
| Erosion | Consider desire lines and spill out from edges of paving. |
| Surface | Paved to civil engineers design. |
| Solar glare | Bright, reflective areas to be avoided. |
| Allergenic plants | Plants that may cause allergies may be able to be used if there are no suitable alternatives, as student use is restricted. |
| Stormwater | Incorporate services pits within paved areas, rather than turf or planting beds. |
| Lighting | Refer Schools Facilities Standards. |
| Signage | Any services used by the public e.g. visitor car parks (refer Schools Facilities Standards and Specification Standard). |
| Maintenance | Low level due to restricted student access. |
