Enjoyable public communal spaces

Klar Cite’s name

Mandatory

Required: must be met for the credential.

Guidance

This is guidance, not a requirement. Green Star Buildings Submission Guidelines restates what Green Star’s standard requires; the register holds it and cites it, and does not count it as a requirement or show it as one.

Green Star·clause Credit 31: Enjoyable Places·p.241

Social Health & Equity

Exemption: Where the communal space provided is less than the area prescribed above, the area provided is justified with a needs analysis.
Level: Credit Achievement

Original wording

Green Star Buildings Submission Guidelines clause Credit 31: Enjoyable Places — words not shown. Read it at the source. The held copy is a single-user licence and does not extend to republishing its clauses.

The clause is held and verified. Only its words are withheld.

Klar Cite classification — not the standard’s words

Addresses: enjoyment and usability of communal spaces

written by a model, checked against the clause

Read it at the source

Details

What the product must meet

The document’s own listing

Building type Communal space requirements (m2) All building types except Class 2 0.25 m2 per occupant or 2.5% of GFA (excluding car parks and back of house), and 3 whichever is greater, but at least 25 m2 Buildings that are predominantly Class 2 and 3 1.75 m2 / dwelling but at least 250 m2

The document’s own compact listing of the limits, as harvested.

Applies to: New areas provided by the building owner within the project boundary.
Exemptions: Where the communal space provided is less than the area prescribed above, the area provided is justified with a needs analysis.

How it is proven

Who checks it: Independent body verifies — a certifier, auditor or verifier with no stake

Klar Cite’s reading

Klar Cite’s reading of the clause, not the scheme’s own claim.

Type of requirement: Meet a limit or condition — e.g. a maximum emission or a minimum recycled content
Standing: Required — must be met for the credential
Topic: Social Health & Equity — the topic the clause addresses, grouped by the Common Materials Framework (CMF)
Level: Credit Achievement — the level of the credential this clause belongs to

Cite this clause

Green Star · Green Star Buildings Submission Guidelines · version v1.1 Rev A · clause Credit 31: Enjoyable Places · page 241 · build 2026-10-27-1239 · https://klarcite.com/r/9a23ffd41ddf9116

Source document

Record details

Page 241. Read in build 2026-10-27-1239, harvested 2026-10-27.

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