b'Transformative change Liveable NeighbourhoodsIn 1995, the WAPC recognised that if current suburban growth continued, a range of problems were likely to transpire.These included traffic, infrastructure, employment, social and environmental concernsall issues associated with suburban sprawl. Having regard to the Victorian Code for Residential Development (1991), AMCORD (1995) and the cost effective, land-efficient and sustainable new urban development approachin 1996 the WAPC initiated the WA Community Design Code. It went on to become the internationally successful Liveable Neighbourhoods project (LN).The first edition of LN was produced in 1997 and was issued as an optional alternative policy for consideration predominantly for residential urban extensions. The policy required a fundamental shift in thinking by traffic and civil design engineers to include road design; activated frontages to major distributor roads; kerb radii; truncations; and on-street parking as traffic calming devices. Housing diversity was also a major outcome which saw the introduction of Local Development Plans as a means of adapting the R Codes to facilitate diversity.Between the years 1996 and 2016, TBB played a key role as lead consultant for LN.From 1998 to 2004, LN catalysed a significant change in the form of urban development in WA, particularly in Perth. Today, LN ensures development incorporates interconnected streets with active frontages to arterials and parks; greater housing diversity; and local, neighbourhood and town activity centres based on main-street principles. All have a far higher standard of response to environmental and landscape considerations.LN has been internationally-recognised as one of the most innovative and comprehensive regulating documents for shaping more sustainable and liveable outcomes for urban extension. It also received the international Congress for New Urbanism Charter Award in 2000. Its principles are now widely adopted outside Western Australia.48'