BAIRNSDALE MASTERPLAN Public Realm Works, Priorities and Costs SHUTTLE Volume 2

RE-IMAGINE CONNECT ENJOY Transform and realise People and places Diverse community opportunities and commerce M I T C H E RE-IMAGINING L L BAIRNSDALE MASTERPLAN PUBLIC REALM WORKS, PRIORITIES AND COsts SHUTTLE VOLUME 2 MALL POP UP CRAFT NEWS i SEE EAT OUTDOOR DO CINEMA MARKET ACKNOWleDGements CONTENTS This document has been prepared under the PART 1 PART 2 guidance of key stakeholders representing the THE MASTErplAN 3 KEY PROJECTS 16 East Gippsland Shire Council, the Bairnsdale CBD The Aims of the Masterplan 3 Nicholson Street Mall 17 reference group, community representatives, Design aims 17 local traders and business representatives. It has The Structure of the Masterplan, Indicative masterplan concept 18 been written by Message Consultants Pty Ltd in Volume 2 3 Benchmark images 19 collaboration with MDG Landscape Architects, Masterplan Vision 4 Crossco Consulting and Traffic Works. Main Street Gardens 20 Revitalise the core of Bairnsdale 4 The detailed precinct plans for the Nicholson Street Design aims 20 Mall and Main Street Gardens have been prepared Pedestrian connection principles 5 Indicative masterplan concept 21 and documented by MDG Landscape Architects and Core area masterplan concept 22 Greening Bairnsdale 6 Crossco Consulting. Benchmark images 23 Assessment of existing street trees 7 Existing tree assessment photos 8 Connection to Mitchell River 24 “…After the assistant Surveyor’s Streetscape and pavement benchmark images 9 Design aims 24 provision of ample tempting space Indicative Masterplan 10 Benchmark images 25 [in Main St], one can wrongly Street tree planting plan 10 Laneways 26 suspect the town of perpetual Paving Bairnsdale 11 Recommendations: 26 poverty, and uneasily of poverty of Existing conditions 12 Indicative concept plan 13 PART 3 imagination. PUblIC REALM GUIdlINES 27 Typical intersection treatments 14 Generations of citizens seem to Pavement materials and streetscape Wayfinding signage 15 elements 28 have missed a point and misused a Surfaces and finishes themes 28 heritage and an opportunity.” Streetscape furniture themes 29 Hal Porter, Bairnsdale: Portrait of an Australian Example of streetscape elements 30 Country Town, 1976. PART 4 31 The aim of this Masterplan is to turn Porter’s IMplEMENTATION plAN 31 sentiment on its head. Masterplan: proposed staging and priority works 32 Priority works and costings 33 RE-imagining Bairnsdale: Masterplan — PUBLIC REALM WORKS, PRIORITIES AND COsts — VOLUME 2 2 PART 1 THE masterplan The key objectives of Council’s Bairnsdale CBD THE AIMS OF THE Improvement Project Brief are to: MASTErplAN • Create visually cohesive and functional spaces The aim of the Masterplan work is the through the development of unified urban development of a contemporary, vibrant urban design themes that reflect the history and centre in Bairnsdale with public spaces that varied functions of the CBD; support commercial and social activity and a • Improve vehicle, pedestrian and cycle more sustainable city. The Masterplan provides circulation and movement patterns around the a framework for re-imagining Bairnsdale in the CBD; 21st century as a sustainable, multi-faceted city with connected and interesting public spaces. • Enhance the linkages and the relationship between the CBD and the Mitchell River THE STRUCTURE OF THE environs; MASTErplAN, VOLUME 2 • Enhance the functionality, operation and amenity of the environs of Nicholson Street, Volume 2 is in four parts; Service Street and Bailey Street, north of Main • Part 1 — The masterplan Street as part of the retail core; • Part 2 — Key projects • Progress the relevant recommendations, • Part 3 — Public realm guidelines strategies and objectives of the Bairnsdale Growth Strategy, Bairnsdale CBD Walking and • Part 4 — Implementation plan. Wayfinding Study, Bairnsdale CBD Car Parking Strategy and the Bairnsdale CBD Business Plan; • Involve the local community and key stakeholders in the design process to engender community support and ownership of the CBD’s public spaces. In summary, the overall objective of the Bairnsdale CBD Improvement Masterplan is to: • “Prepare an overall plan that identifies key improvements to pedestrian movements; road networks and traffic circulation; linkages; laneways; nodes; land use relationships; recreation; community and event space; and identifies key sites/locations for priority design attention.” RE-imagining Bairnsdale: Masterplan — PUBLIC REALM WORKS, PRIORITIES AND COsts — VOLUME 2 3 MASTErplAN VISION Revitalise the core of Bairnsdale The Key Aims for the Masterplan Vision are to: RIVERINE • Create a more diverse public realm; STREET • Encourage people to walk rather than drive; FRANCIS STREET • Create a sense of street life and activity after dark; STREET STREET FLOODPLAIN • Activate public spaces with events and activities to make them feel safe and inviting; PYKE SERVICE SERVICE 5 • Increase residential occupation of the city core; NICHOLSON STREET 9 • Improve the sense of connection and provide 4 physical connections between the Mitchell River MITCHELL and the city core. RIVER The primary objectives address the key aims of the 8 MAIN STREET MAIN STREET 2 6 Masterplan Vision and are illustrated on the plan. 10 PRINCES 3 MACLEOD STREET HIGHWAY STREET MACLEOD 1 STREET STREET STREET STREET 7 BAILEY BAILEY McCULLOCH WOOD SERVICE SERVICE DALMAHOY STREET Masterplan Vision Primary Objectives LEGEND Study area 4 Activate the laneways by improving their walkability 8 Establish a use for the Water Tower to highlight its and connection between major streets. iconic status and heritage. 1 Focus on connecting the retail core to the Main Street Gardens, the Mitchell River, the train station 5 Redesign the Nicholson Street Mall 9 Connect the library to the Nicholson Street Mall with and Keeping place. new pavement and tree planting. 6 Create focal points in these locations, for 2 Create a consistently planted ‘grand boulevard’ on community and public events. 10 Improve the sense of connection between the north Main Street. and south sides of the core by defining and 7 Define and highlight entry points to create a clear activating the laneways. 3 Green Bairnsdale Streets with tree planting. sense of ‘entry’ and ‘arrival’ in the core of the town. RE-imagining Bairnsdale: Masterplan — PUBLIC REALM WORKS, PRIORITIES AND COsts — VOLUME 2 4 PEDESTRIAN CONNECTION prINCIplES FRANCIS STREET The pedestrian connection principles are predicated MITCHELL on the following observations; RIVER • Pedestrians and cyclists are the most vulnerable on the street RIVERINE • Bairnsdale has the structural bones to make it a walkable, cyclable city STREET • This does not require large scale interventions like many cities MALL NICHOLSON STREET NICHOLSON STREET • The principal ‘long desire line’ is from the rail station to Main Street, then the Mall, then the river STREET STREET STREET • The principal ‘short desire line’ is from the core Main Street Gardens between Bailey and Service BAILEY BAILEY SERVICE Streets to the Mall PYKE • The walking connections should be punctuated with ‘pause’ points every 100m to help ensure a sense of safety through passive surveillance • Major destinations like the Mall, Rail station and GARDENS Main Street Gardens should be focal points for WATER TOWER activities carried out in the town. Key objectives: • Create logical points to ‘stay’ or ‘pause’ within the CBD TRAIN STATION TO ‘KEEPING PLACE’ Pedestrian Connection Principles LEGEND Key Focal Area Major Destination PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT ANALYSIS ‘Stay’ ‘Stay’ Minor Destination / Pause Point 100m maximum distance between ‘Pause’ ‘Gateway’ ‘stay’-‘pause’ or ‘pause’-‘pause’ ‘Go’ ‘Go’ Linkage Opportunities 0m 50m 100m 150m 200m Bairnsdale Block (N-S) Bairnsdale Block (E-W) RE-imagining Bairnsdale: Masterplan — PUBLIC REALM WORKS, PRIORITIES AND COsts — VOLUME 2 5 GrEENING BAIRNsdALE − 2. East/West roads (MacLeod, Main, Nicholson) RIVERINE STREET which are based upon approx. 200m length of The precinct plan for Main Street gardens This is an important component of the Masterplan proposes additional avenue tree planting (Fraxinus road between two intersections (i.e. section of and can be undertaken in stages. The primary PEARSON STREET angustifolia - Narrow-leafed Ash) down the central Nicholson St between the Service St and Bailey objective of the Greening Bairnsdale Strategy is to pathway to re-establish the grandeur and procession St intersections). “Create a sustainable city centre with high quality FRANCIS STREET of the boulevard. and consistent street tree patterns”. This can be − The location of centre medians and the potential The precinct plan for Nicholson Street proposes achieved by increasing the tree canopy cover within for the medians to be planted, however there PYKE STREET PYKE a sequence of ‘feature’ trees along the Nicholson is no consistent pattern of centre median NICHOLSON STREET the city core with street tree planting. Strategic Street Mall and streetscape either side to act as planning for tree planting works can be undertaken placement or if they can be planted. markers of arrival and departure. BAILEY STREET BAILEY by: STREET WOOD • Spacing and number of trees to be planted will MAIN STREET 1. Scheduling a tree planting program for a specific also be dependent upon the following: area or streetscape based upon an annual budget − Alignment of overhead powerlines; MACLEOD STREET allocation; − Placement and extent of verandahs; 2. Including tree planting as part of a major project; − Locations of services including service pits;

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