Landscape Architecture Design Standards

Standards for Landscape Architecture in Malaysia


Objective of Establishing Design Standards in Landscape Architecture:

1) Ensuring public safety
2) Benefiting public health
3) Ensuring equitable access to persons with disabilities
4) Maximising functional efficiency of public amenity
5) Maximising comfort and usability of landscape areas
6) Maximising aesthetics without compromising safety & health
7) Protecting consumers/public from endangering and/or lost of lives and property resultant from landscape development activities

ACT AND LAWS

1) Akta Jalan, Parit dan Bangunan 1974 (Akta 133)
Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 (Act 133)

2) Undang-undang Kecil Bangunan Seragam 1984
Uniform Building By-Law 1984

3) Akta Perancangan Bandar dan Desa 1976 (Akta 172)
Town and Country Planning Act 1976 (Act 172)

4) Akta Kerajaan Tempatan 1976 (Akta 171)
Local Government Act 1976 (Act 171)

5) Akta Kualiti Alam Sekitar 1974 (Akta 127)
Protection of Wildlife ACT 1972 (Act 76)

6) Akta (Perancangan) Wilayah Persekutuan 1982 (Akta 267)

7) Kanun Tanah Negara 1965 (Akta 56)
National Land Code 1965 (Act 56)


MALAYSIAN STANDARDS / GARISPANDUAN

1) Code of Practice For Access For Disabled People Outside Buildings
MS 1331 : 1993
2) Playground Equipment : Part 1: Specifications For Materials
MS 966 : PART 1 : 2001
3) Playground Equipment : PART 2 : General Safety Requirements
MS 966 : PART 2 : 2001
4) Playground Equipment : PART 3 : Test Methods MS 966 : PART 3 : 2001
5) Code of Practice on Access For Disabled Persons To Public Buildings
MS 1184 : 2002
6) National Landscape Department Guidelines, JPBD, KPKT, 1995


Akta Jalan, Parit dan Bangunan 1974 (Akta 133)
Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 (Act 133)

Part II – Streets

1. Maintenance and repair of public streets
2. Power to make and improve streets
3. Power to take land adjoining streets for building purposes
4. Power to acquire to be in accordance with law relating to compulsory acquisition
5. Private persons making new streets
6. Paving etc. of private streets
7. Widening of private streets
8. Repair of private streets
9. Notice on person causing private street to be in a dangerous or defective condition
10. Regular line of streets may be prescribed
11. Provision of footways, etc.
12. Hedges and trees bordering streets to be trimmed.
13. Prevention of grass fires
14. Trees not to be planted within 12 ft. of streets
15. Taking up pavement
16. Dangerous places to be repaired and enclosed
17. Watering Streets
18. Depositing Dirt on Street, etc.

Part III – Drains

1. Local Authority to construct and maintain drains and watercourses
2. Local Authority to repair and alter discontinue surface and strom drains, etc.
3. Penalty for making unauthorized drains into canals or streams

Part IV – Backlanes

1. Local Authority may acquire land for part of back-lane.
2. Declaration of back-lane as public street.

Part V – Buildings

1. Earthwork
2. Land to be set apart for back-lane



Undang-undang Kecil Bangunan Seragam 1984
Uniform Building By-Law

Part III - Space, Light and Ventilation

1. Open Spaces to be provided
2. Open Space not to be altered or roofed
3. Space about building abutting a street and a backlane
4. Space about buildings on lots abutting a street and having no backlane
5. Space about detached building
6. Access from a street
7. Width of footway



Akta Perancangan Bandar dan Desa 1976 (Akta 172)
Town and Country Planning Act 1976 (Act 172)

Part III – Development Plan

• Section 12. Preparation of draft local plans. (3) A draft local plan shall consist of a map and a written statement and shall formulate, in such details as the local planning authority thinks appropriate, its proposals for :–

– the development of;
– the use of land in;
– the protection and improvement of the physical environment of;
– the preservation of the natural topography of;
– the improvement of the landscape of;
– the preservation and planting of trees in;
– the making up of open spaces in;
– the preservation and enhancement of character and appearance of buildings in;
– the improvement of communications in; and
– the management of traffic in, the area of the local plan; and

• contain such matters as may be prescribed or as the Committee may in any particular case specify.



Part IV –Planning Control

• Section 21.

Application for Planning Permission, (3) Where the development involves the erection of a building, the local planning authority may give written directions to the applicant in respect of any of the following matters, that is to say :–

» the level of the site of the building;
» the line of frontage with neighbouring buildings;
» the elevations of building;
» the class, design, and appearance of the building;
» the setting back of the building to a building line;
» access to the land on which the building is to be erected; and
» any other matter that the local authority considers necessary for the purpose of planning.

•Section 21A.

Development Proposal Report (Laporan Cadangan Pemajuan-LCP) (1) In addition to the documents and plans required to be submitted under section 21(1) for planning permission, the applicant shall submit a development proposal report which shall contain the following:-

• the development concept and justification;
• a location map and site plan;
• particulars of land ownership and restrictions, if any;
• a description of the land including its physical topography, landscape, geology, contours, drainage, water bodies and catchments and natural features thereon;-
– a survey of trees and all forms of vegetation; and
– particulars of a building, which may be affected by the development;
• a land use analysis and its effect on the adjoining land;
• layout plans, the details of which are specified in section 21B; and
• such other matters as may be prescribed by the local planning authority


•Section 21B.

Layout Plans (1) The layout plans under paragraph (f) of section 21A (1) shall show the proposed development and in particular where the development is in respect of any land :–

• measures for the preservation and improvement of its physical environment;
– measures for the preservation of its natural topography;
– measures for the improvement of its landscape;
– measures for the preservation and planting of trees thereon;
– the location & species of trees with girth exceeding 0.8m metre & other vegetation thereon;
– the making up of open spaces;
– the proposed earthworks, if any; and
– a description of the works to be carried out; and
– Where the development is in respect of a building with special architecture or historical interest, particulars to identify the building including its use and condition, and its special character, appearance, make and feature and measures for its protection, preservation and enhancement; and
– Where the development involves a building operation, particulars of the character and appearance of buildings located in the surrounding area.


Part VA – Tree Preservation Order