M1 Princes Motorway Mount Ousley Interchange Urban Design and Visual Impact Assessment
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M1 PRINCES MOTORWAY MOUNT OUSLEY INTERCHANGE URBAN DESIGN AND VISUAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT FINAL 30 OCTOBER 2017 Prepared for: Prepared by: On behalf of: ISSUE REVISION DATE PREPARED BY REVIEWED BY SPACKMAN MOSSOP MICHAELS DRAFT 00 27 July 2017 AS/BH/CC/SJ NY 115 Flinders Street FINAL 00 11 October 2017 AS/BH/CC NY Surry Hills New South Wales 2010 Australia Telephone 61 2 9361 4549 FINAL 01 17 October 2017 AS/BH/CC NY Fax 61 2 9361 4569 FINAL 02 24 October 2017 AS/BH/CC NY Email [email protected] FINAL 03 30 October 2017 AS/BH/CC NY www.spackmanmossopmichaels.com | 30 OCTOBER 2017 ISSUE: FINAL REV: 03 MOUNT OUSLEY INTERCHANGE URBAN DESIGN CONCEPT AND LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AND VISUAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT SPACKMAN MOSSOP MICHAELS CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 BACKGROUND ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT ................................................................................................................................................................ 1 1.3 STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT ............................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.4 THE PROPOSAL ................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 1.5 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS .................................................................................................................................................................. 2 2. CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS .................................................................................................................... 3 2.1 REGIONAL CONTEXT ........................................................................................................................................................................... 3 2.2 LOCAL CONTEXT .................................................................................................................................................................................. 4 2.3 LAND USES .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 2.4 CONNECTIVITY .................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 2.5 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION .................................................................................................................................................................. 8 2.6 LAND FORM AND HYDROLOGY .......................................................................................................................................................... 9 2.7 VIEWS AND VISTAS .............................................................................................................................................................................. 9 2.8 BIODIVERSITY ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 2.9 HERITAGE ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 12 2.10 THE WOLLONGONG CAMPUS MASTER PLAN .................................................................................................................................... 13 2.11 LANDSCAPE CHARACTER ZONES ....................................................................................................................................................... 14 2.12 ISSUES - SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................................................................ 15 3. URBAN DESIGN AND LANDSCAPE OBJECTIVES ............................................................................. 17 3.1 OVERALL PROPOSAL OBJECTIVES ...................................................................................................................................................... 17 3.2 URBAN DESIGN VISION......................................................................................................................................................................... 17 3.3 URBAN DESIGN OBJECTIVES AND PRINCIPLES .................................................................................................................................. 17 3.4 SUMMARY - DESIGN APPROACH AND KEY STRATEGIES .................................................................................................................... 18 4. URBAN AND LANDSCAPE CONCEPT DESIGN ................................................................................ 21 4.1 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 4.2 APPROACH TO DESIGN ......................................................................................................................................................................... 21 4.3 PLANS .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 26 4.4 SECTIONS .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 36 4.5 DESIGN ELEMENTS............................................................................................................................................................................... 44 5. LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AND VISUAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT ................................................... 89 5.1 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 89 5.2 IMPACT ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY ............................................................................................................................................... 89 5.3 LANDSCAPE CHARACTER ASSESSMENT ............................................................................................................................................. 90 5.4 VISUAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT ............................................................................................................................................................. 98 6. MITIGATION MEASURES ..................................................................................................................... 121 7. CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................................................ 123 8. REFERENCES ...................................................................................................................................... 125 MOUNT OUSLEY INTERCHANGE URBAN DESIGN CONCEPT AND LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AND VISUAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT SPACKMAN MOSSOP MICHAELS 30 OCTOBER 2017 ISSUE: FINAL REV: 03 | Figure 1. Proposal area Source: Jacobs (2017) | 30 OCTOBER 2017 ISSUE: FINAL REV: 03 MOUNT OUSLEY INTERCHANGE URBAN DESIGN CONCEPT AND LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AND VISUAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT SPACKMAN MOSSOP MICHAELS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND Option 4 provided for a complete separation of heavy and light vehicles by 1.3 STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT creating a new left turn exit for heavy vehicles, and creating a truck bypass The M1 Princes Motorway is the primary roadway from Sydney to Wollongong at Mount Ousley Road (Figure 2). This option allowed for direct northbound Chapter 1 – Introduction: Presents the introduction and background to the and the South Coast of New South Wales. At Mount Ousley Interchange, the access to the Motorway and eastbound access to Mount Ousley Road from proposal. northern exit from the Motorway in to Wollongong and its northern suburbs, the University. This enhanced option provides better connectivity and improved is through Mount Ousley Road. The intersection of the M1 and Mount Ousley traffic flow within the university and surrounding road networks. The Concept Chapter 2 – Contextual Analysis: Provides an analysis of the proposal corridor Road is currently experiencing several issues impacting safety and traffic flow. Design presented in the report is a development of this option and improves context including landform, land use, road network, flora and fauna, heritage These include: upon the traffic flow and legibility of the interchange. and hydrology in order to establish the appropriate design responses to the context. A high volume of traffic and congestion with approximately 50,000 vehicles per day, of which 15 per cent are heavy vehicles Chapter 3 – Urban Design and Landscape Objectives and Principles: Identifies 1.2 PURPOSE OF THIS