Draft Granville Place Plan Draft Granville Place Plan City of Parramatta
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Draft Granville Place Plan Draft Granville Place Plan City of Parramatta Executive Summary DRAFT Draft Granville Place Plan Overview What is Place Making? What is a Place Plan? The City of Parramatta Place Plans summarise and Place Plans are live defines place making as: prioritise the local needs documents, informed by of an area, including, but community consultation, ‘A multi-faceted approach to not limited to infrastructure desktop research, data the planning, design, delivery requirements, quality and analysis, and City of and ongoing management of type of amenities, retail mix Parramatta’s strategic spaces for the public. As part and open space requirements documents, along with of this approach, Place Making to ensure that a place is other State and Regional uncovers the needs and desires sustainable and thriving into Plans. Place Plans differ of key stakeholders, champions the future. from conventional planning the retention and celebration instruments such as of elements of value and looks Place Plans articulate zoning maps because to implement ways to improve the character of an area, they incorporate a multi- the function and emotional its history, heritage and disciplinary approach, connection to the place for its natural assets, its economic, inviting participation from users.’ environmental, social and those with broad disciplinary aesthetic aspirations. It sets backgrounds and interests. The City of Parramatta has objectives and determines They also consolidate a a dedicated Place Services actionable items. Place Plans variety of hard and soft team to implement place might also prescribe the infrastructure, short term making projects throughout location or preservation of and long-term actions to the Local Government AreaDRAFT landmarks, the establishment determine the vision for a (LGA) across various scales. of thematic units for districts, Place. or the creation or clarification of nodal points. 3 City of Parramatta Strategic direction for the development of the Place What is the purpose of a Plans Place Plan? The Local Government The Place Plan will Ultimately, Place Plans will Act (Integrated Planning & provide guidance to City provide: Reporting), stipulates that of Parramatta’s Place local councils produce a Services team, as well as ▷ A means of prioritising Delivery Program in which other relevant internal and place-related actions they allocate priority to the external stakeholders whose identified in Council objectives of the Community responsibility sees them strategies to better Strategic Plan. The Delivery making decision that effect a manage resources and Program is the primary current or future community. funding streams. accountability mechanism These plans provide ▷ A process to ensure that establishes what Council background analysis of the that the character will deliver, as well as how ‘place’ in question, as well and critical-to-quality and when. as a vision to aid in decision elements specific to a making. Place are quantified and City of Parramatta’s Delivery leveraged to inform the Program and Operational design and delivery of Plan (right) has identified the Council-led assets and following deliverables: upgrades. ▷ 5.3.1.3 Development of DRAFTa ▷ A coordinated response DRAFT Neighbourhood Cultural and customer- Masterplan to reflect focused approach the cultural aspirations, to the upgrade and distinctive identities and transformation of needs of our broader precincts within the communities. Parramatta local ▷ 5.3.1.4 Develop a government area, in line community-led with community needs Neighbourhood Policy and aspirations. and Place Plans to inform local service and project delivery. 4 Draft Granville Place Plan Objectives ▷ Develop a consolidated document which captures all Place related strategic directions within the selected precinct ▷ Influence Development Control Plan (DCPs) and future development ▷ Create a live document informed by consultation and qualitative Place measures ▷ Convey the role and responsibility of Place Services - a crucial conduit between the strategic direction and DRAFT delivery of Council-ledDRAFT projects ▷ Establish an actionable five (5) year vision for the selected precinct ▷ Determine specific goals that can translate to tangible KPIs for Place Services. City of Parramatta Methodology The focus precincts for the Within the Parramatta Place Plans are guided by Central Business District This Place Plan will the growth precincts outlined (CBD), additional Place consolidate advice from in the Greater Sydney Plans will also be created. strategies relevant specifically Commission’s The Greater While the area included in to Granville from Council’s Sydney Region Plan - A these plans is hyper-local, suite of strategic documents Metropolis of Three Cities they are areas experiencing and external strategies and Council’s Community significant change through developed by NSW State Infrastructure Strategy. the provision of new assets Government and associated and infrastructure. bodies. Across the LGA, these precincts were chosen Precincts selected for the It will also use desktop because they have been suite of CBD Place Plans may research and site analysis targeted as areas that will not house residents, but they to provide demographic, experience notable change, will become Places of high geographic and historical with significantly increased foot traffic and visitation, context to the suburb and the populations. The ability to with district attractions and community. shape the future state of anchor uses that support these areas is enhanced employment opportunities Finally it will make use of because of the level of or access to employment community consultation and change that is occuring. centres. These precincts external quantitative datasets include: to determine the current High Growth Precincts character of the precinct, DRAFT▷ Parramatta Square DRAFT what the community values ▷ Epping/Carlingford (Place Plan in progress) and to build the vision for the ▷ Rydalmere ▷ Riverside Precinct next 5 years. An action plan to guide Council place-based ▷ GPOP (Greater ▷ Museum of Art and activities and work plans for Parramatta to Olympic Applied Sciences (MAAS) the next 3 plus years will also Peninsula) ▷ Church Street (North be developed. ▷ Ermington and South) ▷ Telopea, and ▷ University area (WSU). ▷ Granville. 6 Draft Granville Place Plan City of Parramatta Parramatta Council CBD DRAFT DRAFTCumberland Granville City Council 7 City of Parramatta Alongside independent site investigations and supporting technical studies, an array of secondary data has been leveraged to inform the findings of the draft Granville Place Plan. These sources include: City of Parramatta Council Strategic Documents Community Strategic Plan Delivery Program Community Infrastructure Draft Local Housing 2018 - 2038 2018 - 2021 Strategy 2019 Strategy 2019 DRAFT DRAFT Local Strategic Planning Parramatta Night City Economic Development Environmental Statement (LSPS) City Framework 2020 - 2024 Plan 2017 - 2021 Sustainability Strategy Plan 2036 2017 8 Draft Granville Place Plan Public Domain Guidelines Reconciliation Action Plan Disability Inclusion Action Parramatta Ways Walking 2017 (RAP) 2017 - 2020 Plan 2017 - 2021 Strategy 2017 DRAFT DRAFT Socially Sustainable Cultural Plan 2017-2022 Parramatta Bike Plan Draft Industrial Lands Parramatta Framework 2017 - 2037 Strategy 2020 2017 9 City of Parramatta External Strategic Documents BETTER PLACED An integrated design policy for the built environment of New South Wales Better Placed, Greener Places (Draft for Aligning Movement Local Character and Government Architect New discussion), Government and Place, Government Place Guidence, NSW South Wales (May 2017) Architect New South Wales Architect New South Department of Planning (November 2017) Wales (June 2019) and Environment (February 2019) OUR GREATER SYDNEY 2056 GREATER SYDNEY REGION PLAN Central City Parramatta Light Rail (Stage 1) A Metropolis A Metropolis Westmead to Carlingford via Parramatta CBD and Camellia District Plan State Significant Infrastructure of Three Cities – connecting communities that Works Application Report – connecting people DRAFT March 2018 March 2018 Thought Leadership Updated Series: TLP 2018–1 October 2018 February 2017 Greater Sydney Regional Central City District A Metropolis that Parramatta Light Rail Plan: A Metropolis of Plan, Greater Sydney Works, Greater Sydney (Stage 1) State Significant Three Cties, Greater Commission (March 2018) Commission (October Infrastructure Application Sydney Commission 2018) Report, Transport fo NSW (March 2018) (February 2017) 10 Draft Granville Place Plan Place Plan Development Process Diagram BETTER PLACED An integrated design policy for the built environment of New South Wales Parramatta Light Rail (Stage 1) Westmead to Carlingford via Parramatta CBD and Camellia State Significant Infrastructure Application Report A Metropolis that Works February 2017 OUR GREATER SYDNEY 2056 Central City District Plan – connecting communities October 2018 Thought Leadership Series: TLP 2018–1 GREATER SYDNEY REGION PLAN A Metropolis March 2018 of Three Cities – connecting people Consolidate March 2018 Updated Desktop research Site analysis Consultation DRAFT Visioning Annual Report 11 City of Parramatta DRAFT DRAFT Draft Granville Place Plan Place Services Who are Place Services? This helps to leverage our insights and experience Place Services comprises a and the feedback of others multidisciplinary team of to iteratively shape the