Victorian Consolidated Regulations

Building Regulations 2006 - SECT 416

Daylight to existing habitable room windows

416. Daylight to existing habitable room windows



(1) A building must be set back from a habitable room window in an existing
dwelling on an adjoining allotment to provide for a light court to the window
that has a minimum area of 3m2 and a minimum dimension of 1m clear to the sky.

(2) The area of the light court required under subregulation (1) may include
land on the adjoining allotment.

(3) A wall or carport with an average height of more than 3m opposite a
habitable room window in an existing dwelling on an adjoining allotment must
be set back from that window at least half the height of the wall or carport
if the wall or carport is within a 55° angle in the horizontal plane about a
vertical axis through the centre of the window.

(4) For the purposes of subregulation (3), the angle may be swung to not less
than 35° from the plane of the wall containing the window.

(5) If the window referred to in subregulation (3) is above ground floor
level, then for the purposes of that subregulation, the wall or carport height
is to be measured from the floor level of the room containing the window.

(6) The report and consent of the relevant council must be obtained to an
application for a building permit in relation to a design that does not comply
with this regulation.

Note The following diagram illustrates the operation of aspects of regulation
416(3).



Regulation 416: Daylight to existing windows