Transformation plan

October 2015 www.thebayssydney.com.au The opportunity for Sydney The NSW Government’s ambition for The Bays Precinct is: “To drive an internationally competitive economy, through the creation of great destinations on Sydney Harbour that will transform Sydney, New South Wales and Australia.”

i October 2015 The Bays Precinct, Sydney is one of the highest potential urban transformation sites in the world.

Sitting just two kilometres west of the The transformation of The Bays Precinct Sydney CBD, The Bays Precinct comprises is an opportunity to create stunning 5.5 kilometres of harbourfront, 95 waterfront destinations and to deliver the hectares of largely government-owned kind of public spaces, promenades and land and 94 hectares of waterways in workplaces that we can all be proud of. Sydney Harbour. But it is potentially much more than Since being tasked to lead the that: it represents a once-in-a-generation transformation of The Bays Precinct opportunity to deliver innovation and just over 12 months ago, UrbanGrowth attract the jobs of the future for Sydney NSW has encouraged public participation and NSW, equipping Sydney for the in the transformation process and has future and reinforcing its reputation as received ideas and feedback from the an internationally-competitive, resilient public and experts alike. This input has and prosperous global city to live, work informed this Transformation Plan: The and visit. Bays Precinct, Sydney.

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney ii An ambitious plan: Ambition “To drive an internationally The transformation competitive economy, through the creation of great destinations on Sydney at a glance Harbour that will transform Sydney, New South Wales and Australia”.

Imagine the Bays Precinct in 20 years... Seven Key ACTIONS

Seven key actions are proposed to A waterfront promenade connects all The The Bays Precinct drives international shape The Bays Precinct Transformation Bays Precinct’s Destinations via Pyrmont competitiveness and attracts industries Program. They are: to the CBD and restores visual and and people from all over the world, while physical links to Sydney Harbour. It is full providing great places for residents, Divide The Bays Precinct into eight of activity night and day – people enjoying workers and visitors from all over Sydney. 1 distinct but linked Destinations a mix of ‘pop-ups’ or events alongside permanent restaurants, small bars, cafés, The restored White Bay Power Station 2 Introduce the Bays Waterfront garden areas or on the waterways. and its surrounds buzz with cool places to Promenade live and work, galleries and safe, friendly Recover and repurpose the The Bays Precinct uses its natural places; a modern, village-like hub of shops 3 White Bay Power Station resources and renewables to power its and restaurants; and a new waterfront Create the Bays Market District buildings, places and spaces; reuses plaza to people-watch and enjoy the 4 most of its waste; and is built around a breeze off Sydney Harbour. incorporating a rejuvenated cleaner, less polluted Harbour. Sydney Fish Market A world-renowned, vibrant fresh food Include Wentworth Park in A transport and mobility network and fish market – the Bays Market 5 the Program area connects each Destination, dramatically District at Blackwattle Bay – is loved by reducing private car dependency. Sydneysiders and international guests. 6 Work towards repurposing Glebe Island Bridge

7 Introduce water quality initiatives in the Bays Waterways

This Transformation Plan: The Bays Precinct, Sydney represents a blueprint to transform The Bays Precinct into a bustling hub of enterprise, activity and beautiful spaces. Located within the iconic Sydney Harbour, the area will be enjoyed by Sydneysiders and the global community alike.

iii October 2015 Destinations

White Bay Enhance the experience at White Bay through a mix of port, maritime, Glebe Island recreation and employment uses. The opportunity to support blue economic activities of the port and maritime industries, potentially combining with a technological and innovation campus

White Bay Power Station Adaptive reuse of the Power Station and surrounds to create a hub for knowledge-intensive and advanced White Bay technological industries

Johnstons Bay

Rozelle Rail Yards Sydney CBD A mix of different housing choices, 2 kms including affordable housing, as well as public spaces and employment uses Rozelle Bay Blackwattle Bay

Rozelle Bay and Bays Waterways Bays Waterfront Promenade New land and maritime uses including A continuous, staged waterfront a mix of commercial, open space and promenade from Balmain to Pyrmont other living uses, with working harbour connecting all Destinations through industries and on-water recreation to the CBD and Woolloomooloo facilities

Bays Market District Wentworth Park A new world-class market food offering Opportunity to integrate with the Bays and dining attraction, connected to the Market District and surrounds, with a water and centred around a rejuvenated new type of shared, activated public Sydney Fish Market space for people to gather, socialise and interact

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney iv v October 2015 Contents

The opportunity for Sydney i An ambitious plan: The transformation at a glance iii 1 About this document 1 2 About The Bays Precinct 3 3 Why transform The Bays Precinct? 7 4 From ambition to delivery: achieving the transformation 11 5 The Bays Precinct and its network of Destinations 19 6 What the transformation means 45 7 Stakeholder engagement 53 8 Towards a globally competitive and resilient transformation 57 8.1 Planning and urban design 59 8.2 Living in The Bays 67 8.3 Transport and getting around 69 9 Thank you 71

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About this document

This Transformation Plan has been The Transformation Plan: The Bays Precinct, The Transformation Plan: developed by UrbanGrowth NSW, the Sydney is informed by feedback received The Bays Precinct, Sydney NSW Government agency tasked with from Sydneysiders, local government, builds on extensive work transforming The Bays Precinct. It industry and State agencies, as well as the establishes a strategy for how The Bays exciting concepts from the Call for Great over the last 15 or so Precinct can build on its heritage, support Ideas. It draws on international expertise, years and provides a its local communities, provide safe and emerging trends for 21st Century global exciting places and spaces, optimise cities, and advice on critical considerations. guiding direction for maritime uses and develop social capital Our work also sits within the context of a to support the growth of Sydney as an the BAYS precinct’s future. wider NSW Government policy agenda for internationally competitive and globally Sydney and for the state of NSW, set out relevant city. in A Plan for Growing Sydney and the NSW This Transformation Plan sets out Making it Happen State Priorities. priorities, timing and uses for the UrbanGrowth NSW’s approach to Precinct by: transforming city living is guided by our City Transformation Life Cycle™ including an overall ambition for methodology (see Figure 1). The Bays Precinct on which we have consulted widely This methodology starts in a completely different place to major development projects. Before contemplating built form, including a clear policy framework we first need to reflect on the strategic to take the Plan from ambition to significance of the site, its context reality while instilling accountability economically and culturally, and its potential in delivery uses and beneficiaries. In summary, we need to start with Thinking Cities.

outlining a high-level spatial Thinking Cities is the first element of planning framework for immediate, the Life Cycle. It brings together our ideas, medium-term and longer-term use ambitions, aspirations and needs to define and activity. what we want Sydney to be. The second element is Funding Cities. Again, this is a departure from usual practice. It is a This Transformation Plan is a living iterative process to seek innovative strategic document that will be updated funding and finance ideas. as priority Destinations evolve or as The third element, the usual starting needs arise to adapt to future challenges. point for major projects, is Building Cities. During this process, Sydneysiders will Importantly though, this is not solely have many more chances to be involved about design; instead, it is about the through engagement on each of The Bays integration of uses and infrastructure and Precinct’s unique Destinations. the best and highest-value use of the land.

1 October 2015 Of course it deals with design, but our methodology establishes diversity of design, enables world-class developments and, most of all, enables smart delivery through transparent market engagement processes. The fourth element is Living Cities. This is the creation of great places, great spaces and great opportunities and is fundamental to produce a global Sydney that is resilient, happy and prosperous. The Life Cycle anchored discussions at The Bays Precinct, Sydney International Summit in November 2014, a unique undertaking that brought together 350 local and international experts to collaborate on the best ideas for urban transformation. The Summit generated a Statement of 20 high-level Principles that have guided the aspirations included in this Transformation Plan. We released the Transforming City Living: The Bays Precinct Discussion Paper in May 2015 at The Bays Precinct Sydneysiders Summit and Leadership Forums. The Discussion Paper presented initial ideas and ambitions for The Bays Precinct and served as the basis for this Transformation Plan. More than 1,200 people attended the Summit and Forums and we received more than 4,000 comments or submissions to the Discussion Paper. We also launched the Call for Great Ideas in May 2015, inviting people to submit innovative Figure 1: UrbanGrowth NSW: ideas on four Destinations: Bays Waterfront City Transformation Life CycleTM Promenade, Bays Market District, White Bay Power Station and White Bay. The Call for Great Ideas captured innovative thinking from local and global communities and industry on how The Bays Precinct’s future should unfold.

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 2 About The 2 Bays Precinct

The Bays Precinct is made Current uses up of the waterways and Some of The Bays Precinct is used for foreshores of Johnston’s port and maritime uses. Integrating Bay, White Bay, Rozelle port and maritime uses as The Bays Bay and Blackwattle Bay. Precinct is transformed is essential: • Glebe Island feeds our city’s demand Just two kilometres for sugar, gypsum and cement. west of the Sydney CBD, • White Bay operates as Sydney’s it is nestled within and second cruise ship terminal, supporting around 1,500 jobs, and around Pyrmont, Ultimo, more than 100 cruise ships and Annandale, Glebe, Rozelle, 200,000 passengers each year. Lilyfield and Balmain. Other busy areas include Blackwattle Bay, home to the Sydney Fish Market, one At the moment, some of the land and of Sydney’s biggest tourism drawcards water that makes up The Bays Precinct is and a busy hub of retail and wholesale used for a range of important maritime, suppliers. Nearby sites include a concrete port and commercial uses. Much of it batching plant and recreational uses such cannot be accessed by the public. Many as dragon boat storage. Rozelle Bay hosts significant heritage items are not being a range of maritime industries including used to their potential. waterways maintenance, a Heritage Fleet and the Sydney Superyacht Marina. Uniquely, almost all The Bays Glebe Island has transitioned from the former car import terminal to its current Precinct’s land and water is role as the temporary site of the Sydney owned by the NSW Government. Exhibition Centre. The area is one of the few places boasting views of both the Sydney Harbour and Anzac Bridges. The Glebe Island Bridge is heritage listed, and, with repurposing, could be used once again. Other areas, such as the land surrounding the White Bay Power Station and the Rozelle Rail Yards, sit idle and the Power Station buildings are empty and derelict. Nearby uses include mixed industries, some working harbour uses and transport connections.

3 October 2015 95 hectares 5.5 of land kilometres of 8 waterfront 94 destinations hectares of Sydney Harbour

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 4 When new settlers arrived, The Bays – harbour baths were established at Historic uses Precinct was again transformed, this time Pyrmont in 1875, Blackwattle Swamp The Bays Precinct has always been a supporting the essential maritime trade and Creek were filled in to create place of transformation. For the Cadigal that fed the new colony. By the late 1820s, Wentworth Park in 1876, and in 1879 and Wangal clans of the Eora nation, abattoirs were established on land around the Glebe Rowing Club was established who settled the area we now think of Blackwattle Swamp before they were at Blackwattle Bay, with its first regatta as The Bays Precinct for thousands of relocated to Glebe Island in the 1850s. held in 1883. years before European settlement, it As trade increased, industrial uses such Some of the imposing structures that was abundant in natural food supplies as a timber mill and detergents factory define The Bays Precinct’s identity and allowed trading with other clans and were established at White Bay, and in played a part in Sydney’s significant movement on creeks and waterways. 1862 a bridge was built connecting transformation in the 20th Century: the These clans established a rich and Glebe Island to Pyrmont, replaced in White Bay Power Station, which opened thriving Aboriginal culture that gradually 1903 by a new swing bridge. in 1913, powered Sydney’s vital train and disappeared after the arrival of the First Fleet. As well as commerce, the area also became home to recreational areas

5 October 2015 tram network (this was decommissioned continued to flourish in the area. The opened in 1995 and a new super yacht in 1983); the grain silos were built at Sydney Fish Market moved to its current marina opened at Rozelle Bay in 2000. Glebe Island in 1975; and the Rozelle site in 1966 and the first NSW container The most recent change in the area was Rail Yards became a marshalling area terminal opened at White Bay in 1969. the opening of the White Bay International for trains when the Metropolitan Goods Glebe Island’s former role as a terminal Passenger Terminal in 2013. railway line opened in 1922. for imported cars began in the early 1990s, the eight-lane Anzac Bridge During the Second World War, Glebe Island was used as the US Army’s main depot in Sydney. After the war, industries

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 6 Why transform 3 The Bays Precinct?

This transformation can rejuvenate 5.5 We cannot achieve this scale of THE TRANSFORMATION OF kilometres of Sydney Harbour foreshore transformation with a business-as-usual THE BAYS PRECINCT IS AN and create new contemporary and approach. Instead, we need to place as OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITY dynamic places for cultural, maritime, much emphasis on improving the social ST recreational, retail, residential, research and environmental life of the local area FOR 21 CENTURY SYDNEY and development, education, and as we do on unlocking the drivers of commercial uses while drawing on the productivity, such as knowledge-intensive authenticity and local charm of the well- jobs, new transport options and cutting- established nearby suburbs. edge digital connections. The transformation will also meet A Plan The Bays Precinct’s primary role for Growing Sydney’s goal to transform will be as a generator of social and The Bays Precinct’s “currently underused economic transformation – a place areas for the economic, cultural and whose successes and benefits filter social benefit of Sydney and the state.” through to many industries, workers and communities and to Sydney as a whole. Shaping prosperity This will in turn drive the creation of Destinations with unique functions. A Plan for Growing Sydney forecasts that The Bays Precinct will be a major another 1.6 million people will be living in contributor to the NSW economy. Sydney by 2031 and economic output is The Sydney CBD already contributes expected to almost double to $565 billion $100 billion to Australia’s Gross a year, requiring an additional 689,000 Domestic Product every year, and The new jobs. Bays Precinct offers the scale and scope The transformation of The Bays Precinct to create a location for the knowledge- will provide the kind of places, spaces intensive jobs of the future. This follows and connections that support economic a growing global trend of cities taking development and growth, encourage the lead in building national prosperity – innovation and attract the jobs of the essential in an Australian economy future. It will contribute to Sydney’s that’s shifting away from its reliance international competitiveness and meet on resources. the needs of a growing population. This has been recognised federally with the creation of a new Federal Minister for Cities and the Built Environment in September 2015.

7 October 2015 October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 8 9 October 2015 THE POTENTIAL OF THE BAYS PRECINCT AS AN URBAN TRANSFORMATION PROJECT IS UNSURPASSED

Global competitiveness Sydney Harbour location Market attractiveness The Bays Precinct can contribute to The Bays Precinct sits within an The Bays Precinct’s location and Sydney’s role as a globally competitive internationally renowned natural asset, potential will attract private sector city, while retaining all the elements Sydney Harbour, and includes 5.5 investment. Open and transparent that make the city a great place to live. kilometres of Sydney Harbour foreshore. procurement processes will provide We can unlock public access to the the best possible public outcomes. Proximity and scale Harbour’s edge early, getting more Sydneysiders into, around, and Consistency with The Bays Precinct sits just two kilometres engaged in The Bays Precinct. west of the CBD, enabling an integration government policy with the CBD and the potential to make Existing enterprises The Bays Precinct is identified as a a real contribution to the city’s economic critical precinct in A Plan for Growing future with appropriately staged We can harness the success of existing Sydney. The proposed staged approach transport solutions. enterprises such as the port, Sydney to transformation is consistent with the Fish Market and maritime uses to help planning and delivery of WestConnex, the Government ownership re-energise The Bays Precinct’s CBD and South East Light Rail and the commercial activities. Government ownership of most long-term considerations for The Bays Precinct’s port uses. of the land enables us to stage the Culture and history transformation and to do so with support right across government. The Bays Precinct has a rich cultural This guarantees our commitment history, including Aboriginal and maritime to fearlessly pursue public benefit. history, with heritage assets that include the White Bay Power Station and the Glebe Island Bridge. We can honour this heritage and create great places and connections around these assets, developing new ways to allow port uses and public uses to operate side by side.

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 10 From ambition 4 to delivery: Achieving the transformation The Bays Precinct Transformation A cohesive and workable policy framework Program marks a The Transformation Plan translates the The Bays Precinct’s ambition and new approach NSW Government’s ambition for The Bays includes an action-oriented plan to in the Precinct’s Precinct into a policy framework (see deliver results and provide accountability. Figure 2) that will guide UrbanGrowth It also includes a complementary series evolution. NSW in collaboration with State of principles, objectives, policies and agencies and other entities. management actions. Objectives are The framework illustrates the linked to timeframes and targets to relationships that will help us to deliver focus resources.

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11 October 2015 A cohesive and workable policy framework Ambition Principles ‘To drive an internationally Statement of Principles informed competitive economy, by national and international through the creation of best practice that underpins great destinations on and guides the transformation. Sydney Harbour that will See page 13. transform Sydney, New South Wales and Australia.’ The Bays Precinct Transformation Program: brings together the many requirements of different State agencies to align the transformation to a single, clear ambition • draws on the UrbanGrowth NSW: City Transformation Life Cycle™ which will require us to: –– think about the strategic, Bays Precinct economic and cultural significance of each Destination, their best Objectives uses and the benefits they can provide (Thinking Cities) See page 13. –– concentrate on innovative funding and finance ideas to secure destination financial certainty (Funding Cities) –– address not only design, but also seven key Objectives how we integrate different uses with infrastructure, what is the See page 14. best use or function for the land, actions and how we can use transparent See page 15. processes to achieve diverse outcomes and smart delivery (Building Cities) immediate –– create great places, great spaces and great opportunities in actions transformed Destinations that are See page 17. resilient, happy and prosperous (Living Cities). Further action, targets and • works towards outcomes that serve indicators will form part of the the needs of entire communities Bays Precinct Planning and Urban rather than providing benefits to a Design Strategic Framework limited few. (page 60). These will be fully documented once studies and analyses are completed.

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 12 Statement of Principles

The Bays Precinct, Sydney International Summit in November 1 2 2014 generated 20 high-level Build on the unique history of Establish a powerful and enduring Principles that underpin our approach The Bays Precinct. governance model based on whole- to land and waterways uses, of-government collaboration that development and governance as we fearlessly pursues public benefit. work to ensure the primacy of the public good throughout The Bays Precinct’s transformation. 3 4 Our processes mean Sydneysiders can Be transparent and communicate the Allow the time to invest in genuine shape how the transformation takes issues and challenges we face and and early engagement with, and broad place through an ongoing program of the investments needed to realise the acceptance of our plans from, all engagement and participation. Precinct’s potential. categories of the public, government and industry.

5 6 Unlock public access to the Harbour’s Develop an overall Bays Precinct edge and waterways along the entire Transformation Program to prioritise coastline. major projects and define the staging for integrated development and land use.

7 8 Establish a whole-of-precinct transport Prioritise planning for public spaces, infrastructure plan early, based on White Bay Power Station and Sydney connectivity, accessibility and active Fish Market. transport.

Objectives for transforming The Bays Precinct

These objectives will deliver a Bays The NSW Government’s objectives for the Precinct for the 21st Century: a place that drives our economy; a place enriched by transformation of The Bays Precinct are: easy access, wonderful green spaces, 1 To deliver a hub of export-oriented 5 To achieve building design excellence environmental excellence and a mix knowledge-intensive jobs that and quality urban design in all of activity for everyone; a place that can increase Sydney’s global Destinations. enjoys a true diversity in housing types competitiveness. and building design; and a place that 6 To provide ecological and marine contributes to Sydney’s global standing 2 To deliver enduring, socially water quality improvements to enable and local authenticity. The objectives, inclusive and great places to benefit abundant biodiversity. Sydneysiders and national and derived from the Statement of Principles 7 T o deliver integrated utilities solutions international communities. and informed by public feedback, are that enable advanced energy the next step in achieving the NSW 3 To deliver housing choices, including generation and technologies. Government’s ambition. affordable housing options, through 8 T o apply integrated planning within a design, finance and construction land and water context that considers excellence. strategic policy decisions and the 4 To deliver a world-class mass and interrelationships between biophysical, active transit solution that unlocks the social and economic aspects. economic and human potential of The 9 T o celebrate heritage and culture by Bays Precinct and demonstrates a creating new experiences throughout model of environmental excellence. The Bays Precinct.

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9 10 11 Generate optimal housing supply Ensure the land use and associated Build the capacity for The Bays outcomes based on a model of diverse development is diverse, beautifully Precinct to be a place that contributes housing options, the highest design designed and creates ‘great places to healthy, prosperous and resilient principles and activated public spaces. and great spaces’. lifestyles.

12 13 14 Support economic development and Plan for future generations by being Adopt world-class energy generation growth that can drive a strong, digitally- open to new ideas and embracing systems that maximise efficiency and connected, innovative and diverse emerging trends. establish The Bays Precinct as the knowledge economy. exemplar for ‘big city’ energy provision.

15 16 17 Introduce environmental and Support the economic activities Provide the platform for investment ecological systems to improve water of maritime industries and celebrate from Australia and abroad, and from quality, address ongoing sources of the authenticity of the working harbour. public and private sectors. water pollution and encourage public recreation.

18 19 20 Incorporate a strong funding and Seek broad sources of funding for Employ an ethical procurement process financial strategy to enable innovative, urban transformation across a range that optimises value for government leading-edge and productive of investors, including superannuation and taxpayers while being attractive investment vehicles that promote and pension funds, and philanthropy. to investors. investor appetite.

Objectives for transforming The Bays Precinct

Objectives for the immediate priority Destinations are: 1 F or the first time, to deliver a 3 T o rejuvenate the Sydney Fish Market continuous, staged, waterfront (wholesale and retail), and expand the promenade from Balmain to fresh food offering, creating a world- Pyrmont, connecting right through class Bays Market District connected to the CBD and beyond. to the water. 2 To unlock the potential of the White 4 T o seamlessly integrate Wentworth Bay Power Station and recognise its Park with the Bays Market District history in an authentic way. and surrounds.

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The following actions will kick-start the transformation of The Bays Precinct by focusing on the immediate Priority Destinations. Beyond this, we will take the time to engage with partners across government and industry, and with Sydneysiders, so that we have wide acceptance of our plans, and a clear, staged program of activity through the 25-year Transformation Program. This will keep us open to new ideas and emerging trends.

1 Start work on the Bays Waterfront 5 Complete the Bays Precinct 8 Investigate water quality Promenade (Stage 1 Pyrmont to Comprehensive Transport and improvements that maintain Blackwattle Bay) as soon as possible Mobility Plan and make it consistent or enhance water quality, with with the staging of the Priority Blackwattle Bay and Rozelle Bay 2 Initiate the development of the Bays Destinations as a priority Market District by rejuvenating the Sydney Fish Market (wholesale and 6 Establish an Early Temporary 9 Investigate integrated utilities retail) and creating a new world-class Activation Program to enable short- solutions to enable energy generation marketplace term experimental, cultural and and advanced technologies recreational opportunities such as 3 Unlock the potential of White Bay 10 In partnership with the Port Authority pop-ups, mobile food trucks on Power Station by proceeding quickly of NSW, engage stakeholders the land and water or a community with a call for proposals to transform on innovative solutions to the boat shed the Power Station and its surrounds environmental and operational 7 Establish storytelling of The Bays issues at the Cruise Terminal. 4 Commence planning to integrate Precinct’s heritage and culture Wentworth Park into the Bays Market through new trails on land and water District and surrounds

Prioritising the destinations

The division of The Bays Precinct into eight distinct but linked Destinations will be prioritised as per below. Much of the schedule is based on existing uses – for example, Glebe Island is a longer-term Destination, as it will be used as the temporary site of the Sydney Exhibition Centre until around 2017 and later as a potential temporary construction logistics site for major infrastructure projects. The grain silos are subject to longer-term leases, whereas the Sydney Fish Market, which will be the centrepiece of the Bays Market District, is ready for an immediate refresh.

Immediate Priority Medium-term Priority Longer-term Priority Destinations (works Destination (works Destinations (works commencing 2015 – 2019) commencing 2019 – 2022) commencing 2022 • Bays Waterfront Promenade (Stage • Rozelle Bay and Bays Waterways and beyond) 1 Pyrmont to Blackwattle Bay (Blackwattle and Johnstons Bays) • Rozelle Rail Yards and future stages consistent with medium and longer-term priorities) • Glebe Island • White Bay Power Station • White Bay (2025) (including surround) • Bays Market District (Sydney Fish Market and world-class market offering) • Wentworth Park (2016)

17 October 2015 Keys to success

The success of The Bays Precinct Transformation Program will depend on effective participation by decision-makers and stakeholders.

Leadership Holistic placemaking Procurement at In July 2014, the NSW Government Our commitment to a holistic approach major project stages directed UrbanGrowth NSW to lead to placemaking will integrate The Bays Our approach to procurement is transformation of The Bays Precinct. Precinct’s waterfront and waters within predicated on open and transparent We will do this by implementing this Sydney Harbour and within The Bays public processes. Rather than an Transformation Plan. Precinct’s regional context. inflexible procurement process with fixed objectives for an entire project, Whole-of-government Transport and mobility our processes will reflect the stage at partnership Recognising that an efficient transport which a project has progressed before an opportunity is brought to market. We will work with partners across system is an enabler to urban Given our commitment to involve government to find the best ways to transformation, our transport solutions Sydneysiders in every stage of each facilitate the transformation of The will integrate with planning for a growing Destination’s transformation, this will Bays Precinct. Sydney and consider opportunities from surrounding land and waterway uses also help us to integrate relevant and and existing transport systems. timely community feedback into each Public engagement project’s procurement processes. We will continue to engage with Funding Sydneysiders throughout the transformation through extensive A Precinct-wide funding and finance “[We need] greater recognition engagement programs, liaison with model will include: and promotion of the fact that a councils and targeted programs • developer contributions proportion of the funds required for school and university students. • private, public partnerships for the delivery of the plans Industry to fund infrastructure will have to be generated by We will work with industry to identify • balance sheet funding by development within The Bays practical and economically-feasible UrbanGrowth NSW Precinct and that, at some point solutions, including the provision of • an investigation of value capture in the future, the community infrastructure that can be a catalyst will be required to make trade- for capital investment. • opportunities where private land will benefit from The Bays Precinct offs between actions within the Assuring excellence investment or rezoning. plans and development required to fund them.” The UrbanGrowth NSW Design Directorate, led by the NSW Government – Leichhardt Municipal Council Architect and other eminent design professionals from Australia and overseas, will oversee excellence in public domain, urban, landscape and building design.

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 18 The Bays Precinct and its 5 network of Destinations

The location and scale Table 1 – Possible mix of uses in the Bays Precinct of The Bays Precinct ••• Major focus •• Moderate focus • Minor focus – None makes it a high potential Destination Public Realm Housing Employment urban transformation Destination: Bays Waterfront • • • – • proposition Promenade Destination: White Bay Power • • • • • • • • Encompassing 95 hectares of mostly Station (including surrounds) government-owned land and 94 Destination: Bays Market • • • • • • • • hectares of harbour waterways, The Bays District Precinct includes many unique areas that serve different communities, are Destination: Wentworth Park • • • – • valued differently by these communities, Destination: Rozelle Bay • • • • • • • and offer different opportunities for and Bays Waterways transformation. For this reason, we’re Destination: Rozelle Rail Yards • • • • • • taking a ‘Destination approach’ to the transformation, where ‘Destination’ Strategic deep-water port and potential Destination: Glebe Island* describes an area of The Bays Precinct technological and innovation campus with a distinct context and ambition. Each Destination’s opportunities and Destination: White Bay • • • – ••† features will contribute to the sense of place and experiences created. We have identified eight Destinations White Bay Power Station for transformation (see Figure 4), with (Immediate Priority 2015 – 2019) a schedule of immediate, medium-term and longer-term activity. The possible mix of uses across public realm, housing and employment for these Destinations is summarised in Table 1. As The Bays Precinct Transformation Program evolves, it may become necessary to expand the Program Area to take advantage of natural synergies Rozelle Rail Yards and further development opportunities. Any expansion would be subject to (Longer-term Priority 2022 and beyond) detailed stakeholder engagement.

Rozelle Bay and Bays Waterways (Medium-term Priority 2019 – 2022)

*Subject to planning processes that will guide future uses †Includes strategic deep-water port

19 October 2015 White Bay (Longer-term Priority 2025)

Glebe Island* (Longer-term Priority 2022 and beyond)

Bays Waterfront Promenade (Immediate Priority 2015 and staged access in other Destinations)

Bays Market District Wentworth Park (Immediate Priority 2015 – 2019) (Immediate Priority 2016)

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October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 20 Priority: Immediate Destination: Bays Waterfront Promenade

21 October 2015 Priority: Immediate

OBJECTIVE For the first time, to deliver a continuous, staged, waterfront promenade from Balmain to Pyrmont, connecting right through to the CBD and beyond. Features • Providing a 5.5 kilometre continuous public foreshore access • Staging public access to previously excluded areas • Starting with Stage 1 linking Blackwattle Bay to Pyrmont • Providing benefits for existing and future businesses exposed to new pedestrian trade • Reconnecting Balmain to Pyrmont by working towards the adaptive re-use of Glebe Island Bridge • Increasing visual and physical links to Sydney Harbour and The Bays Precinct • Providing a mix of green shorelines and living sea walls The Bays Waterfront Promenade will provide the opportunity to safely walk or cycle along the Sydney Harbour waterfront, all the way from Balmain through to the Sydney CBD and Woolloomooloo – a trip that follows the beautiful Sydney Harbour, with opportunities to sit by the foreshore with a coffee, enjoy a long lunch at a waterside café, access the Harbour for water-based activities, admire locally-produced sculptures or art, gaze at amazing views and even pop in to see the busy activity of a local community garden.

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The Bays Waterfront Promenade will for every visitor to Sydney; a waterfront Unlocking waterfront access will also deliver a continuous, shared waterfront playground to bring communities provide opportunities to better connect promenade from Balmain to Pyrmont that together. It will be designed to seamlessly with the water. Ecological restoration opens up direct harbour frontage. This will connect the urban coastal and marine activities, efforts to improve marine water be delivered incrementally, with priority context with both green shorelines and quality and new waterway infrastructure locations to unlock access. It will build living sea walls. A variety of trails will such as wharves, moorings and jetties on the popular access that Sydneysiders link the Promenade including cultural, with opportunities for transient berthing, already have along the water in areas such recreational and “blue waterway trails”. will allow more people to enjoy activities as Blackwattle Bay Park and Bicentennial on the water in The Bays Precinct or The Promenade’s evolution will be guided Park and throughout the Harbour. connect to the wider Harbour. by The Bays Precinct Planning and Urban While the Bays Waterfront Promenade will Design Strategic Framework (refer to be an essential connector within The Bays Section 8), to ensure fully integrated Precinct and to surrounding suburbs, it planning with both the local and wider will be more than just a pathway that links context. Innovative design will include people between great places – it will be future-proofing measures to provide planned as a new must-see Destination flood protection and storm resilience.

23 October 2015 October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 24 Priority: Immediate Destination: White Bay Power Station

25 October 2015 Priority: Immediate

OBJECTIVE To unlock the potential of the White Bay Power Station to recognise its history in an authentic way. Features • Providing a hub for knowledge- intensive and advanced technological industries • Adaptively re-using the State- listed heritage of the White Bay Power Station • Providing housing choices to support and attract talent for a knowledge-intensive destination • Merging with the Bays Waterfront Promenade in a new activated forecourt that provides access to the water • Reviewing opportunities for a new ferry service

The White Bay Power Station and the surrounding lands to White Bay foreshore are the most recognised of The Bays Precinct’s landmark areas. By creating a new landmark for Sydney that draws on the whole Precinct’s working heritage, we can enshrine the area’s history while demonstrating a resilience and flexibility to adapt for the future.

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Vacant and derelict buildings open a We want White Bay Power Station to A potential new technological and window to the past, and in many cases be the best example in Sydney of how innovation campus at the nearby Glebe represent classic architecture and design living, working and learning can be Island in emerging industries such as: that stand the test of time. We will woven together to create a prosperous • medical and biomedical research; work with Sydneysiders and the Power and thriving economy, This requires us Station’s ultimate users to remediate to think about the most appropriate mix • international education; and rehabilitate the structures and of uses, including residential, for the • digital disruptors; create a destination alive with jobs, Power Station and surrounding land community areas and places to and how this can benefit nearby areas, • infrastructure and engineering; and socialise, learn and relax. activate the Destination outside working • maritime technology, We envisage a new activated forecourt hours, position the Power Station at the may complement the knowledge-intensive that forms part of the Bays Waterfront heart of The Bays Precinct, and draw on industries of White Bay Power Station Promenade, linking White Bay Power international examples that have returned with the potential to spur export-focussed Station to White Bay, Balmain and the industrial spaces to their cities. entrepreneurship and support the growth CBD. Possibly for the first time, the A global and regional destination within of Sydney’s future generations and the landmark buildings and chimneys could the Asia-Pacific that co-locates research, New South Wales economy. offer visitors and workers access to business, education, science, academia, views across the Harbour to the CBD. technology and start-up incubators We aspire to create the southern to drive global competitiveness and hemisphere’s first dynamic knowledge innovation is part of our vision for and innovation hub. Good planning, “Global vision, local win” The Bays Precinct. combined with smart public and private – Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group sector-led initiatives and contributions, talent and embracing opportunities will bring this vision to reality.

27 October 2015 Decay to Destination: The global examples that will inspire the transformation of White Bay Power Station and surrounds

London’s Battersea Power Station will be a new global urban destination for Londoners and visitors. At 92 hectares on the banks of the Thames, it is intended to supply land for 26,000 jobs, a new hotel, 3,500 homes, and a riverside walkway linking to the 200- acre Battersea Park.

Roosevelt Island in New York exemplifies 60 hectares of land regeneration by connecting industry with curriculum and research, potentially creating 8,000 new jobs and a new applied sciences and engineering campus that will catalyse entrepreneurship and business.

Toronto Waterfront will position Toronto for the intense urban competition and realities of the 21st Century and includes 800 hectares of land with 46 kilometres of waterfront.

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 28 Priority: Immediate Destination: Bays Market District

29 October 2015 Priority: Immediate

OBJECTIVE To rejuvenate the Sydney Fish Market (wholesale and retail), and expand the fresh food offering, creating a world- class Bays Market District connected to the water. Features • Creating a new world-class market food offering and dining attraction • Reimagining the Sydney Fish Market, including wholesale and retail functions • Allowing the Bays Waterfront Promenade to seamlessly connect with a bustling and thriving place that brings residents and visitors back to the water • Providing compatible housing suitable to living on the edge of the CBD • Improving access and public transport

One of the emerging global trends in the 21st Century world of food is a return to the basics – friendly, community-based farmers’ markets. In Sydney, there are already many weekly produce markets and it is envisioned that the Bays Market District will become a global exemplar market offering.

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The Bays Market District will widen The Bays Market District will generate The Bays Market District will provide an Sydney’s food and dining offering. Our significant improvements to access and opportunity for the public to understand, ambition is to create a new world-class public transport as well as environmental experience and interact with the business food and dining attraction for Sydney – in activity and better connections with of catching, auctioning and selling fish the way that Borough Markets in London Blackwattle Bay and Wentworth Park. and other fresh produce. and La Boqueria in Barcelona attract day- The renewed Sydney Fish Market will Sitting at Blackwattle Bay, where the to- day shoppers as well as tourists. It will be supported by a new expanded fresh working city meets the living city on the draw on the activity and spirit of both the food marketplace – a community and western edge of inner city Pyrmont and wholesale and retail operations at Sydney economic hub for Sydney’s fresh food the northern edge of suburban Glebe, the Fish Market. industry. Just as the seasons and the Bays Market District will be a busy hub A rejuvenated Sydney Fish Market will produce will change, so too could this for residents, workers and visitors. The be the centrepiece of the Bays Market part of the Bays Market District – we diverse offering will include permanent District. As the largest market of its kind could think about a semi-permanent restaurants, markets and seafood and in the southern hemisphere and already market like Marché Monge in Paris that other suppliers and combine this with visited by more than 2.5 million people uses purpose-designed structures to ‘pop-ups’ served from “food trucks, every year, the Sydney Fish Market wants set up a market of quality providores vessels or containers” and outdoor to double visitor numbers over the next a few days a week. events to showcase Australian cuisine. 10 years – an aspiration that could deliver more than $4 billion to the NSW economy.

31 October 2015 October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 32 Priority: Immediate Destination: Wentworth Park

33 October 2015 Priority: Immediate

OBJECTIVE To seamlessly integrate Wentworth Park with the Bays Market District and surrounds. Features • Commencing 2016 • Providing a new type of shared, activated public space for people to gather, socialise and interact • Improving recreation and sporting facilities • Taking advantage of stronger open space connections to the Bays Market District • Improving visual and physical connectivity to the Bays Market District and the water

The feedback we’ve received throughout 2015 has made it clear that The Bays Precinct Transformation Program offers an opportunity to seamlessly integrate Wentworth Park with the Bays Market District, creating lovely connections from green open space to the new fresh food marketplace. We could retain the land in public ownership and provide a new type of shared, activated public space as well as improve sporting and recreational facilities for people to gather, socialise and interact.

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The transformation of The Bays Precinct provides the opportunity to turbo-charge Sydney’s economy, delivering new public spaces; jobs and employment opportunities; and housing, including affordable housing, on the edge of the Sydney CBD.

The Bays Precinct is being planned as a resilient and sustainable place that A new destination for New global attractions builds on its history and delivers a global knowledge-intensive jobs The transformation of The Bays Precinct exemplar in the achievement of social, will create new places to attract people cultural and environmental benefits. The Bays Precinct will provide the space for new jobs in world-class knowledge- from all over the world. Guided by the UrbanGrowth NSW: City intensive industries, as well as academic The waterfront Bays Market District, Transformation Life Cycle™, The Bays institutions and start-up businesses. incorporating the Sydney Fish Market, Precinct Urban Transformation Program It could be a hub for creativity and will be a world-class “foodie” destination. will include every aspect of how a place innovation in medical research, science, Rivalling the world’s best markets, the should and could be, and what a place engineering, education and tourism, District could open up opportunities for can provide for the people who live, work while also retaining its traditional restaurants, cafes, bars; gardens and and visit there. maritime industries. active green spaces; and attractive places Our plans will be guided by the knowledge A clear focus on The Bays Precinct’s to showcase Australian produce and we gain from ongoing stakeholder employment potential represents a dining to the world. participation, and the unique outcomes different approach to usual – traditionally, Winding its way from one end of The Bays of the Call for Great Ideas, as well as the development of a site of this size is Precinct to the other, the Bays Waterfront a global, ten-year alliance of local and driven by residential land uses; instead, Promenade will be more than just a international experts that was forged at The Bays Precinct will be prioritised for waterside footpath. It could be filled with the International Summit in 2014. jobs for the future, especially as it sits so activity, events and places to relax, linking close to CBD. It will be supported by the to a new plaza around the White Bay appropriate mix of residential and other Power Station, the defining landmark of uses, integrated in a way that creates The Bays Precinct, and a new must-see lively and attractive new communities. destination for Sydney.

45 October 2015 Connecting to the water, Outstanding and Celebrating a rich the CBD and beyond diverse design sense of history People moving around The Bays Precinct As The Bays Precinct evolves, cutting-edge From the early trading of the clans of the or into the Sydney CBD and surrounding design principles could create a new type Eora Nation, to the maritime trade of the suburbs should be able to choose the of neighbourhood for Sydney. We don’t European settlers, The Bays Precinct is rich type of transport to best suit their needs. want to see a one-size-fits-all approach in history and we will draw on this heritage Walking and cycling paths would be a in The Bays Precinct – we want to see as we plan for The Bays Precinct’s future. safe way to get active, and higher-capacity an array of housing designs; imaginative This could be a place where visitors, transport options could allow larger and sustainable buildings and structures; residents and workers feel The Bays numbers of people to live, work and visit and safe, leafy outdoor spaces to support Precinct’s history in every Destination. The Bays Precinct, supporting its future healthy lifestyles. This inspiring built We would do this by drawing on the competitiveness. Ultimately, we want The form would underpin The Bays Precinct’s highest design and development Bays Precinct to be a place where you appeal to tourists, employers, residents standards to appropriately treat and have many more options than a car. and local visitors. incorporate The Bays Precinct’s history. In keeping with the idea of a connected We will use an open and transparent city where you can access some type procurement model to involve a variety of of public transport or the services and designers, landscapers and developers in facilities you need within a short walk, the development and treatment of each our transport and mobility program Destination, so that building types and should think about every aspect of structures show diversity and difference moving to, from and within The Bays within and between Destinations. Precinct: walking, cycling, all forms of public transport (ferries, buses and light and heavy rail), driving and freight movements.

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 46 Digital connections Thriving public Culturally rich and In a future of knowledge-intensive spaces and places vibrant places and industries and workers, The Bays Precinct New places for events and gatherings, spaces should run on a world-class digital including around the Bays Market District Sydney is home to many cultural facilities platform. Digital connections would be and White Bay Power Station, will be the ‘amplifiers’ of human capacity, allowing that attract people from all over the world type of places that make people feel like and that contribute to a real sense of place. instant access to markets, collaborations, they ‘belong’ – they would be open to social forums and offering new ways to Culturally rich and vibrant places could be everyone, no matter their background, created within The Bays Precinct to: deliver health and education services. age or status. These places would be A transformed Bays Precinct with linked by safe walking and cycling links. • celebrate local culture and local identity ‘digital inclusion’ at its heart would The Bays Precinct could be home to a create connections to boost economic calendar of new experiences, activities • acknowledge both Aboriginal and productivity and efficiency. This could and celebrations that invite participation European heritage be the catalyst for a place that exports – imagine Vivid on The Bays, for example, • adaptively re-use heritage assets lifestyle, learning and jobs to the world. or a new place to enjoy the New Year’s Visitors and residents could also have Eve fireworks or the Australia Day ferry • invest in arts, cultural and creative access to connections to help them race. And, just as our open spaces and learning facilities share, learn and collaborate. People and places will be fun and activated, there • host or support events communities would feel empowered in a could also be quiet zones to ‘wilfully future that experts believe will be shaped disconnect’ and relax. • explore options for temporary and by digital connections and collaborations. longer-term activation projects (‘meanwhile uses’) • encourage and support creative and innovative businesses and start-ups.

47 October 2015 Diversity of housing The transformation of The Bays Precinct could become a global exemplar that tests new parameters in housing types, how housing is delivered, and what kind of innovative models can deliver new housing choices. This could bring a true diversity of housing to The Bays Precinct, providing a high quality of life for people from all income levels, people at various stages of their lives, people of all abilities and people from a range of household types. Housing would be designed to suit The Bays Precinct as a knowledge- intensive destination that attracts and retains workers, investors, students and entrepreneurs. The subsequent diversity in the people who live and work in The Bays Precinct could help to give these compact, mixed- used neighbourhoods an inclusive, intimate, cosmopolitan atmosphere. LIFELONG learning environmental, Trade, tourism Lifelong learning is critical to being ecological and and investment competitive in the global knowledge energy solutions economy, so in equipping The Bays Making The Bays Precinct a destination The transformation of The Bays Precinct for investment capital, innovation and Precinct to be part of knowledge economy, it is imperative that we also could present a model for world- tourism will benefit all of those who leading sustainable development, with interact with The Bays Precinct – from the equip the people who will live and work there to fully participate. A lifelong consideration of strategies at both a occasional visitor, to the business owner, precinct-wide scale and destination scale. nearby resident, or the new household learning framework encompasses that comes to call the Precinct home. opportunities for learning and the The transformation should also ensure application of knowledge throughout a sustainable co-existence between This requires a mix of effort right across one’s lifetime and in different learning the natural and built environments. the Life Cycle – a need to allow The Bays environments. These efforts will create visible and Precinct to evolve and mature while also: We could consider a Sydney Institute of accessible green space networks – parks, • encouraging economic and Ideas to deliver a totally new dimension gardens, landscaping, trees that will cultural clusters to lifelong learning – some kind of place encourage the return of native wildlife. that acts as a forum to generate thinking, Our environmental, ecological and energy • shaping social, digital and economic creativity and intelligence, providing solutions will include: connections with the existing CBD opportunities for everyday learning, and beyond • protecting natural landscapes and creative expression, vocational and employing the most appropriate • maximising the ‘value proposition’ experiential learning, ethical community mechanisms to protect biodiversity of The Bays Precinct leadership and service, as well as formal education. • providing access to and an • creating mixed-use walkable appreciation of natural areas neighbourhoods and active spaces including the land areas and marine that attract global talent and areas of Sydney Harbour and beyond domestic and overseas visitors. • encouraging local food production • implementing renewable energy solutions.

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 48 A maritime playground Sydney has one of the best climates in the world and the transformation will take advantage of this. As the water quality throughout The Bays Precinct improves, opportunities could open for more people to get out onto to the water. The Bays Precinct’s waterways should be safe, accessible and attractive to everyone. As the Bays Waterfront Promenade develops, new watercraft ramps, safe and open foreshore edges, piers and wharves will promote the water as a space to connect people, just like its pathways and bikeways. For all on-water uses, from charter boats to recreational boat users, The Bays Precinct’s waterways could contribute to healthier, more active lifestyles and open up a whole new maritime playground for Sydneysiders. Public participation Transparent communication and genuine stakeholder engagement are fundamental to successful urban transformation. These concepts are embodied in the Statement of Principles that underpins the Transformation Plan. We are committed to engaging with stakeholders throughout the transformation. We will develop an engagement and communication program for each stage of the project and, as the transformation evolves, each stage will be informed by stakeholder feedback. We recognise that a strong and inclusive public engagement program is essential to achieving the project’s ambition and objectives. We’ll be clear about the purpose of engagement at each stage, identify shared goals and aspirations, be open and accountable in decision- making, listen and adapt as needed, and communicate about opportunities and constraints.

49 October 2015 October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 50 The Bays Precinct commitments

The delivery of The Bays Precinct, Sydney’s transformation includes commitments to focus implementation resources and instill accountability in the process. This is part of the transformation plan’s policy framework presented on Page 11.

Diverse and Socially Globally Competitive Connected Inclusive Catalyse knowledge-intensive, globally Create new places that blend with their Build on The Bays Precinct’s unique competitive industries that will attract neighbours, supported by physical, social history by creating a place that is diverse talent and create new jobs to help drive and digital infrastructure to achieve and socially inclusive and that contributes a prosperous and resilient economic optimal levels of connectivity, inclusivity to healthy, prosperous resilient lifestyles. future for the nation. Plan for future and productivity. generations by being open to new ideas • Deliver new community infrastructure • Achieve early activation through and embracing emerging trends. meanwhile uses to increase that supports whole-of-life community public accessibility • Provide workspaces for thousands of needs and healthy living potential new jobs in emerging and • Deliver new solutions that enable • Provide diverse housing (including knowledge-intensive sectors, including development potential, with a focus affordable housing) and ensure energy, education, health, technology on active and public transport high quality design and creative industries • Optimise waterway connections for • Undertake regular and ongoing • Support new enterprises through transport and recreation engagement with stakeholders incubator facilities • Plan for housing to be in close • Support the economic activities of proximity to public transport and maritime industries open space

51 October 2015 The Bays Precinct commitments

Heritage and Culture Built Environment Natural Environment Celebrate The Bays Precinct’s Ensure that the built environment Improve the quality of the environment authentic industrial, maritime and achieves leading-edge sustainability to increase biodiversity and recreation market-based history. standards, drawing on viable opportunities while being resilient to technologies to create well designed, the disruptive risks of climate change. • Restore and adaptively re-use the inviting and safe mixed-use places. White Bay Power Station • Develop a plan to increase the • Achieve carbon neutrality biodiversity of Blackwattle and • Regenerate the Bays Market District in operation Rozelle Bays, including mangrove including a new Sydney Fish Market development • Ensure all building design optimises • Work towards operationalising energy-efficient passive design • Ensure any work associated with Glebe Island Bridge for active and Glebe Island Bridge minimises public transport • Capture and recycle stormwater abutments to improve flushing on site • Integrate public art and • Prioritise the use of species cultural activities • Maximise black-water recycling indigenous to the locality • Divert 95 per cent of construction • Create a ‘green grid’ which integrates and 80 per cent of operational with surrounding open space corridors waste from landfill • Provide new and upgraded maritime • Provide 5.5 kilometres of continuous infrastructure for waterfront access public foreshore promenade and recreation on the water • Aim for all new public domain, • Create an integrated water quality urban, landscape and building management plan design to be endorsed by the new Design Directorate

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 52 Stakeholder 7 Engagement

We are committed to genuine and early The International Summit engagement throughout The Bays Precinct’s The Bays Precinct, Sydney International transformation. The foundations for the BAYS Summit in November 2014 brought Precinct were discussed and set through together local and international experts to discuss world-leading ideas for urban high-level principles generated at the transformation. The Summit generated International Summit in November 2014. This the Statement of Principles. was followed by a stakeholder and community engagement program from May to July 2015. Discovery Day Large areas of normally inaccessible waterfront land were opened to the public in April 2015 to give Sydneysiders a chance to see close up what The Bays Precinct is like today, and to learn about its past and its future. Around 25,000 Sydneysiders attended the full day of family activities and entertainment.

Discovery Day

53 October 2015 International Summit

Sydneysiders Summit and Workshop with Engagement Leadership Forums representative group with councils The Sydneysiders Summit and Leadership of Sydneysiders We held briefings and three joint Forums in May 2015 aimed to build A workshop with a random selection of workshops with the City of Sydney public knowledge, understanding and 140 people from Greater Sydney included and Leichhardt Municipal Councils. participation in The Bays Precinct’s a high representation of 18 to 25 year Two workshops focused on the Bays transformation. More than 1,200 people olds given the long-term nature of the Waterfront Promenade, and one attended across the four days to hear Transformation Program. The group focused on the Bays Market District. about our thinking and to share views shared their views on the future of and ideas. We heard from community The Bays Precinct. groups, local residents, school students, businesses and industry.

Sydneysiders Summit

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 54 This robust and fair process allowed us Feedback on the Consideration of to assemble the very best of ideas from Discussion Paper feedback and evaluation across Sydney, Australia and beyond. In addition to the feedback received of the Great Ideas The Call for Great Ideas will be separately published so that all Great Ideas can through the engagement events, people Submissions to the Call for Great Ideas be openly considered by the NSW also submitted their views through an were evaluated in July and August 2015. Government, community and industry online survey on the Transforming the An Independent Assessment Panel as the Destinations are progressed. Bays website, emailed their comments was chaired by the former Mayor of and submissions and posted in their Christchurch, Sir Bob Parker, who oversaw The evaluation of the Call for Great Ideas feedback and views on the UrbanGrowth the rebuilding of the city after the 2010- and the Discussion Paper feedback NSW Facebook page. The feedback on 2011 earthquake sequence. Dr Simon have informed this Transformation the Discussion Paper included more Longstaff AO, Executive Director of the Plan. For further details, refer to 4,000 comments or submissions. St James Ethics Centre, was appointed Consultation Report which is available as the Fairness Advisor. on UrbanGrowth NSW’s website. Call for Great Ideas The Panel assessed submissions after they The Call for Great Ideas was an were reviewed by a Community Advisory opportunity for everyone to submit Panel and a Technical Advisory Panel. The innovative ideas for the immediate Community Advisory Panel comprised priority Destinations in The Bays Precinct. local and Greater Sydney representatives. The Bays Precinct project team held The Technical Advisory Panel comprised briefings with the community, industry representatives of UrbanGrowth NSW and and universities on The Call for Great other State agencies. Ideas, including two workshops where an independent planner, architect and writer were available to assist people with preparing their submissions. We received 213 submissions.

Evaluation of The Great Ideas

55 October 2015 Ongoing involvement Our commitment to ongoing engagement throughout the Program will include engagement with Sydneysiders, councils, State agencies and other stakeholders. Our program includes a reference group that meets quarterly, open community forums (also held quarterly), site open days, online forums and other formal and informal events and activities.

Check our website for further information and to register for regular updates: www.thebayssydney.com.au

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 56 Towards a globally competitive 8 and resilient transformation

57 October 2015 A CITY’S RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY lies in its ability to endure ecological, social or market shocks without losing its sense of identity or enthusiasm.

The transformation of The Bays Precinct provides the opportunity for Sydney to become a model of how to create a globally competitive and resilient waterfront transformation. This section identifies the key components of the transformation, and, in particular, acts as a reference and guiding document for practitioners over the life of the Transformation Program. Recognising that standards, capabilities and expectations over the 20 to 30 years of the Program’s delivery will evolve, this section does not seek to be prescriptive – rather, it will be a living strategic document that outlines a high-level spatial planning framework for immediate, medium-term and longer- term use and activity.

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 58 8.1 Urban design and planning

It also demands evidence-based Under Goal 1, 1.1.3, A Plan for Growing Good planning and analysis of competing agendas and Sydney states that: “UrbanGrowth NSW urban design demands associated challenges such as population will lead the revitalisation of The Bays integration, coordination growth, infrastructure provision, housing Precinct as a world-class, iconic foreshore demand, employment and biodiversity. destination” and that: “The Bays Precinct and holistic thinking. Urban Transformation Program will The Transformation Plan: The Bays transform these currently underused It must consider both Precinct, Sydney recognises the primacy areas for the economic, cultural and of A Plan for Growing Sydney as a guiding present and future social benefit of Sydney and the state. The framework. In order to ensure planning Bays Precinct’s heritage values, proximity challenges to reflect and urban design for The Bays Precinct is to the city and foreshore position present the ambition, values, holistic and aligns with existing planning exciting new opportunities for residential, tools, we have developed a Strategic principles and aspirations retail and commercial development and Planning and Urban Design Framework. entertainment and leisure facilities. of stakeholders and It integrates policy, plans and actions Expanding the range of arts activities in with existing national, state, regional Sydneysiders. this precinct is also core to growing the and local strategic planning (refer to Cultural Ribbon activities”. Figure 5). A Plan for Growing Sydney has a goal to “Grow a more internationally competitive Sydney CBD” (Goal 1, Direction 1.1). This is inextricably linked to the policy framework for The Bays Precinct. A Plan for Growing Sydney also integrates with the NSW Long Term Transport Master Plan and Rebuilding NSW - State Infrastructure Strategy 2014. Integrated planning will guide the decisions about different land uses and the built environment, including public spaces. These integrated decisions will help us achieve The Bays Precinct’s objectives.

59 October 2015 Figure 5 Bays Precinct Planning and Urban Design Strategic Framework Process

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Pre-Discussion Paper: Bays Precinct, Sydney Framework planning Rezoning Development applications engagements and Transformation Plan; Public (structure) and approvals, and background work feedback: Call for Great construction Ideas and Discussion Paper

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 60 The Directorate will assess the evolution Urban design of the urban design as part of Destination Open Space How we design our built environment planning. It will also be a ‘sounding board’ shapes the way we live. The environment in the further assessment of Great Ideas. Detailed building and public domain “Great places are about what we create is more than just a shelter, people do in them, and how amenity and services – it can be a design will be addressed under site- reflection of our values and aspirations, specific development applications, and they feel, use and ‘own’ those and a driver and enabler of productivity will be subject to the relevant consent places [...] about personality, and prosperity. authority’s design review processes. The Directorate will have due regard destinations, activities, The UrbanGrowth NSW Design Directorate to national, state and local planning connections between people.” provides independent, strategic, expert, policies, relevant guidance documents – Fred Kent, Project for Public Spaces high-level advice and design direction to and this Transformation Plan. Ultimately, achieve design excellence and quality the aim of the Directorate is to support public domain, urban, landscape and UrbanGrowth NSW to create productive building design outcomes. It will also have and sustainable places for people. Public open space includes parkland, a coordination role to ensure seamless recreation and sport areas, conservation integrated land-water planning across Planning Pathway and natural areas, foreshore, linear parks, The Bays Precinct. It will consider how trails and paths. The provision of high opportunities, constraints and possible The Bays Precinct and its network of quality open space in The Bays Precinct impacts interrelate and will seek to Destinations need appropriate and will be key element of the transformation. improve the quality of strategies, places updated planning provisions within a While a certain quantity of open space and buildings for the benefit of the public. planning instrument that enables both is necessary to meet community needs, the implementation of the Transformation the quality of open space is equally Plan and ongoing detailed planning and important. Planning for open space decision making for Destinations. in The Bays Precinct will consider the current, future, regional and visitor It is anticipated that the future community and be based on projections transformation of The Bays Precinct will and participation trends. It will require be governed under the provisions of a a needs-based approach that looks at State Environmental Planning Policy. community needs and existing gaps in Detailed development controls will be the surrounding area, and will be driven prepared for each Destination through by the context of the site. collaboration between State agencies, A network of shared open spaces will councils and Sydneysiders. provide walking and cycling tracks, relaxation or contemplation spaces, places that encourage social interaction, pocket parks, fitness, indoor recreation, and parks designed for the young and old and those people living with disabilities. This is in line with current trends as shown in Figure 6.

61 October 2015 Figure 6 Getting active: How do people use open space?

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October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 62 The positive relationships between Public foreshore access someone’s proximity to “blue spaces” Given The Bays Precinct’s waterfront in coastal areas and their sense of location, the network of quality open wellbeing and self-reported health are space and parks must be interlinked with well documented. The Bays Precinct’s the extension of public foreshore access transformation can optimise value that will ultimately link Balmain to from its naturally beautiful harbour Pyrmont and beyond to Woolloomooloo. and inner urban city setting. This is a key NSW Government and community aspiration. UrbanGrowth NSW will work in collaboration with State agencies to integrate land and water planning.

The potential characteristics of the Bays Precinct foreshore:

An integral part of the flood Visual and physical links to A safe access route to and from protection solution to futureproof Sydney Harbour the waterfront and waterways, The Bays Precinct against the and along the waterfront effects of climate change A key connector to the surrounding areas and an integral linear open A place to experience heritage New, temporary and permanent space link such as the potential repurposing cultural and recreational of the Glebe Island Bridge experiences for everyone by suitably accommodating co-located and A catalyst to boost trade in various shared-use water and land-based Destinations along the Bays A reinforcement of varied infrastructure and utilities such as Waterfront Promenade and at foreshore character and increased ferry stops or jetties the land-water interface recreational and cultural activities

A continuous land-water space A link to green open space at White An ability to minimise potential including green shorelines and Bay, the Bays Market District, land-water conflicts living sea walls to enhance Wentworth Park, Rozelle Bay and biodiversity and improve Rozelle Rail Yards water quality

The provision of natural protection and aesthetics by planting endemic species that will adapt to rising sea levels and increased salinity from climate change

63 October 2015 We aim to set a benchmark for Blue Urbanism integrated land and water planning that The four bays within The Bays Precinct adopts national and international best have global, regional and local links practice. Planning in The Bays Precinct with boundaries that extend beyond the will fully integrate with waterways and immediate “place”. This includes an land-based place management. We will operating port at White Bay and Glebe balance multiple objectives and prevent Island, the Cruise Terminal, Sydney Fish use conflicts. We will seek to improve Market, superyachts at Rozelle Bay, marine ecology, marine water quality marine contractors and repair facilities, and develop a strategy to adapt to bridges spanning the waters, as well climate change. The transformation as other working, recreational and will be commensurate with relevant tourism-related harbour uses. These all NSW Government initiatives. add life and varied experiences to The Bays Precinct, and also create some challenges for the transformation.

October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 64 Waterfront development excellence and placEmaking checklist

The Bays Precinct waterfront land †† Is there a balance of maritime, public and surrounds require transformative Key Criteria: waterways use and activity and are elements and features that befit the “Sensitivity of the design conflicts minimised? Sydney Harbour location. Water adds 2 to water” †† Is there “a diversity of uses from value and creates amazing opportunities passive public parks to vibrant not available on other development sites. †† Does the development use the attractions”?1 Excellence on the waterfront will be a “water” itself to draw attention to the principle against which all development greatest asset of the Sydney Harbour †† Has the authenticity been retained will be assessed. waterfront location and add value? and areas not become “too clean” and sterile at the expense of This checklist provides the opportunity †† Does it provide “active public 2 waterfront uses? to progress the ambition for The Bays enjoyment of the waterfront” and respond to the land-water character? Precinct and prompts consideration of Environmental excellence quantifiable aspects. If we can answer †† Do developments connect physically and resilience “YES” to thinking about and addressing and psychologically to the water and †† Are there highlighted environmental criteria then we are on the correct path to minimise walls to the waterfront? values? Has thinking on resilience achieving a benchmark transformation. “Quality and harmony of design”2 been applied? †† Do the buildings harmonise, Civic, heritage, cultural and contribute to and enhance the setting educational contribution in which they sit be they natural or man-made? †† Are creative amenities, public art and temporary uses proposed for people’s †† If the site is appropriate for an iconic comfort and enjoyment and social building, then does it serve a variety of interaction? functions rather than just being one- dimensional? Is it a good neighbour? †† Is local identity showcased by making the most of history, culture to create †† Are the three-dimensional aspects of a unique sense of place, experiences, “space” considered to achieve spatial richness and community togetherness optimisation, rationalisation, flexibility around the waterfront? and co-location on prime inner city waterfront land? (for example, †† Is equity fundamental? Will people of parks, infrastructure, bridges, paths all incomes, ages and cultures feel connecting the ‘green grid’, shared welcome? use facilities) †† Is the “dynamism of the private sector, the stewardship of public agencies Balanced mix of land-water and the energy of the community use and activity captured”?1 †† Is there a mix of public and private Sourced from: uses integrated and is excessive privatisation avoided? 1 The Waterfront Centre, Washington The Urban Waterfront Manifesto, †† Is there a balance of residential 2 The Waterfront Centre, Washington, The uses in Destinations and surrounds Excellence on the Waterfront Awards criteria that are compatible? Is residential 3 The Project for Public Spaces 10 Qualities development not dominating? of Great Waterfront Destinations

65 October 2015 Heritage, cultural and creative amenity

The Bays Precinct may cluster small Guidance to generate a “sense of place” Heritage, cultural and and large-scale cultural amenity to in the Destinations (see Figure 7) will creative amenity create a series of “creative places, consider: where connected public places engage 1 existing activity in areas to capitalise Authentic integration of cultural and communities through a diversity of on existing cultural assets in area creative amenity for residents and cultural experiences that can be from the onset of the transformation visitors is an important element of leveraged through tourism efforts, major urban developments. enhanced with the right business and 2 creativity in the public domain The Bays Precinct includes heritage retail mix along the route, and made more including temporary, unplanned items with both local and State legible through coordinated way-finding and special event use and urban design” (City of Sydney). significance including the White Bay 3 the importance of co-located cultural Power Station, Glebe Island Bridge Different types of experiences and the and commercial activities and Glebe Island silos. fusion of elements is what creates a 4 the fine grain activity that creates “Sense of Place”. What does this mean? Innovation, conservation and unexpected experiences in city living interpretation will be applied to the other It is an approach to environmental land-based and maritime heritage to perception, cognition and place-making 5 new large-scale cultural infrastructure (Stephens Planning and Design). ascertain socio-economic value from 6 spaces for participatory activity by these assets. the public.

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October 2015 Transformation plan: The Bays Precinct Sydney 66 8.2 Living in The Bays Precinct

Good planning should address safety, supply of diverse and affordable Creating communities surveillance and privacy through urban housing to meet the requirements of The Transformation Plan envisages a design and building orientation providing The Bays Precinct will be implemented socially-mixed and diverse population public surveillance of public places and via a Bays Precinct Housing Diversity base that is seamlessly integrated recreational spaces while ensuring visual and Affordability Strategy. and acoustic privacy for residents. within the Destinations. The Strategy will consider: Good planning should also consider We will require innovation through quality • local household demand design in the form of medium and higher the Sydney Harbour waterfront context density living areas. This is especially and transformation benefits for existing • housing stock supply and future communities extending way important given The Bays Precinct’s city • income data location, its proximity to planned major beyond The Bays Precinct’s immediate infrastructure and transport systems, boundaries. • household projections. as well as the public and private capital This information will direct the possible investment that is needed to bring the supply and mix of housing responses to ambition to reality. Housing choice contribute to housing diversity in The Bays New Destinations with a balance of We need to produce more housing if we Precinct. It will identify mechanisms to mixed uses, interrelated with their are to accommodate the needs of the leverage the private sector, community history, public realm, the public transport community, with projections in The City of and government partnerships to enhance network and focal areas of activity, will Sydney and Leichhardt Municipal Council delivery, development and ongoing help to stimulate redevelopment with local government areas (LGAs) indicating management. opportunities for unique contemporary demand for an additional 59,650 communities, distinctive characteristics dwellings over the 20 years to 2031. and connections to evolve. A structured approach to maximise the

67 October 2015 A snapshot of housing availability and suitability

Availability Suitability The City of Sydney LGA has an implied an additional 5,950 dwellings which In 2011 the housing stock in both LGAs dwelling projection between 2011 and represents a 23 per cent increase included less studios and one bedroom 2031 of 53,700 additional dwellings; on 2011 stock (source: Department apartments than the number of one or this is a 53 per cent increase on 2011 of Planning and Environment (DP&E) two person households would suggest stock. During the same time period NSW and LGA Population, Housing and are needed as shown in Figure 8. the Leichhardt LGA projection is for Dwelling Projection: 2014 Final).

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UrbanGrowth NSW would About UrbanGrowth NSW like to thank all those UrbanGrowth NSW is the NSW who have participated in Government’s city transformation agency. the development of this We have a mandate from the NSW Government to deliver the Major Urban Transformation Plan by Transformation Portfolio. We will do this contributing their ideas by working collaboratively with other parts of government, the private sector and feedback, including and community stakeholders to plan through: and coordinate delivery of city transformation projects. • The Bays Precinct, Sydney Five imperatives drive and direct International Summit our activities. These are to: November 2014 1 Increase the supply of housing • The Bays Precinct Sydneysiders and create jobs Summit and Leadership Forums May 2015 2 Strengthen the NSW economy by delivering world-class centres • The Call for Great Ideas that attract investment and boost May 2015 productivity 3 Maximise public investment in infrastructure 4 Operate on a commercially astute basis 5 Promote collaboration across government, the private sector, community and industry. UrbanGrowth NSW has been appointed by the NSW Government as the agency to lead the transformation of The Bays Precinct.

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