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Office Buildings and Planning Rules

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  • S N Tucker

    (Division of Building Research, CSIRO, Highett, Victoria 3190, Australia)

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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 .

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  • S N Tucker, 1980. "Office Buildings and Planning Rules," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 7(2), pages 195-208, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirb:v:7:y:1980:i:2:p:195-208
    DOI: 10.1068/b070195
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