Pemulwuy Consultation Project update Sydney Festival previews page 9 THE REVIEW – pages 11-14 NUMBER NINETY-NINE DECEMBER ’11 CIRCULATION 22,000 ALEXANDRIA BEACONSFIELD CHIPPENDALE DARLINGTON ERSKINEVILLE EVELEIGH GLEBE KINGS CROSS NEWTOWN REDFERN SURRY HILLS WATERLOO WOOLLOOMOOLOO ZETLAND Australia’s first low-carbon community Artist’s impression of Green Square Town Square Image: Supplied Ann A Christie first low-carbon community,” said the will revolutionise local area environmental The Lord Mayor emphasised that local school, Waterloo Public School, is no Lord Mayor. sustainability in Australia. environmental sustainability was not the longer a comprehensive local school, but a City of Sydney Council has launched Tri-generation, a form of power using In addition to cutting carbon emissions, only concern, saying that aesthetic and special school for children with disabilities. the Green Square project, with Lord natural gas rather than coal, is so-called City of Sydney has an ambitious usability factors were also highly valued. No land has been set aside for a school. Mayor Clover Moore announcing the because it yields power, hot water and stormwater management plan to provide She wants Green Square to set “new design Council depends on the Department of $8 billion development as “bigger than cooling. 100 per cent of the area’s non-potable benchmarks” and achieve “beautiful Education to supply reliable projections Barangaroo” and the largest urban The first stage of the high-density mixed water needs. Shea’s Creek, a stormwater design and beautiful facilities”. about the demand for more schools, in development in Australia. residential, business and community channel that comes from Randwick and Although Green Square has an keeping with the increased population. infrastructure will be to construct a Kensington, will be filtered and the water underground railway station just one City of Sydney has provided updated Flanked by senior officials from 14-hectare Green Square Town Centre, accessed. stop from Central, this will need to be statistics to inform the discussions and Operations, Planning and Sustainability featuring a civic square the size of Martin All buildings will be designed to meet augmented to serve the new community. projections. John Dwyer, Senior Program divisions of Council, the Lord Mayor Place between George Street and Pitt Street. new standards so that they will fulfil the The new Government department, Manager, said that the “City is making the announced the start of the first phase of The heritage administration building at the City of Sydney 2030 sustainability goals. Transport for NSW, says it is investigating point very strongly” that the Department the Green Square redevelopment. South Sydney hospital site will form the There is even a feasibility study into the feasibility of extending light rail has to get it right. Green Square includes the suburbs of heart of the tri-generation operations and ducted waste disposal under the streets, through the CBD, to the University of NSW The Green Square redevelopment will Alexandria, Beaconsfield, Rosebery and an environmental education centre. thus doing away with rubbish trucks. and to the University of Sydney as part of take over a decade to build, with private Zetland. Unlike Barangaroo, Green Square By the end of 2013 the first community This technology uses suction through a transport “Masterplan” for NSW. building construction continuing up until has been planned to be among the most facilities in the Town Square will be a subterranean network. Sounds like 9,300 workers and 5,800 residents are 2024 and full occupation by 2031. sustainable, and one of very few natural completed and environmental technologies science fiction? From what Council projected in the Town Centre alone. City of Sydney will be involving the gas tri-generation powered communities, are expected to be installed. City of says, this aspect of innovation is not as A proportion of those residents will community in naming parks, streets in Australia. Sydney is taking advantage of this rare strongly advanced as the others, but still have children, but no schools have been and public places, including new streets “We want Green Square to be Australia’s opportunity to build infrastructure that a possibility. incorporated into the plans. The existing and malls. S 2 NEWS December 2011 PUBLISHER South Sydney Uniting Church Raglan Street, Waterloo Phone/fax 02 9319 1373 The views expressed in this newspaper are Cranial those of the author and the article and are not necessarily the views of the Uniting Church. 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