Ballarat Clarendon College Sturt Street Campus Master Plan 2017 - 2030 Contents

Overview 1 Purpose 1 Background Documents 1 Philosophy and Purpose 2 Our Core Strength 3 Then And Now 4 Sturt Street Campus History 5 The College Today 5 Clarendon College’s Future 6 Issues Affecting Future Capacity of College 7 Discussion and Response to Issues 7 Zoning Discrepancy 7 Landlocked Site 8 Student Numbers 9 Heritage 9 Traffic and Car Parking 9 Pedestrian Easement 10 Formal Entrance and Wayfinding 10 Open Space and Sports Facilities 10 Landscaping 10 Master Plan 11 Master Plan Key Principles 12 The Master Plan – Existing Conditions 13 Stage 1 Works 14 Potential Future Works Following Stage 1 15 The Master Plan - Final 16 Sequencing 17 Conclusion 17

Ballarat Clarendon College Years 5 - 12 1425 Sturt street Ballarat, Vic 3350 Phone: 5330 8200 Fax: 5333 1513 Email: [email protected] Overview Purpose

This Master Plan provides a framework The Master Plan has evolved from The purpose of the Master Plan is to achieve for the future evolution of the Ballarat previous work completed by Williams Boag the following: Clarendon College Sturt Street campus Architects in 2003, which set the direction • clearly identify the land holdings of • to continually improve the quality over the next 13 years. The Master Plan for the ongoing physical development of Ballarat Clarendon College and guide of facilities and education​ offered to outlines: the campus. Since then Ballarat Clarendon retention of existing built form and College has completed many of the site students; location of future facilities; • the vision and key principles for improvements contemplated in the 2003 • to identify the required built form and • ensure the education demands of an the campus; plan. open space improvements to the campus increasing population in Ballarat and the • opportunities for continuous with an emphasis on the increasing region can be met; improvement of campus facilities As new priorities have been identified and importance of physical activity; • improve access, traffic and parking at the and associated education outcomes; Clarendon has continued to grow, the • ​improve presentation of the campus to way education is delivered on the site has campus; • the issues and constraints currently Sturt Street and help to create a quality evolved over time. Clarendon’s focus and • improve the amenity and functioning of experienced at the campus; streetscape along its entire Sturt Street Clarendon’s internal gathering spaces; direction for the future needs of the campus frontage; • strategies to combat these issues and are now articulated through this latest • improve the future functionality of the • improve the school entry and sense constraints in the future; and version of the Master Plan. campus within the urban fabric of Ballarat of address; as a core facility in the Ballarat Education • a sequencing approach for these changes • improve campus safety and access; cluster; and to be implemented. It is intended that, following exhibition and public review of the Master Plan as part of • provide a clear and explicit understanding • facilitate transparent decision making. The key focus for the evolution of the the planning process, the Master Plan will for the surrounding community and the campus is the continuous improvement of be finalised and endorsed by the City of City of Ballarat as to the future growth facilities, heritage assets, safety, amenity, Ballarat as the responsible authority to and development of the school; presentation to adjoining streets and future guide the future use and development functionality. of the campus.

Background Documents

The following consultant reports have been prepared as part of the Master Plan process, and should be read in conjunction with this Master Plan document:

Town Planning Report - SED Advisory Campus Master Plan Drawings - Williams Boag Architects Traffic Impact Assessment - One Mile Grid Heritage Assessment - Bryce Raworth Pty Ltd Landscaping Plans - MDG Landscape Architecture Economic Impact Assessment - SED Advisory Contribution to Regions and People Report - SED Advisory

Consultation with the surrounding community began in November 2016 and has informed the design responses of the Master Plan.

1 Philosophy and Purpose The strategic goal and purpose of Ballarat Clarendon College as set out in its Planning documentation is:

The bold and enduring pursuit of high performance learning.

Throughout a student’s time at Ballarat Clarendon College the school’s focus is to

maximise their competence, skills and capacity so that, at the end of school, when they stand on the threshold of their future, they can choose their ‘heart’s desire’.

Ballarat Clarendon College is:

Purposeful about learning in all contexts.

To achieve this philosophy and deliver its purpose, Ballarat Clarendon College has prepared this Master Plan document as a guide to the future growth and development of the College.

2 Our Core Strength

The success of Ballarat Clarendon College is grounded in a deep understanding of the context and conditions that create the opportunities for high performance learning.

This is based on four key elements, which underpin the creation and achievement of high performance learning:

Expectation Accountability

The bar is set high, based on the All students and staff are accountable for the fundamental belief that all students and learning and there is parity of responsibility staff are capable of learning and growth. for the achievement of learning outcomes. The pursuit of knowledge and understanding The growth in student learning is not only (intellectual, physical and social) is a viewed through the lens of the individual’s challenging endeavour; it requires discipline, capacity and willingness, but also the persistence and commitment. If the bar is practice, capacity and commitment of the set high, people will aspire and achieve far staff. As such, staff are engaged in becoming beyond what they believe is possible. better learners, constantly reflecting, Such achievements build confidence, which adapting and building their capacity. inspires and motivates further learning. Transparency Process Transparency creates openness and the Learning requires rigorous and disciplined opportunity to show expertise. Clarity and processes. The application of such processes, visibility of practices, responsibilities and which inform instructional practice, pedagogy outcomes are keys to building knowledge, and mindsets, is grounded in a rich and valid understanding and accountability. It also research base that fosters the optimal instils in all members of the community conditions for learning. a mutual respect for the commitment to learning, which in turn motivates all towards the achievement of high performance learning. Each student is entitled to the highest quality learning and so the range in effectiveness among classes must be minimised.

Ballarat Clarendon College historic main building designed by P.S. Richards

3 Ballarat Clarendon College Then And Now

4 Sturt Street Campus History The College Today

To understand the future direction of an integral part of the historically significant Ballarat Clarendon College is an exceptional Ballarat Clarendon College is a school where Ballarat Clarendon College, it is important Sturt Street boulevard and education cluster. school and has been recognised by the learning comes first. It is a coeducational to understand its history. This section of Over the past 100 years, the campus has Weekend Australian as the top performing school enrolling students from Early Learning the Master Plan provides a snapshot of the been systematically improved and developed regional school in Australia for the last three to Year 12. Clarendon has a Junior (ELC to history of the College and sets the scene to effectively cater for the changing needs straight years (2014, 2015, 2016). It has Year 4) campus in Mair Street, Ballarat, for the future planning of the campus. of students. As such, Ballarat Clarendon achieved this title by choosing to be different a Years 5 to 12 campus in Sturt Street, College has evolved over time and continues and to lead. Ballarat and a third campus on King Island. Ballarat Clarendon College is ’s fifth to be one of the leading education providers oldest private school and celebrated its in Victoria. As a result, it has made considered and Most students live in Ballarat and 150th year in 2014. It is the product of a disciplined choices that distinguish it as surrounding districts and attend as day merger in 1974 between two old Ballarat In the early 1990’s the middle and a school where: students. However, there are 150 boarding schools: Ballarat College, which was senior school campuses merged with places which are filled by students • every student is encouraged and enabled established in 1864, and Clarendon the relocation of the senior school to Sturt mainly from regional Victoria and southern to be aspirational, to strive for excellence Presbyterian Ladies College, which Street, with the junior school moving to New South Wales, supplemented by a small and to achieve; was established in 1876. the Mair Street campus. Since 2000 the number from overseas. Sturt Street campus facilities have been • options for future pathways are The current campus at 1425 Sturt Street, improved systematically, including the maximised for each student; As a school, it is focused on learning, in all contexts. Students are provided with Newington, was designed by renowned new HG Morrow Visual Arts Centre, Elsie • teachers are exceptional professionals, a comprehensive range of learning Ballarat architect P.S. Richards and Morison Performing Arts Centre, Darrell dedicated to the progress of every experiences, both in and out of the opened in 1912. The original College J Fraser Library and additional classrooms. student and their own development; buildings - those designed by P.S. Richards The most recent addition to the campus classroom. • teachers themselves have access to or completed to his original plan - are is the Rowena E Coutts Science Centre a sophisticated professional support listed as State Significant on the National fronting Ajax Street. The school has achieved a fine academic process; Trust Heritage Register. The campus forms record over the last ten years and based on • evidence, rigour and objectivity underpin VCE exam results and NAPLAN data it has the design and delivery of every learning been consistently the highest-performing moment and experience for both students regional school in Victoria and at a national and staff; level. • continuous improvement is the natural operating rhythm – Clarendon is a learning organisation for both students and staff; and • ambitious capability – what can be achieved with good teaching, support and challenge – is actively developed in every student.

Simply put: At its core, Clarendon is a place of high performance. A place that consciously cultivates the capacity and potential of every student and staff member.

Dumbarton Girls Boarding House 5 Ballarat Clarendon College’s Future

6 Ballarat Clarendon College’s Future Discussion & Response to Issues

To continue the culture of high performance The campus facilities must evolve to Zoning Discrepancy and to maintain its position as a leading effectively meet the changing needs of the school in Australia, it is important to community in both academic and physical Land in Ballarat Clarendon College’s adaptive reuse incorporating heritage understand the present and future context activity. Whilst predicting the absolute ownership is outlined in blue below. dwellings and new facilities such as the of Ballarat Clarendon College. According to number of future students at Clarendon is a At present, part of the land is contained science centre, and a zoning anomaly the latest available forecasts (Victoria in difficult exercise, it is a certainty that as a within Schedule 5 to the Special Use Zone resulting from the SUZ not reflecting the Future 2016) Ballarat’s population growth consequence of population growth and the (SUZ) and part within the General full campus area of the former middle school will exceed 136,900 residents by 2031, school’s reputation, student numbers will Residential Zone (GRZ1). that formed part of the campus since the representing an increase of around 40,000 naturally grow and, as such, the Sturt Street early 1990’s. residents over the next 16 years. This campus needs to adapt to changing needs. The SUZ provides for the use of land for the purpose of private education, whilst equates to an average annual growth rate of To facilitate this natural growth, it is Accordingly, to rectify the current the GRZ1 aims to provide for moderate 1.9 per cent over this period, exceeding that important to look at the issues currently discrepancy in zoning and to ensure that housing growth and allows a limited range of Victoria, which is forecast to achieve a facing the campus and restricting all land forming part of the campus is in of non-residential uses. population growth rate of 1.6 per cent. Clarendon’s ability to respond, change and a consistent zone control, the Master Plan Based on this predicted population growth, adapt to the changing face of education Clearly, the SUZ is the most appropriate seeks to apply the Special Use Zone across an increase of 40,000 residents in Ballarat and the changing needs of its students. zoning for the school site. the whole of the school site. The new SUZ represents approximately an additional 2,100 boundary will support transparent decision residents in the 11-17 age groups, each of The discrepancy in zoning is a result of both making into the future by clearly defining whom will need appropriate schooling and incremental growth of the campus by the campus boundary. education services.

Issues Affecting Future Capacity of College

The issues affecting the ability of Ballarat • No designated outdoor meeting or focal Clarendon College to respond to future point within the campus; demand and the evolving needs of education • Inadequate drop-off and pick-up facilities can be summarised as follows: on key access streets; • Inefficient integration and use of buildings • A lack of on-site car parking for staff; and and land within the campus; • Planning controls which do not clearly • Uncertainty regarding the campus facilitate the natural growth of Ballarat boundary and the future use of certain Clarendon College in a form that is assets in Clarendon’s control; effective or appropriate for the purpose • A formal entrance point which is not of a school. central to the campus and does not lead to a focal point or sense of address; These issues, coupled with feedback received from the neighbouring community, • Inadequate outdoor sports facilities to have informed the philosophy underpinning meet physical education expectations, preparation of the Master Plan and are both in terms of size and quality; discussed in more detail below. • Lack of appropriate surfaces for delivery of outdoor physical education in all It is important to note that this plan is not seasons; encouraging major expansion of Ballarat • Safety issues and campus protection, Clarendon College or its grounds, but particularly given the pedestrian rather seeks to facilitate and make clear easement through the centre of the the physical changes required to be made campus; to secure the campus within its current boundaries now and in the future. • Poor presentation to Sturt Street, Ballarat Clarendon College Sturt Street Campus boundary and current zoning particularly the courts and flat/carport structure; 7 Active open Site Area Open space Sporting/Open Space School space area Discussion & Response to Issues (cont’d) (approx. ha) Area % Facilities (approx. ha)

1 oval, 2 multi-use Ballarat Clarendon College 5.6 2.1 37.5 /tennis courts Landlocked Site 2 ovals, 1 multi-use playing field, 9 tennis courts, The total area of land which is used for core small campus area to provide excellent St Patrick’s College 12.0 6.0 50.0 2 multi-use netball/tennis educational purposes at the Sturt Street educational facilities, and demonstrates the courts, 6 nets Campus is 5.6 hectares. current need for modern, adequately sized active open space facilities on the campus. 4 ovals, 2 netball courts, 5 cricket nets, This total area of land represents a relatively 8 x 100m synthetic sprinting lanes, 4 tennis courts, small area in comparison to other public and Ballarat Clarendon College is committed to Ballarat Grammar 14.0 5.4 38.5 1 court, private school campuses, particularly those the continued use of this iconic campus into multi use synthetic hockey which, like Clarendon, have a demonstrated the future, similarly for the junior campus /soccer pitch and 8 tennis commitment to healthy active students and in Mair Street; the College does not plan to courts to excelling in sporting competition. grow beyond these two campuses in Ballarat 2 ovals, 2 basketball courts, 1 netball court, 2 cricket nets, The campus, save for purchasing further in the foreseeable future. Ballarat High School 16.0 8.0 50.0 4 multi-use tennis/netball residential properties, has no further ability courts, 3 tennis courts to expand. Accordingly, the Master Plan creates a vision for the efficient and best use of the 2 ovals, 4 tennis courts, Ballarat Secondary College 7.0 5.0 71.0 2 multi-use tennis/netball Table 1 shows a breakdown of the landlocked grounds and makes appropriate courts, 1 playing field campus area of Clarendon’s Sturt Street use of campus land in order to continue to deliver an exceptional education and high 4 ovals, 29 tennis courts, campus in comparison to some similar Xavier College (Melbourne) 15.5 8.4 54.0 5 cricket nets, 1 basketball schools. The table indicates the College is service standard to students and staff. court, 1 athletics track, making very effective use of a comparatively 1 oval, 1 soccer pitch, 2 tennis Melbourne High School 4.5 2.2 48.0 courts, 2 multi-use courts

33 cricket nets, 3 ovals, Scotch College (Melbourne) 26.0 9.3 35.0 1 soccer pitch, 2 playing fields, 24 tennis courts

Table 1: Ballarat Clarendon College Sturt Street Campus area in comparison to other schools

The Master Plan ensures a campus The Master Plan aims at improving footprint that can accommodate all residential amenity in the immediate future use and development needs of surrounds by making better use of the College. Adequate provision is made non- residential streets and providing for education, administrative and sports additional car parking on the campus. facilities, supported by improved parking, access and landscaping. Overall the Master Plan recognises the heritage values of the existing buildings Preservation and activation of heritage and provides for the integration of new assets are balanced with other core buildings and reuse of existing dwellings education facilities to ensure the long term as part of the campus. functionality of the College on this site, in the heart of Ballarat’s education cluster.

Rowena E Coutts Science Centre

8 Discussion & Response to Issues (cont’d)

Student Numbers Traffic and Car Parking

The Ballarat population is growing at above growth rate is lower than the 1.9 per cent Vehicular access to the campus is and drop-off locations for the campus state averages and Clarendon must plan for annual population growth rate projected for currently provided from two locations with (in particular Wanliss Road) and to provide and respond to the growing demand and Ballarat over the same period; if the school a porte-cochere type arrangement in front an additional 31 off-street car parking need for its services. was to grow in line with predicted Ballarat of one of the boarding house buildings spaces. population growth, student numbers would accessed from the Sturt Street service Given the campus is at its current student rise to over 1,300 by 2030 which is not the road and a staff car park accessed from The Master Plan actively discourages the capacity, the school needs to think about intent of the College. Ajax Street to the site’s south. use of Ajax Street and Murray Street for how it could accommodate these projected any school-related pick-up/drop-off activity, growth numbers to enable it to continue to The College is planning to accommodate Pick-up/drop-off activity occurs largely improving the residential amenity for local serve Ballarat from this site, as it has done demand focused on a balanced incremental within the Sturt Street service road; residents. Demarcation of car parking along for over a century. growth strategy as opposed to expansionary however, Clarendon understands that a Wanliss Road and removal of redundant growth. For this reason the Master Plan proportion of pick-up/drop-off activity also cross overs in Sturt Street will support the Although it is not the school’s intention to identifies the ways in which Clarendon occurs on Murray Street and Ajax Street availability of on-street car parking in the significantly increase its student and/or intends to accommodate the projected along the southern boundary of the campus. education precinct. staff numbers, the Master Plan can demand resulting from growth in population accommodate up to 1,200 students by on the campus in a way that has minimal A total of 17 formal car spaces are These outcomes achieved through the 2030, which represents growth less or impact on the amenity of neighbouring currently provided on-site (accessed from Master Plan will address the future needs equal to 1.5 per cent per annum. This residential properties, whilst supporting the Ajax Street), with most of the school’s of the campus whilst improving parking and enhancement of Ballarat’s eduction cluster. parking demands satisfied by on-street access arrangements, and general residential parking along the Sturt Street service road. amenity which were key expectations Heritage identified through the consultation process. As Ballarat Clarendon College looks to the The Sturt Street Campus forms an integral Clarendon as is its heritage responsibility future, it intends to formalise the pick-up part of the social and urban fabric of Ballarat. to this streetscape. The campus has substantial heritage value both in built form (the original College The Master Plan seeks to demonstrate the buildings are listed on the National Trust steps Clarendon will undertake to improve Register and also incorporates extensive this heritage interface and to enhance views other locally significant heritage assets), to the significant heritage buildings on site. and social significance as a cultural This includes the relocation of the existing institution with more than 152 years tennis courts and Girls Boarding House, of history. improved landscaped entrance and new boulevard street trees along the street Ballarat Clarendon College is Victoria’s fifth frontage. oldest private school. Care has been taken to retain the maximum The key focus of the Master Plan is the number of dwellings in Ajax Street, including preservation and activation of heritage the relocation of one heritage dwelling on the assets, continuous improvement of facilities, campus. The active protection of these safety, presentation to adjoining streets, and heritage assets, as with all heritage the future functionality of the campus within buildings on the campus, will be ensured the urban fabric of Ballarat. through adaptive reuse for education and Clarendon related accommodation. The Sturt Street frontage is the most prominent of the campus’ street presences. By considering the use of Clarendon’s land Ballarat Clarendon College owns, uses and holistically, conveyed through a Master Plan, maintains a number of fine heritage buildings the school can ensure the integration of all Sturt Street view of the Dumbarton Girls Boarding House along its 300 metre Sturt Street interface. heritage assets into the functioning Ensuring the best possible presentation of the campus and safeguard its future. to this street is of utmost importance to 9 Discussion & Response to Issues (cont’d)

Pedestrian Easement Open Space and Sports Facilities

A pedestrian easement traverses the for the safety of students under its care. There is an identified lack of outdoor during health and physical education campus between Sturt Street and Ajax On 26 November 2015, the Victorian sporting facilities on the campus for classes, the sports program and during Street along what was formerly a section Parliament passed the Child Wellbeing and students to use throughout the year as recess and lunchtime. The facility also of Murray Street. This easement is used as Safety Amendment (Child Safe Standards) part of the curriculum or during breaks. has a direct student benefit through higher a public pedestrian access way and currently Act 2015 to introduce seven child safe intensity levels during physical activity provides 24-hour public access through the standards (the Standards). The The sports oval is a large space, however, it sessions as classes can spread out and use core of the campus. Standards apply to all organisations involved is not line-marked for alternative sports and the greater area. Netball, tennis, basketball in child-related work in Victoria, including its use must be limited during the and mini-soccer can be accommodated. The pedestrian easement was originally Clarendon and City of Ballarat, and one of wetter winter months. As a result, much of The relocated cricket practice nets provide registered on the title in 1990 when Ballarat the standards states that organisations must the Physical Education class time and for modern practice facilities that have Clarendon College acquired the land. The have strategies to identify and reduce or physical activity during breaks takes place on multi-use for other sports such as hockey campus has become a holistic unit since the remove any risks to child safety. the tennis courts fronting Sturt Street. These and soccer training, and the location of this early 1990’s through the consolidation of the courts are poorly located (as discussed) and facility allows for integrated use with the middle and senior schools and facilitated by The pedestrian easement through the are also too small to accommodate enough all weather sport fields. the closure of that section of Murray Street. campus has been identified by Ballarat students during breaks or to play sports on Clarendon College as a major risk to regulation sized pitches/courts. The facility will increase the variety and Although a public easement through a school students as well as exposing the school quality of physical education provided to was considered appropriate at that time, the to being in breach of the Standards. Until the Accordingly, the Master Plan has been students during all seasons and support College now considers the risks associated pedestrian easement is removed, Clarendon prepared to show Clarendon’s future vision the College’s focus on health and well- with public access through a school campus cannot conclude that it has reduced or for the provision of modern functional open being. Each student will be assisted to meet to be a serious concern and a potential removed this particular risk. space and sport areas for the school. the Australian Physical Activities Guidelines liability issue. The risk is increased with (APAG) through a combination of physical For these reasons, the Master Plan seeks potential access to boarding facilities on The multi-purpose all weather sports fields education classes, the co-curricular sports to provide security measures to address the campus. effectively doubles current capacity for use program and encouraging physical activity ongoing student safety and to limit public at recess and lunchtime. Furthermore, legislation now dictates that access through the campus grounds. Clarendon and City of Ballarat have increased responsibility and accountability Landscaping

Formal Entrance and Wayfinding The campus has a number of important cover to existing car parking, and increase and sensitive interfaces to other public Ballarat’s tree canopy in support of Council’s The current formal entrance to the For this reason, an alternative school and private land. The most prominent is at urban forest initiative. campus is located at the front of the Percy entrance and “sense of address” the front of the campus facing Sturt Street, S Richards building, which was the first new is proposed as part of the Master Plan. where school-owned land meets the public The landscaping treatment of the campus boundary along Ajax Street will complement school building developed on the site in road reserve for a distance of around 300 the residential character of the street. In metres. 1912. As the campus has evolved over addition, the campus has sensitive the last century, this building no longer interfaces to private residential land on Ajax At present the majority of the school’s represents the centre of the campus, nor Street and Junction Street. These interfaces does it lead to the heart of the campus or frontage along Sturt Street presents will be appropriately landscaped (as shown allow for convenient wayfinding to other pleasantly; however Clarendon does not in the Master Plan) and treated to provide a destinations. consider the current flat, carport and considerable buffer and transition between tennis courts as appropriate inclusions in this the school use and its surrounding Whilst this was the appropriate arrival point streetscape. Accordingly, it is the intention residential neighbours. The landscaping when this was the main school building, and of the Master Plan to see the buildings and along the boundary to the laneway will one to which the campus was focused and structure demolished and for a soft dramatically improve this interface to the other development occurred around, it now landscaped response to welcome visitors and surrounding residential area. Landscaping will also improve the south western interface only represents about 10% of the passers-by on Sturt Street. of the campus at the new on-site car parks functionality of the campus and is through a combination of new plantings and located some 200 metres from other Additional boulevard street trees will retention of mature trees. important buildings on the campus. compliment the streetscape, provide shade 10 Master Plan

11 Master Plan Key Principles

This section sets out the Master Plan 3. New active open space 5. New infill development/facilities and the key principles underpinning it. The existing oval will be retained and Removal of the concrete block veneer corner, with re-development of the Charles 1. Establishing a more central the addition of a new all-weather frontage of the Girls Boarding House and E Richardson Physical Education Centre. campus entrance and sense of synthetic playing field will take pressure the adjacent carport will allow Dumbarton address off it, especially during the wetter winter to be viewed from three sides along Sturt Additional on-site car parking will ensure months. The all-weather sports playing Street. This will provide a significant improved access and parking arrangements The Master Plan shifts the main campus field has been designed to obtain maximum enhancement to the quality of the Sturt that support the future use and development entry eastwards to a more central location benefit from the land available and ensure Street streetscape and complement the of the campus. The new facilities will be which reflects the evolving use of the the interface between the campus and entry to the campus on the Murray Street appropriately landscaped to ensure an campus and, when fully implemented, will residential properties is improved. The alignment. improved street frontage. provide immediate orientation for visitors playing area of the open space area is to Clarendon. The entry’s detailed design planned at 69 metres long by 46 metres To continue the Sturt Street frontage quality 6. Improved public infrastructure will re-establish a prominent entry from wide, just short of the minimum for a upgrade, the existing Chapel building, which Sturt Street that is more central and full-sized soccer pitch. The area could is small and inadequate for its intended use, Improvements to the road and pedestrian provides a sense of address to the campus contain, and is planned to be marked out will be removed and a replacement Chapel network servicing the campus will be made facilities. Better controlled security will for, one mini-soccer pitch, four basketball located elsewhere on the site. The existing to support the improved functioning of the also be achieved via this new entrance. or netball courts and six tennis courts. Chapel is poorly-sited, under-used and College and local neighbourhood. The surface would be synthetic grass and located in an awkward position, meaning The new entrance will consist of high surrounding the playing area would be a it is blocking views to the most prominent Key upgrades will include improved pick-up quality landscaping including new boulevard 3.6 metre high mesh fence to ensure sports heritage building on campus. The Chapel and drop-off facilities in Wanliss Road, works street trees to compliment and enhance the balls would not escape. Extensive will be replaced with a suitable and to Ajax Street and Murray Street, street Sturt Street interface and contribute to the landscaping and an acoustic fencing along functional facility in a different location on tree planting and removal of redundant improvement of the broader education the southern and eastern boundaries of the the campus and will be replaced with a high cross overs in Sturt Street, demarcation of precinct. area will ensure that any potential off-site quality landscaped open space area. This will on-street parking where appropriate, and amenity impacts are managed appropriately be established between the front of the new the augmentation of the off-street pedestrian 2. Future use of Clarendon owned and the campus interface with the laneway main administration building and the network along Junction Street and Wanliss is significantly improved. Sturt Street frontage, connecting with the Road to provide a safe pedestrian-friendly properties in Ajax and Murray established landscape in front of MacFarland link to Sturt Street. Streets 4. New central open space Hall. The Sturt Street frontage has been upgraded to the Wanliss Road Ballarat Clarendon College owns and The new central open space, created utilises 13 buildings addressed to Ajax concurrently with the construction of the Street, as well as No. 1 Murray Street. Rowena E Coutts Science Centre and, now Six of these properties are located opposite positioned on a direct axial relationship to the new Rowena E Coutts Science Centre on the new entry, takes on greater symbolic the southern side of Ajax Street, with the importance on the campus. The significance remaining properties on the northern side. of this “heart of campus” space is enhanced by its extension and connection through the Recognising this property holding and campus to the south of Ajax Street. incorporating it into the long-term vision for the school, benefits Clarendon and the The “heart of campus” space provides the surrounding area and provides certainty, focus and siting for all other new built form ensures efficiency and improves amenity, on the campus. As the Rowena E Coutts both internally and externally, to the Science Centre and the Erindale Building campus. The retention, relocation and orientate to the “heart of Campus” space, adaptive re-use of the maximum number so will all new major buildings. The of contributory heritage dwellings, balanced replacement Chapel (to be discussed with the educational needs of the College, further) will front this important central will ensure net community benefit campus space, as will new administration, is achieved through the Master Plan. public reception and staff facilities. Mackinnon Wing

12 The Master Plan - Existing Conditions

13 The Master Plan - Stage One Works

14 The Master Plan - Potential Future Works

15 The Master Plan Final

16 Sequencing Conclusion

Two sequencing diagrams form part of the Potential Future stages: from year • The Ballarat Clarendon College Sturt • A Master Plan has now been prepared Master Plan. They provide an indication 3 to year 13 as funding allows: Street campus currently has a number for the entire Ballarat Clarendon College of how the campus is proposed to be of opportunities and issues which need Sturt Street campus and sets out the developed over the next 13 years and • Construct new Girls Boarding House; to be addressed to ensure the continuous school’s vision for the campus until the in what order. It is noted, however, that improvement of the education and year 2030. The Master Plan outlines the • Demolish existing Girls Boarding House changes in future circumstances could facilities provided by the school at this proposed site improvements to ensure (only once the newly constructed Girls modify the sequencing after Stage 1. location in the future. the long-term viability of the campus and, Boarding House is functional); • The Sturt Street campus is the school’s informed by specialist assessments and Stage One: Immediate works • Build new entry building to include: main campus, where children from the consultation with the local community, following planning permit and ◦◦ Administration rooms; ages of 10 – 18 are educated. balances a number of competing factors planning scheme amendment ◦◦ Classrooms; and The campus began its development at to deliver net community benefit. approval: ◦◦ Staff room. this location in 1912. Ballarat Clarendon • This application and associated Master • Demolish existing staff room and College is one of Ballarat’s major Plan provides the opportunity for Ballarat • Remove and relocate 21 Ajax Street, commence expanded “heart of campus” employers and accounts for a large Clarendon College, the City of Ballarat 23 Ajax Street and 1 Murray Street space; proportion of the region’s economic and the community to consider the issues dwellings; and social capital. which currently face the school, as well • Demolish the non-contributing dwelling • Modify entry landscaping; • The Sturt Street campus does not have as the opportunities and benefits that can at 17 Ajax Street; • Demolish existing class rooms and offices a current formally adopted Master Plan. be realised by the implementation of an • Relocate the dwelling at 19 Ajax Street to (No. 13 on Existing Campus Conditions This means the vision for the future appropriate Master Plan. 17 Ajax Street and re-purpose for school drawing); use and evolution of the campus is not • The application will apply the use; • Complete “heart of campus” space; articulated for the City of Ballarat, the appropriate planning controls to the • Close parts of Murray and Ajax Streets; • Build new gathering/contemplation space neighbouring community or the school Sturt Street campus to facilitate its • New multi-purpose open space sports (Chapel); itself. Similarly, there are no appropriate long-term evolution by providing a planning controls in place to support the clear and transparent decision-making playing fields, including relocated cricket • Demolish existing Chapel; nets; future operation of the campus as an framework for the site. The campus would • Finalise Sturt Street streetscape; education facility. be controlled by holistic site zoning and • Remove pedestrian easement; • New Sturt Street campus address and guided by the adopted Master Plan. • Demolish existing tennis courts and improved Sturt Street frontage; flat/carport at Sturt Street frontage; • Upgraded Sturt Street presentation; • New front entry landscaping and Sturt Street street trees; • New “heart of campus” space – focus of east-west link; • New drop-off and pick-up areas in • East gathering space; Wanliss Road and reduce access via Ajax • West gathering space; and Street; • Utilise landlocked space. • New car park in the Wanliss Road /Junction Street corner; and

• New pedestrian footpath and street lighting along sections of Junction Street and Wanliss Road.

17 Conclusion (cont’d)

• The application also seeks a planning ◦◦ A Girls Boarding House; • Designated drop-off and pick-up points of these dwellings are somewhat offset by permit to implement the first elements ◦◦ New administration, staff and teaching will be encouraged for use through a the Master Plan’s proposed improvements of the Master Plan as follows: building; traffic management plan shared with to the Sturt Street streetscape made the school community. The traffic possible by the relocation of the tennis ◦◦ Development of an all-weather ◦◦ Removal of existing staff room and management plan and the design of courts to the new all-weather field. multi-purpose sports field in the place class rooms to allow for a campus proposed works aim to reduce traffic on • The Master Plan will ensure there are of three dwellings contributory to the “heart space”; Ajax and Murray Streets and divert it to adequate controls for other heritage heritage precinct; ◦◦ Relocation of the existing Chapel Sturt Street and Wanliss Road. buildings within the campus. The Master ◦◦ Part-closure of Ajax Street and Murray building; and • Schools have an increasing responsibility Plan confirms the school’s intention to Street to allow for the development ◦◦ A new centralised formal entry point. to ensure the safety of their students in retain and utilise it’s existing heritage of the sports field and to improve the modern times. The removal of the fabric within Ballarat’s education cluster. • The Master Plan is not part of an internal functioning of the campus; pedestrian easement through the heart expansionary policy of the school and • The application has a high level of of the campus will help Ballarat Clarendon ◦◦ Removal of a pedestrian easement to this application is not made to specifically support from strategic planning College provide a safer environment for improve security and access within the facilitate growth beyond existing demand. documents, particularly the Ballarat its students. Alternative routes are campus, including 24 hour security for The application seeks to allow for facility Strategy. The plan for the campus, available for pedestrians to reach their boarders; upgrades and the overall continuous located in an established area with desired destination, including via new ◦◦ Removal of existing tennis courts and improvement of the campus’s limited space for expansion, pro-actively footpaths along Wanliss Road and inappropriate structures within the functioning until 2030, catering for a addresses key issues to integrate the Junction Street to be provided at the Campus’s frontage to Sturt Street; potential 1,200 students. The Master campus into the built form and cultural school’s expense. fabric of the city and ensure its long-term ◦◦ The construction of two new car Plan has considered incremental growth • Whilst implementation of the Master Plan future. parking areas in the south-west to ensure Clarendon can keep pace with involves the removal of three and on-site corner of the campus; expected future demand, in terms of • Implementation of the Master Plan will student numbers. The campus currently relocation of one heritage dwelling, it is provide certainty about the future use of ◦◦ Landscaping works to improve has 985 students. If the school was to considered that the associated impacts the land for education provision and will Clarendon’s presentation to Sturt grow in line with existing growth rates, are outweighed by the benefits of the ensure the campus continues to make a Street; then estimated student numbers would all-weather multi-purpose sports field, valuable social and economic contribution ◦◦ Landscaping works to create reach between 1,130 and 1,200 by 2030. improvements to Ajax Street and the to Ballarat and the region. Master Plan’s positive social and economic high-amenity interfaces with • An Economic Impact Assessment implications for the Ballarat region. residential properties, Ajax Street outlines the financial benefits to the Furthermore, impacts of the removal and Murray Street; Ballarat economy of the school and ◦◦ New pedestrian footpaths along the benefits associated with the sections of Wanliss Road and Junction implementation of the Master Plan Street; and the two growth scenarios. ◦◦ Formalise the pick-up and drop-off • A Traffic Impact Assessment concludes locations for the campus in Wanliss that the traffic implications of the Road and actively discourage the use proposed immediate works requiring of Ajax Street and Murray Street for a planning permit are acceptable. The any school-related pick-up/drop-off assessment also concludes that the activity, and campus and surrounding road network ◦◦ A traffic management plan to could absorb the additional traffic and car ensure improved traffic and access parking associated with potential growth management outcomes for the in student numbers. campus.

• The Master Plan also details potential future facility and functioning upgrades, including the following:

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