Camellia Town Centre DRAFT URBAN DESIGN and MASTER PLAN REPORT

Camellia Town Centre DRAFT URBAN DESIGN AND MASTER PLAN REPORT

Produced by Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects for NSW Department of Planning and Environment

FEBRUARY 2018

Page 1 Page 2 CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 05

A THE SITE VISION & PRINCIPLES 09 B URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK 23

A1 The Existing Place Camellia Town Centre Illustrative Master Plan 24 A1.1 Greater Parramatta Growth Area 10 A1.2 Greater Parramatta Land Use and Infrastructure B1 Objectives of the Master Plan 26 Implementation Plan 11 B1.1 City Making 26 A1.3 Camellia Land use and Infrastructure Strategy 12 A1.4 Hierarchy of Centres 13 B2 Public Domain Elements 28 A1.5 Connectivity 14 B2.1 A Cohesive & Connective Street Network 28 A1.6 Regional Open Space & The Green Grid 15 B2.2 High Quality Public Spaces & Landscape 29 A2 The Site A2.1 Environment and Ecology 16 B2.3 Precincts & Urban Blocks 30 A2.2 Flooding 16 B2.4 A Cohesive Ground Plane 31 A2.3 Hazards 17 B2.5 Active Travel Network 32 A2.4 Contamination 17 B2.6 light rail Route & Stations 33

A3 Vision and Principles B3 Public Domain Details 34 A3.1 Vision 18 A3.2 Better Placed 19 B3.1 Key Public Domain Elements 34 A3.3 Urban Design Principles 20 B3.2 Street Layout & Character 36 B3.3 Public Open Space Character 46

B4 Public Facilities 56

B5 Built Form Principles 58

B5.1 Street Level & town centre Living 59 B5.2 Maximum Building Heights 60 B5.3 Built Form Matrix 61 B5.4 Active Frontage & Retail 62 B5.5 Parking & Access 63 B5.6 Sunlight Access & Daylight 64 B5.7 Views & Tower Placement 65 B5.8 Landscape Requirements Within Blocks 66 B5.9 Building Ground Floor Relationship to the Public Domain - Non Residential 68 B5.10 Building Ground Floor Relationship Greater Parramatta looking west Source: Draft Greater Sydney Region Plan October 2017 - to the Public Domain - Residential 70 Greater Sydney Commission

Page 3 DRAFT MASTER PLAN

Page 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

DRAFT MASTER PLAN KEY

1. New light rail, Pedestrian + Cycle Bridge 2. Potential Conversion of Sydney Water Pumping Station (heritage item) to a Community Facility or other adaptive re-use 3. New Public Amphitheatre 4. town centre Camellia light rail stop 1 (Stage 1) 5. Potential town centre Main Street Camellia light rail stop 2 6. town centre Market Plaza 7. Riverfront Parkland + Boardwalk 8. Parramatta River Bridge for vehicles, cycles and pedestrians and Potential Stage 2 Light Rail Crossing (subject to ﬁ nal design) 9. Northern Square Penisula Park + Potential Community Facility 10. Potential New Pedestrian + Cycle connection added to existing bridge 11. Green Floodway along widened James Ruse Drive frontage 12. Potential New Library, Square + Park 13. Sportsﬁ eld + Amenities (in association with the potential new school) 14. Potential Future Camellia Primary School 15. Potential Future Main Street Camellia light rail stop 16. New Pocket Park + Square 17. Proposed light rail Stabling Yard 18. Potential New Park 19. Potential New Pedestrian + Cycle connection (parallel to bridges)

Page 5 i Designing Camellia Town Centre

Camellia Town Centre will be located at the centre of Greater Parramatta. The Master Plan is structured by a series of principles to deliver best practice urban projects.

Camellia Town Centre will become a vibrant and active place with a balance of living and business activities including oﬃ ce, research, education, employment, retail, recreation, entertainment and residential uses. There will be a mixture of land uses, building types, spaces and facilities and a mix of residents, workers and visitors that will ensure spaces are popular across both the day and evening. A range of social and community facilities for users across all ages and diverse cultures will support a vibrant community.

The Camellia Town Centre is a central component Greater Parramatta Growth Area - and is covered by a number of planning policies and frameworks including the Draft Greater Sydney Region Plan 2017, the Draft City Central District Plan (Greater Sydney Commission) as well as the Greater Parramatta Interim Land Use & Infrastructure Implementation Plan (DPE). Detailed design and making of the town centre will reference key planning policies such as Better Places, Greener Sydney, SEPP65 and the Apartment Design Guide.

Artist impression of the Camellia Town Cenrtre looking south The design of our urban places and precincts is the starting point for how they ultimately function and perform for all. Urban design with the Town Square and light rail stop, centre. excellence delivers value in numerous ways: Source: Spatial Media • Embedding accessibility via walking, cycling and public transport, reducing travel costs for all, and boosting the economic viability of local businesses and services • Delivering a people-friendly public realm, which supports community development and social interaction and provides enhanced recreation opportunities • Supporting conditions for social interaction • Supporting businesses and economic performance through a ‘critical mass’ of local residents, and easy access between home and work • Enabling housing, living and working diversity and choice • Embedding opportunities for aﬀ ordable housing and living • Reducing energy and water costs through compact, accessible development patterns - Better Placed 2017

ii Parramatta River parkland

The proposed Camellia Town Centre will transform more than 40 hectares of redundant industrial land into a vibrant and liveable place. The alienated and environmentally degraded Parramatta River frontage will become a generous, high quality and accessible riverfront parkland. The new riverfront parkland along the length of Parramatta River will enhance its regional signiﬁ cance as a great living waterway and connector for walking, cycling and ferries. Urban development will contribute to the vitality and public amenity of the riverfront where it will become not only a highly accessible central feature of the daily life of Camellia but also a connected part of Greater Parramatta.

iii Integrating with Parramatta Light Rail

Camellia Town Centre will be a new hub with the new light rail being a central element integrated into the town centre’s main central square and shopping street. The recently announced alignment for Stage 1 along Sandown freight line and grade separated above James Ruse Drive has been a generator of the town centre Master Plan.

iv Transit oriented development

Camellia will be home to some 21,000 new residents plus a daily worker and visitor population of over 5,000. It will become a signiﬁ cant centre at a scale and Artist impression of the Riverfront Parklands looking east density comparable to Burwood town centre. Density and scale has been calibrated aross the town centre with maximum scale concentrated around the light along Parramatta River rail stops and squares. Source: Spatial Media

Page 6 v Making public space

Creating the legible and accessible structure of public spaces in the Camellia Town Centre is central to a successful urban plan.

The urban environment (cities and towns) is focused on the public domain: streets and spaces that are publicly accessible and collectively belong to all of us. These are the shared places in which we recreate, play, socialise, commute, eat, watch, gather and celebrate…… …..The public domain is egalitarian – it is accessible to all and not controlled by private or commercial interests. Access is not paid and occupation is not reliant on buying drinks or shopping - Better Placed 2017

Camellia can have great streets, parks and squares that support multiple activities and events: • a riverfront esplanade terrace - that provides continuous frontage and easy access to the river parklands; • a grand avenue – reinforce the existing avenue as major city scale boulevard that provides a key east west connection between Parramatta City Centre and Homebush Bay; • a main street with light rail – a pedestrian friendly shopping street that integrates light rail as a central element; • streets opening to water and open space – a series of streets that orient to the Parramatta River and parkland ensuring open views to water, open space or sky at the end of these streets; • a central neighbourhood park - adjacent to a potential new school as well as passive local parks that serve the immediate local area; • a central town square - a gathering point that incorporates the main light rail stop and a central community building; and • streetscapes, pocket parks, landscape features and plazas designed to support a richness of human activity.

A highly connected and pedestrian friendly street and park network is proposed where walking, cycling and public transport is encouraged over the use of cars. Public transport services will include light rail services to Parramatta, Westmead and Carlingford. This may be extended to Sydney Olympic Park with the announcement of Stage 2 of Parramatta Light Rail.

The streetscape is increasingly seen as a potential useable public space for social interaction, meeting, events, children’s play and exercise. However, this multi-use approach requires careful design and management of the interface between people and traﬃ c for eﬀ ective function as well as safety and amenity in the streetscape. - Better Placed 2017

vi Density done well

Contemporary architecture and good quality public space design has the potential to shape a distinctive and memorable precinct character. Camellia Town Centre can be green and urban. Slender ‘point’ towers, of heights varying from 9 to 40 storeys, are carefully placed on high amenity corner sites to optimise sunlight into public spaces, views and privacy, and to create a varied skyline with elegant proportions. Strict controls to limit tower footprints will help to ensure high apartment amenity and provide adequate separation between towers.

vii Environmental protection and enhancement

The Camellia Town Centre Master Plan provides for enhanced ecological corridors along the Parramatta River and Duck Creek. It provides for reservation and enhancement of habitat including wetlands as critical habitat for endangered species of Downy Wattle and the Green and Golden Bell Frog.

viii Considering ﬂ ooding and contamination

Environmental constraints include fl ooding and contamination have had a signifi cant bearing on the Master Plan. Parramatta City Centre, Camellia, Rosehill, Harris Park, Silverwater and environs are all subject to fl ooding from Parramatta River and creek tributaries. Careful grading of the ground plane and the setting of ground fl oor levels is required so that there is an integration with adjacent verge levels within the main shopping areas. Flood management and drainage systems will be upgraded in accordance with best practice fl ood mitigation and management. Soil and groundwater are both contaminated and remediation, or Parramatta City Centre looking east across Camellia containment and capping of the contamination will be required in designated locations in the town centre site. Source: Greater Sydney Commission Page 7 N O R T H VIV I CTC ORO R IAI A R OAO A D P A R R A M A T T A W S U

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Page 8 THE SITE VISION & PRINCIPLES Section A outlines the site vision and principles that guided the future development of the draft Camellia Town Centre Master Plan. This Section also reviews the strategic framework that has informed the vision for the proposed Camellia Town Centre and its role in Greater Parramatta.

Figure A1.0 - Camellia Town Centre in Greater Parramatta Source: Nearmap Base APage 9 A1 The Existing Place

A1.1 Greater Parramatta Growth Area

Camellia Town Centre will be located at the centre of Greater Parramatta within the emerging metropolitan city centre, Parramatta. Greater Parramatta spans 13km east-west and 7km north-south. It covers 4,000 ha in the geographical centre of Sydney and is the heart of the Central City District.

Greater Parramatta was identiﬁ ed in the Draft Greater Sydney Region Plan October 2017 as a new Growth Area. Greater Parramatta contains areas which are expected to experience signiﬁ cant change and renewal within the coming decades.

Parramatta’s City Centre is envisaged to become a crucial place in Sydney’s economic structure. Parramatta is the geographic centre of Greater Sydney and with signiﬁ cant population growth planned in the North West and South West growth areas of Sydney, the Greater Parramatta to Olympic Park corridor will play an increasingly important civic, economic and servicing role.

Growth and investment in Greater Parramatta will help assist in addressing inequalities in western Sydney, particularly in terms of providing better access to employment by building on Greater Parramatta’s strengths in health, education and as an administrative centre.

Greater Parramatta will be supported by a network of enhanced strategic centres including Westmead and Sydney Olympic Park. Cumulatively these centres will help deliver the ‘30 minute city’ in this part of Sydney.

Greater Parramatta will be a strong link between both the eastern and Western Sydney. Connections to Sydney City Centre and the east remain important and the Greater Parramatta to Olympic Park corridor will assist in facilitating these links.

Page 10 Figure A1.1 - A Plan For Greater Sydney Source: Draft Greater Sydney Region Plan October 2017 - Greater Sydney Commission A1.2 Greater Parramatta Interim Land Use and Infrastructure Implementation Plan (LUIIP)

The LUIIP provides a framework to guide future renewal of Greater Parramatta and identiﬁ es the infrastructure needed to support this renewal.

The Greater Parramatta corridor comprises of 12 precincts which includes the following key employment nodes:

• Westmead; • Parramatta City and Parramatta North; • Camellia Town Centre; • Rydalmere including existing employment precincts; • Western Sydney University in Rydalmere • Telopea; • Silverwater industrial; • Parramatta Road (including Auburn and Granville); • Sydney Olympic Park, including the Carter St Precinct.

Each of these locations play a diﬀ erent but important economic role. Thought of as pieces of the ‘whole’ and planned and developed as such in an integrated way, these assets will become the central economic heart of the Greater Parramatta to Olympic Park corridor.

There are a signiﬁ cant number of projects set to be delivered in the Greater Parramatta area over the next decade particularly the Parramatta Light Rail (PLR) which will bring an unprecedented level of connectivity between residential, employment, cultural and education precincts within Greater Parramatta, providing a reliable and sophisticated public transport service.

Camellia Town Centre will be a new hub integrated with PLR where it will be a central element of the proposed town centre. The recently announced alignment for Stage 1 along the Sandown freight line and grade separated above James Ruse Drive has been a generator of the town centre Master Plan. The preferred option for Stage 2 has also recently been announced, including an option through the Camellia Town centra crossing the Parramatta River east of the town centre.

Camellia Town Centre is envisaged to be a 21st century living and business community, comprising oﬃ ce, research, education, retail, recreation, entertainment and residential uses.

Figure A1.2 - Greater Parramatta Growth Area Page 11 Source: Greater Parramatta Interim Land Use and Infrastructure Implementation Plan Background Analysis July 2017 A1.3 Camellia Land Use and Legend To Carlingford / Macquarie Park M4 Motorway

Infrastructure Strategy Existing Road

Preferred Road In 2015 the Department of Planning and Environment Connection and the City of Parramatta Council prepared an Potential Long Term Victoria Road Infrastructure and Land Use Strategy to guide the UWS Road Connection future redevelopment of Camellia, building on Council’s Public Transport PARRAMATTA Corridor 2014 Discussion Paper titled ‘Camellia – 21st Century CBD Business, Industry and Entertainment Precinct’. Rydalmere Existing Rail Corridor To Parramatta Existing Rail Station P Clyde Street / Subiaco Creek a Ermington The Strategy envisaged; r r Possible Freight Line Relocation Hassall Street a m Grand Avenue a tt Activity Corridor • The town centre to be an important emerging a R iv e Town Centre residential precinct, which could attract students r looking for accommodation close to the primary Rosehill Mixed Use/Residential WSU campus at Rydalmere. • The new community, and surrounding areas, will Mixed Use/ James Ruse Drive C Entertainment M4 M ly enjoy enhanced public access to the Parramatta ot d o e rw Stree Employment River through new riverfront parks, connecting the ay t Heavy Industry Precinct to Parramatta City Centre and Sydney Parramatta Road Olympic Park. Private Recreation • A revitalised Grand Avenue to act as a catalyst Duck River for a new business activity corridor capitalising on Public Recreation improved public transport and amenity. Carnarvon StreetSilverwater To Sydney Olympic Park Environmental Protection • The Parramatta Light Rail providing a safe and Wentworth Street Derby Street attractive option for short to medium length trips Precinct Boundary along the corridor with the improved access to Silverwater Road Sydney Olympic Park (SOP) providing increased Granville Junction Street attractiveness to a wide range of employment, Newington tourism, recreation and other uses that would support a diverse economic and social centre. • Walking and cycling in Camellia to be convenient, Auburn safe and enjoyable making active travel the most attractive choice for short trips.

In February 2017, the preferred alignment for Stage 1 Figure A1.3 - Camellia Precinct Lands of the Parramatta Light Rail (PLR) was announced by Source: Camellia Precinct - Land Use and Infrastructure Strategy 2015 Department of Planning & Environment the NSW Government, which services the proposed Camellia Town Centre. The preferred alignment uses the disused Sandown Freight Line and diﬀ ers from the previously proposed alignment along Grand Avenue. Parramatta Light Rail will be grade separated above James Ruse Drive, coming down to ground level in the Camellia Town Centre. This infrastructure project has signiﬁ cant implications for the urban design of the town centre and necessitates the preparation of Master Plan for Camellia Town Centre to ensure an integrated and well designed approach.

Page 12 A1.4 Hierarchy of Centres

Camellia Town Centre will be one of a number of emerging centres in Greater Sydney with a rapid increase in density. These centres sit within an existing hierarchy of which Sydney City Centre and Parramatta City Centre are the two metropolitan centres of Greater Sydney. As Parramatta grows, its geographic setting at the centre of Greater Sydney will reinforce its important economic and regional status. Beneath these metropolitan city centres are well connected strategic and local centres such as Liverpool and North Sydney, with Sydney Olympic Park and Burwood notable centres connected by heavy rail stations.

Camellia Town Centre, connected by light rail would assume a status comparable to that currently evolving in Burwood and similar centres. Therefore, built form, heights and densities should reﬂ ect this hierarchy and be matched with amenity and public transport provision.

A comparative scale analysis of centres indicates a relative position for Camellia, below. This understanding of Camellia Town Centre’s long- term role in Metropolitan Sydney has guided the approach to connections, land use and densities within the Master Plan. oor)_309m (spire) ey Towers 216m (+ spire)_53 storeys 216m (+ spire)_53 Chiﬂ 268m (top ﬂ Sydney Tower 217m_49 storeys 1 InternationalBarangaroo Tower 70m_20 storeys Existing max. LEP height 150m_49 storeys Height Max. Approved Up to 149m_45 storeys Master Plan SOPA Current Up to 125m_40 storeys Centre Camellia Town Proposed 210m(+)_70 storeys(+) Aspire 177m_55 storeys Altitude

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Figure A1.4 - Metropolitan Centres Page 13 Source: Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects A1.5 Connectivity

The natural waterways, existing rail (black) and major street networks (orange) of Greater Parramatta act as a barrier to integrating the Camellia Precinct to its adjacent urban context. Within the Precinct access is limited by a disconnected street grid and primarily caters for east - west trips, with barriers to north-south movement created by rail corridors, major roads and the Duck and Parramatta Rivers. A single signalised point of entry exists at Hassall Street only.

The delivery of key transport corridors such as north- south connections and improved active transport links could beneﬁ t the whole of Greater Parramatta.

Key initiatives include the integration of Parramatta Light Rail (light blue), the addition of bridged connections over the Parramatta River and Duck River to surrounding areas (yellow), as well as the embellishment and enhancement of riverfronts for recreational and ecological uses (green) as part of a regional network between Parramatta Park and Wentworth Point.

There is an opportunity to encourage more trips by public transport by:

• managing/reducing private parking rates; • in addition to PLR, providing improvements to the Parramatta River Ferry services to include new ferry vessels and upgraded wharves; and • extending and connecting the cycling and walking network including connecting into Sydney’s Green Grid

The announcement of Parramatta Light Rail Stage 2 preferred route could further increase connectivity from Camellia Town Centre to other areas within Greater Figure A1.5 - Greater Parramatta Movement Networks critical new street connections Parramatta Light Rail stage 1 major metropolitan roads Parramatta. Source: Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects critical open space corridors Potential light rail stage 2 (TBC) M4 motorway existing rail network

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Page 14 A1.6 Regional Open Space & The Green Grid

Located at the geographic centre of Metropolitan Sydney, the Camellia Town Centre has the ability to meaningfully connect a number of signifi cant ecological and recreational networks, as identifi ed in the NSW Government Architects Offi ce’s Green Grid. The town centre will be proximate to these signifi cant, regional natural assets:

1. Sydney Olympic Park has approximately 430 ha of parklands of regional signiﬁ cance that provide amenity to the broader area, and over 200 ha conservation areas that people can access and enjoy. 2. Parramatta Park is both the historical heart and green lungs of the Parramatta City Centre. The 85 ha open space in the heart of the city plays both an important regional and local role with over 2 million 2 3 visitors a year. 3. Parramatta River should be a great living waterway 1 and connector, where people enjoy walking, cycling and safe swimming. City of Parramatta Council and Sydney Olympic Park Authority have constructed extensive cycle and pedestrian infrastructure along the Parramatta River.

These regional natural assets along with the Sydney Green Grid and proposed Camellia Town Centre are identiﬁ ed in Figure A1.6 adjacent.

Within Greater Parramatta, the Camellia Town Centre Master Plan will provide enhanced public access to Parramatta River through new riverfront parks and a riverfront promenade, creating stronger connections between Camellia and Parramatta City Centre and Sydney Olympic Park and Wentworth Point.

Figure A1.6 Sydney Green Grid Source: Public Works - NSW Government Architects Ofﬁ ce Camellia Town Centre located with arrow

Page 15 A2 The Site

A2.1 Environment and Ecology A2.2 Flooding

The Parramatta River features a range of important environmental and conservation areas that must be Parramatta City Centre, Rosehill, Harris Park, Camellia, Silverwater and Rydalmere are subject to fl ooding safeguarded. In particular a protected wetland in the Camellia Precinct that is habitat to the endangered from Parramatta River, Duck River, Clay Cliff Creek and A’Becketts Creek. species of Downy Wattle and the Green and Golden Bell Frog; and the Duck River which is also home to endangered fl ora and fauna in Camellia. To mitigate this in the future, there is a need to ensure that fl ood management and drainage systems are upgraded as part of any renewal of the Camellia Precinct and that emergency evacuation access is The Camellia Town Centre Master Plan provides opportunities to connect and supplement ecological considered. corridors along the Parramatta River - providing re-naturalised and vegetated edges creating habitat for a range of plant and animal species, that has been aff ected by development over a many years. It is essential that any proposals for Camellia Town Centre benefi t not only the site in question but improve the resilience of the wider catchment.

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Signifi cant infrastructure such as hazard facilities and pipelines are likely to be retained around and Soil and groundwater are both contaminated in the Camellia Precinct due to past land uses with a through the Camellia Town Centre after its transformation, and the location and alignment of streets range of contaminants including asbestos, hexavalent chromium, petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated to accommodate and buff er this infrastructre is incorporated into the town centre Master Plan. All hydrocarbons, arsenic and acid sulfate soils. These present a feasibility challenge for future redevelopment development proposals and uses must consider and integrate appropriate responses to these enduring of the Camellia Town Centre. Odour has also been identifi ed as a potential issue for the Camellia Precinct constraints through the use of building articulation, off sets, orientation, interface and the like. due to some of the existing land uses within the Precinct.

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A3.1 Vision

Camellia Town Centre will become a vibrant place with a high quality riverfront parkland which is highly accessible to the local and broader community. Urban development will contribute to the vitality and To create a new town public amenity of the riverfront. Camellia Town Centre will be a place for people to visit, live, work and play. Contemporary architecture and high quality public space design will shape a distinctive town centre centre on the Parramatta character. Camellia Town Centre will have the following urban design features: River for the community • A generous Parramatta River riverfront parkland activated by a complementary mix of land uses and activities; • An integrated, permeable network of well-designed public spaces, paths and streets that support vibrant to enjoy beautiful parks public life, social interaction and high connectivity; • Buildings and structures of high architectural quality and environmental performance; and and open spaces, with • A range of apartment types and sizes, including aﬀ ordable housing options. a revitalised riverfront Camellia Town Centre will be a place that is: and active street life Distinctive; • Engage with the site’s context, and embody and enhance the special features and memory of the site as connected to Greater ‘river place’. Parramatta. Connected; Active frontages with enduring materials • Have public spaces and streets that encourage and support walking, cycling and public transport over Casba, Waterloo, Source: SJB cars and provides a connected public network of paths and streets; and • Have good access to public transport - with light rail services to Parramatta, Westmead, Carlingford and Sydney Olympic Park.

High quality; • Have buildings and spaces that have a distinctive character and environmental and design excellence.

Green and urban; • Have a rich variety of high quality public spaces and landscapes that are attractive and that support a range of activities and public events; and • Support the extension across greater Parramatta Green-Grid.

Vibrant; • have a mixture of land uses, building types, spaces and facilities that will support a vibrant community. • have a density of residents, workers and visitors that will help ensure public spaces are popular across the day and evening; and • provide for a place with a range of social and community facilities for users of all ages.

Camellia will become a signiﬁ cant centre in scale and density comparable to Burwood. Renewal will unlock access to the river, contributing to the vitality and public amenity of the riverfront and start the process of re- integrating the Camellia Town Centre into Greater Parramatta.

Density supported by robust and enduring public spaces Local streets with slow trafﬁ c and pedestrian priority Central Park, Chippendale Source: Domain Macleay Street, Potts Point, Source: DivvyParking Page 18 A3.2 Better Placed

The NSW Government Architect’s Oﬃ ce has been developing a design led approach to urban policy with the release of ‘Better Placed’. The principles and values developed in the report are also reﬂ ected in the Camellia Town Centre Master Plan.

“The design of our urban places and precincts is the starting point for how they ultimately function and perform for all. Urban design excellence delivers value in numerous ways:

• Embedding accessibility via walking, cycling and public transport, reducing travel costs for all, and boosting the economic viability of local businesses and services • Delivering a people-friendly public realm, which supports community development and social interaction and provides enhanced recreation opportunities • Supporting conditions for social interaction • Supporting businesses and economic performance through a ‘critical mass’ of local residents, and easy access between home and work • Enabling housing, living and working diversity and choice • Embedding opportunities for aﬀ ordable housing and living • Reducing energy and water costs through compact, accessible development patterns.”

The Camellia Town Centre Master Plan establishes a legible and walkable public domain network of streets, lanes, parks and squares which enshrine accessibility and encourage an active and vibrant community. The quality of the ﬁ nished public domain and the provision of mature landscape will directly contribute to both a sense of place and a local environment - supporting habitat, microclimate and social interaction.

The compact development pattern of perimetre-block and point towers promotes both density and diversity, and aﬀ ords eﬃ ciencies for shared infrastructure and community services as well as critical mass for local retail and employment opportunities.

Figure A3.2 Better Placed was launched by the Minister for Planning in August 2017 Source: NSW Ofﬁ ce of the Government Architect

Page 19 A3.3 Urban Design Principles

The following urban design principles will underpin the Master Plan and development of the Camellia Town Centres: 1. A Continuous Riverfront Parkland 2. Distributed parks and squares

Defi ne a connected series of high quality public spaces along the riverfront Provide distributed parks to cater for the varied needs and desires of future that support a wide range of activities for both day and night. These population in this high density new centre. The riverfront park, widened may include both formal and informal public spaces, with hard and soft James Ruse Drive and central parks should be utilised to manage fl ood landscaping, that will support small to large-scale gatherings. waters in a fl ood event. Parks will also provide a buff er to industrial activities that will be retained to the east of the town centre.

3. Integrated Public, Active Transport 4. Reinstate Grand Avenue Potential additional stations

Integrate a ﬂ exible, compact and amenable network of public spaces, public Create a connective street from Parramatta to Sydney Olympic Park using transport, active and recreation networks. Connect to lands north of the river, Grand Avenue. This former historic tramway has a generous alignment WSU, Rosehill Racecourse and Rosehill to the west. and will provide a grand street connecting the town centre and Rosehill Racecourse.

Page 20 5. A Trio of Great Streets 6. Maximise Streets Opening to The

Create a hierarchy of east-west streets to structure Camellia Town Centre Create an armature of north-south streets to create a sense of openess and that provide legibility through the town centre. give access to the riverfront for all future residents, workers and visitors. These streets should fall gently toward the river.

7. Retain Views Up & Down Parramatta 8. Strategic Distribution of Density

Consider silhouette, height, depth and density of buildings to preserve and Concentrate highest densities to the west around a light rail stop. Create frame views up and down the Parramatta River a built form that promotes views to the riverfront and adequate building separation to allow for increased solar access to the public domain. Tier densities down to the north, south and east. Consider the interface with adjoining employment lands, particularly to the south-east.

Page 21 Street as place “The streetscape is increasingly seen as a potential useable public space for social interaction, meeting, events, children’s play and exercise. However, this multi-use approach requires careful design and management of the interface between people and traﬃ c for eﬀ ective function as well as safety and amenity in the streetscape.” Better Placed - NSW Government Architect

Parramatta Riverfront looking south-east from Rydalmere to Sydney Olympic Park. Source: Greater Sydney Commission Page 22