Urbis, 2016, Sydney Strategic Centres
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Sydney Strategic Centres Barriers to Growth This publication was prepared for the NSW Department of Planning and Environment for the purpose of district planning. No representation is made about the accuracy, completeness or suitability of the information in this document for any particular purpose nor should it be assumed that the contents of the document represent the views of the NSW Government. The NSW Government its agents, consultants or employees shall not be liable for any damage which may occur to anyX person or organisation taking action or not on the basis of this publication. Readers should seek appropriate advice X when applying the information to their specific needs. This document may be subject to revision without notice. - URBIS STAFF RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS REPORT WERE: Director Princess Ventura and David Hoy Associate Director Kylie Newcombe, Michael Grosvenor and Alison Brown Senior Consultant Ryan McKenzie Consultant Stuart Gardner Analyst Audrey Marsh Job Code SPE0524 Date February 2016 © Urbis Pty Ltd ABN 50 105 256 228 All Rights Reserved. No material may be reproduced without prior permission. You must read the important disclaimer appearing within the body of this report. URBIS Australia Asia Middle East urbis.com.au TABLE OF CONTENTS Study Objectives .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Element 1: Document Review and Baseline Research .................................................................................................................................. 4 Element 2: Field Work .................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Element 3: Market Sounding .......................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Element 4: Consulting Government ............................................................................................................................................................... 4 Element 5: GIS Analysis ................................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Element 6: Town Planning Assessment ......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Element 7: Urban Design Assessment ........................................................................................................................................................... 5 Report Structure ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Key Themes ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 7 Centre Profiles ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 1. Bondi Junction ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 2. Burwood .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 16 3. Chatswood ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 22 4. Green Square .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 28 URBIS TOC WITH PROFILES TABLE OF CONTENTS 5. Bankstown ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 34 6. Hurstville .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 40 7. Kogarah ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 48 8. Sutherland ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 54 9. Marsden Park .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 60 10. Mount Druitt ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 66 11. Penrith Regional City ............................................................................................................................................................................. 72 12. Penrith Education & Health .................................................................................................................................................................... 78 13. Bankstown Airport - Milperra .................................................................................................................................................................. 84 14. Sydney Airport Precinct .......................................................................................................................................................................... 90 15. Port Botany Precinct .............................................................................................................................................................................. 96 16. Randwick Education & Health .............................................................................................................................................................. 102 Disclaimer ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 108 Appendix A .............................................................................................................................................................................. Acknowledgements URBIS TOC WITH PROFILES STUDY OBJECTIVES The NSW Department of Planning and Environment (DP&E) is now in commercial (office, business and retail), civic and cultural uses; the process of preparing subregional plans that will manage growth government services; and higher density housing. They are and articulate A Plan for Growing Sydney at the subregional level to typically on the passenger rail network or serviced by other high inform the preparation of Local Environmental Plans. frequency public transport. Centres typically contain at least 10,000 jobs, with the potential to accommodate ongoing jobs Urbis has been commissioned by the DP&E to provide detailed growth over the long-term. They are priority locations for insights into the following: employment and retail activity.’ . Specific barriers to economic growth for each centre that is Transport Gateways are defined in A Plan for Growing Sydney as: supported by more detailed evidence and research ‘Locations with major ports or airports, and their surrounding precincts. They perform an essential and ongoing role to connect . Document centre specific actions identified in consultation with Sydney with locations across Australia and the world. Transport local councils, property developers, businesses and other gateways are vital to Sydney’s prosperity and often support large stakeholders to facilitate potential investments and promote concentrations of complementary business activity and business activity in each centre and the subregion. employment.’ Sutherland and Mount Druitt were investigated as part of this barriers STUDY METHODOLOGY to growth work to progress an understanding of these centres. This section describes our approach and scope of work to assist the A separate consultancy commissioned by the Department of DP&E address the key study objectives described above. Planning and Environment investigated Sydney’s 13 other strategic centres as well as two centres in the North, West Central Table 1 and Map 1 show the 11 centres and three transport and South West subregions. gateways that were covered as well as two centres Sutherland and Mount Druitt which are located across five subregions of Central, As shown in Table 1, while centres are characterised as strategic West Central, West, North and South. centres or transport gateways, there