DOCSLIB.ORG

GROWING and RENEWING CENTRES Introduction

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
GROWING and RENEWING CENTRES Introduction STRATEGIC DIRECTION B GROWING AND RENEWING CENTRES Introduction Centres are the building blocks of the city and • slowing the growth of greenhouse gas emissions Concentrating provide a focus for activity and public transport. by reducing the number of car journeys needed activities in Sydney has many centres of different sizes. This to access services Strategic Direction identifies objectives and actions • reducing pressure for development to occur in centres makes for the ongoing growth and renewal of Sydney’s less accessible locations, and it easier for network of Strategic and Local centres. • creating vibrant places which operate as a focus for community activity and events, and which people to go Concentrating a greater range of activities near one help to build social inclusion about their another in centres well served by public transport makes it easier for people to go about their daily Appendix 4 includes more detail regarding the daily activities activities and helps to create lively, functional characteristics of each centre type. Strengthening and helps to places in which to live, work, socialise and invest. the City of Cities contains information regarding The benefits of concentrating activities in centres Global Sydney and the Regional Cities. Appendix 5 create lively, include: identifies Major Centres and Specialised Centres, functional • improved access to retail, office, health, and includes future directions to inform their education, leisure and entertainment facilities, planning. places in which and community and personal services to live, work, • increased opportunities for a greater diversity Sydney’s local centres consist of approximately of dwellings and more diverse communities 1,000 smaller centres currently identified in draft socialise and • encouraging collaboration, healthy competition Subregional Strategies. They will continue to play invest and innovation among businesses through an important role in accommodating much of clustering Sydney’s growth and activity. As the Subregional • making better use of infrastructure, and making Strategies are finalised, the status of Local Centres public transport improvements more viable will be reviewed, as many will have changed and • promoting sustainable and accessible transport grown over the last five years. Small Villages are and healthier communities by increasing currently included as an additional centre type in walking, cycling and public transport options for draft Subregional Strategies, but will no longer be more people by making more activities available separately identified. in one location KESBURY W RI HA VE R FIGURE B1 DISTRIBUTION OF EXISTING CENTRES ACROSS SYDNEY Rouse Hill 20 km LEGEND — NORTH WEST GROWTH CENTRE Hornsby POTENTIAL NORWEST FRENCHS Brookvale– FOREST Dee Why SPECIALISED Castle Hill CENTRE Mt Druitt PENRITH Blacktown PENRITH MACQUARIE EDUCATION PARK PLANNED & HEALTH WESTMEADWESTMEAD Chatswood MAJOR CENTRE ST LEONARDS PARRAMATTA NEPEAN RIVER SYDNEY OLYMPIC NORTH PARK SYDNEY RHODES POTENTIAL Prairiewood SYDNEY MAJOR CENTRE Fairfield Bondi Burwood Junction Green REfER to TABLE B1 Square Bankstown RANDWICK LIVERPOOL EDUCATION & HEALTH CENTRE TYPES BANKSTOWN AIRPORT –MILPERRA SYDNEY AIRPORT PORT SOUTH WEST Leppington BOTANY GROWTH CENTRE Kogarah Hurstville Sutherland Campbelltown–Macarthur PAGE 58 | METROPOLITAN PLAN fOR SYDNEY 2036 APPROX wALKING CENTRE TYPE BRIEF DESCRIPTION CATChMENT STRATEGIC GLOBAL Central Sydney & North Sydney 2 km CENTRES SYDNEY Primary focus for national and international business. A cultural, recreation and entertainment destination The NSW Government for the Sydney region has a strategic interest in the strength of these centres and REGIONAL Parramatta, Liverpool & Penrith 2 km leads their planning in CITIES Operate as the ‘capitals’ of their regions, and contain conjunction with local a full range of services and activities government MAJOR The main shopping and business centres 1 km CENTRES for their subregions SPECIALISED Perform vital economic and employment roles across 1 km CENTRES the metropolitan area. Include major airports, ports, hospitals, universities and clusters of research and business activities LOCAL Town Centres A large group of shops and services 800 m CENTRES Planning of these centres is led by Villages A group of shops and services for daily shopping 400–600 m local government in conjunction with the NSW Government Neighbourhood A small group of shops and services. The smallest 150–200 m Centres recognised centre type in this hierarchy TABLE B1 CENTRE TYPES whTS A I A CENTRE? A centre is a place where varying concentrations and combinations of retail, commercial, civic, cultural and residential uses are focused around transport facilities. Well planned and developed centres are safe and vibrant places where people enjoy spending time. The size and role of centres varies widely across the Sydney metropolitan area, contributing to a more interesting city. The key differences between centre types are the amount and type of employment and retail services. Centres are likely to grow and change from one type to another. The centre types hierarchy in Appendix 4 provides a common language and understanding about centres and their roles. The hierarchy does not restrict the character of centres from changing and is not embedded in the statutory planning system. C ENTRES POLICY U RBAN RENEwAL OF CENTRES What is the The Metropolitan Plan reaffirms the multi–centred The urban renewal of existing centres will help walking geography of Sydney identified and promoted extend the benefits of strong, vibrant centres to catchment in the 2005 Metropolitan Strategy. A centres more neighbourhoods throughout the metropolitan of a centre? approach has been and continues to be a defining area. Renewal can provide for a mixture of land uses characteristic of Sydney’s urban planning. Since the and activities, boost local economies, create better The walking catch- County of Cumberland Plan in 1948, metropolitan public spaces, provide safe and attractive places ment of a centre is planning has identified Major Centres and focused for people to gather and help provide well–located the area from which commercial and retail activities in these centres, housing. people can be expected typically on transport routes. The key elements of to walk to the centre’s our centres approach continue to be: The Department of Planning, Transport NSW and shops, services and • concentrating activity in accessible centres local councils will work together to identify centres public transport. It is • managing out–of–centre development to for urban renewal through subregional and local generally measured maximise the economic and social advantages of planning. Renewal will occur throughout Sydney as a radius from a clustered activity and will be focused within the walking catchments central point in the • making provision for the growth and urban of centres of all sizes, well served by public centre —often a public renewal of existing centres transport (Objective E3 contains further direction). transport hub such as • planning for new centres to emerge in a train station or bus appropriate locations actual walking stop. The approximate • focusing State interest and involvement in the catchment refined walking catchment success of Global Sydney, the Regional Cities, through local planning radius for each Major and Specialised Centres centre type should be • influencing the distribution and scale of land refined for each centre uses to improve transport choice and boost through local planning active transport and public transport use which recognises local • locating 80 per cent of new housing within conditions. walking catchments of centres • providing a diversity of settings for a wider range and density of housing, and • concentrating commercial activity and job fIGURE B2 CENTRE destinations in centres to achieve agglomeration, wALKING productivity benefits and improve workforce approximate CATChMENT access walking OF A CENTRE catchment RAIL CORRIDOR w ESTMEAD PAGE 60 | METROPOLITAN PLAN fOR SYDNEY 2036 C ORRIDORS Enterprise Corridors continue to play an important role on some busy roads where flexible The 2005 Metropolitan Strategy identified corridors land use controls are needed to support activities as the areas around transport routes connecting that benefit from high levels of exposure. They centres and activities. Economic corridors were may also help to buffer more sensitive uses such identified as places that would play a key role in as residential development. These corridors may the metropolitan and national economy; renewal typically permit a range of land use controls, corridors were identified as the focus for diverse although use of a B6 Enterprise Corridor Zone and liveable communities; and enterprise corridors should be limited to areas of very high traffic were identified as locations for important local volumes and where it is appropriate to allow a employment and services. flexibility of land uses to enable productive use of the road corridor. The Global Economic Corridor (also known as the Global Arc) extending from Macquarie Park to The B6 Zone will not be appropriate for all busy North Sydney and continuing through Sydney City roads and development for retail premises in this to Port Botany and Sydney Airport is recognised as zone may be able to occur where it plays the role playing a critical role in the metropolitan economy described above. The amount of retailing to be (and is addressed in Growing
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Once Upon a Time in … Ethnocratic Australia: Migration, Refugees, Diversity and Contested Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion"
    "Once upon a Time in … ethnocratic Australia: migration, refugees, diversity and contested discourses of inclusion and exclusion" Andrew Jakubowicz University of Technology Sydney Abstract To what extent can Australia be analysed as an ‘ethnocracy’, a term usually reserved for ostensibly democratic societies in which an ethnic group or groups control the life opportunities of a more widely ethnically diverse population? Australia adopted its first refugee policy in 1977 having been forced to address the humanitarian claims of Asian and Middle Eastern refugees. Only a few years after abandoning the White Australia policy of three generations, the public discourse about refugees was framed by the ethnic origins of these groups (primarily Vietnamese and Lebanese). Over the decades a utopian light has come to be cast on the Indo Chinese as a success story in settlement, while the Middle Eastern peoples have been shaded as a settlement failure. Yet the counter narratives developed in the SBS television documentary series “Once Upon a Time...” demonstrate how ethnocratic framing can be challenged and more nuanced and analytical discourses introduced into the public sphere. Introduction Attitudes to asylum seekers and refugees among Australians are said to depend on two factors – first, that the government has control of Australia’s borders and therefore the only refugees who enter have been determined to meet Australia’s sense of what a ‘good settler’ needs to be; and second, that ‘good settlers’ integrate, contribute and do not cause disharmony (Eureka Research 1998). These narratives when applied to ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ contemporary refugees reflect deeply entrenched views formed initially at the end of White Australia in the mid-1970s, when the country for the first time took non-European immigrants in significant numbers.
    [Show full text]
  • Walkability and Greenness Do Not Walk Together: Investigating Associations Between Greenness and Walkability in a Large Metropolitan City Context
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Article Walkability and Greenness Do Not Walk Together: Investigating Associations between Greenness and Walkability in a Large Metropolitan City Context Faysal Kabir Shuvo 1,* , Soumya Mazumdar 2,3 and S. M. Labib 4 1 Centre for Urban Transitions, Level 1 EW Building Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia 2 South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales Medicine, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia; [email protected] 3 Population Health Intelligence, Population Health, South Western Sydney Local Health District, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia 4 MRC Epidemiology Unit, Centre for Diet and Activity Research, University of Cambridge, Clifford Allbutt Building, Cambridge CB2 0AH, UK; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +61-47-894-2720 Abstract: Background: The existing environment literature separately emphasizes the importance of neighborhood walkability and greenness in enhancing health and wellbeing. Thus, a desirable neighborhood should ideally be green and walkable at the same time. Yet, limited research exists on the prevalence of such “sweet spot” neighborhoods. We sought to investigate this question in the context of a large metropolitan city (i.e., Sydney) in Australia. Methods: Using suburb level normalized difference vegetative index (NDVI), percentage urban greenspace, Walk Score® Citation: Shuvo, F.K.; Mazumdar, S.; (Walk Score, Seattle, WA, USA), and other data, we explored the global and local relationships of Labib, S.M. Walkability and neighborhood-level greenness, urban green space (percent park area) with walkability applying Greenness Do Not Walk Together: both non-spatial and spatial modeling.
    [Show full text]
  • Socio-Economic Profile
    Towards a resilient Sydney – Socio-economic profile Towards a resilient Sydney – Socio-economic profile CONTENTS Introduction 3 Metropolitan Sydney (Study Area) 3 Sustainable Livelihoods Framework 4 Data sources 4 Sydney - overview 5 Number of people 5 Population projections, Sydney 5 Population density 6 Age profile 6 Ageing population 7 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders 8 People born overseas 8 Gross Regional Product 8 Framework for Sydney’s growth 9 Draft Metropolitan Strategy for Sydney to 2031 9 Vision for Sydney in 2031 10 Sydney’s subregions (draft for consultation) 11 Differences between Sydney & NSW 13 Human Capital 15 Socio-economic disadvantage (SEIFA) 15 Highest level of school completed 17 Tertiary qualifications 17 School attendance 18 Language spoken at home 18 Occupation 18 Excellent, very good or self rated health 19 High or very high psychological stress 19 Overweight and obese 19 Living in smoke-free households 19 SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE 1 Asthma 19 Need for assistance 19 Social Capital 20 English language proficiency 20 Year of arrival 20 Acceptance of different cultures 20 Address one year and five years ago 20 Household types 20 Family types 20 Levels of trust 22 Unpaid assistance 23 Voluntary work and community services 23 Family and community support 24 Type of family assistance and support 24 Financial Capital 26 Working age population and workforce participation 26 Weekly personal income 27 Weekly household income 27 Industry of employment 28 Mortgage repayments (monthly) 28 Rental payments (weekly) 29 Housing
    [Show full text]
  • Fixing Town Planning Laws
    Fixing town planning laws Identifying the problems and proposing solutions Submission by the Urban Taskforce to the Productivity Commission in response to its issues paper: Performance Benchmarking of Australian Business Regulation: Planning, Zoning and Development Assessments September 2010 Contents Executive Summary .................................................................................................................................................... 5 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................... 10 1.1 This submission focuses on NSW ................................................................................................................... 10 1.2 Allan Fels report: Choice Free Zone ............................................................................................................ 14 1.3 Going Nowhere and Deny Everything reports ......................................................................................... 15 1.4 NSW Government’s own reports ................................................................................................................. 18 1.5 Anti-competitive features of the planning system.................................................................................. 19 2. The objectives of the planning system ............................................................................................................ 26 2.1 The current objectives ..................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Regional Dimensions of Innovative Activity in Outer Western Sydney
    REGIONAL DIMENSIONS OF INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY IN OUTER WESTERN SYDNEY Samantha A. Sharpe A thesis submitted to the College of Health and Science In fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy August 2007 Urban Research Centre University of Western Sydney Samantha A Sharpe © 2007 Statement of Authentication The work presented in this thesis is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, original except as acknowledged in the text. I hereby declare that I have not submitted this material, either in full or in part, for a degree at this or any other institution. Samantha A Sharpe Abstract The aim of this research is to understand the socio-economic development of a metropolitan region in Sydney through an analysis of regional innovative activity. South West Sydney, a major growth region within Sydney, includes the Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Liverpool, Campbelltown, Camden and Wollondilly. This region has absorbed 25% of Sydney’s population growth in the period from 1991-2001. Although South West Sydney has experienced rapid population growth, this has not been matched by associated employment growth. In some sectors such as business services employment growth has been minimal in the previous decade, this is particularly the case in Liverpool, the regional centre of South West Sydney. Population growth is estimated to continue at the current rate (in excess of 5% per annum) for at least the next fifteen years. In this environment, local government authorities in the region are seeking ways in which to develop the regional economy of South West Sydney and increase the amount of sustainable employment commensurably with current population and labour force increases.
    [Show full text]
  • Recovering the Gay Village: a Comparative Historical Geography of Urban Change and Planning in Toronto and Sydney
    Chapter 11 Recovering the Gay Village: A Comparative Historical Geography of Urban Change and Planning in Toronto and Sydney Andrew Gorman-Murray and Catherine J. Nash Abstract This chapter argues that the historical geographies of Toronto’s Church and Wellesley Street district and Sydney’s Oxford Street gay villages are important in understanding ongoing contemporary transformations in both locations. LGBT and queer communities as well as mainstream interests argue that these gay villages are in some form of “decline” for various social, political, and economic reasons. Given their similar histories and geographies, our analysis considers how these histor- ical geographies have both enabled and constrained how the respective gay villages respond to these challenges, opening up and closing down particular possibilities for alternative (and relational) geographies. While there are a number of ways to consider these historical geographies, we focus on three factors for analysis: post- WorldWarIIplanningpolicies,theemergenceof“cityofneighborhoods”discourses, and the positioning of gay villages within neoliberal processes of commodification and consumerism. We conclude that these distinctive historical geographies offer a cogent set of understandings by providing suggestive explanations for how Toronto’s and Sydney’s gendered and sexual landscapes are being reorganized in distinctive ways, and offer some wider implications for urban planning and policy. Keywords Toronto, Canada Sydney, Austrlia Neighborhood Gayborhood Urban Change Urban Planning· · · · · 11.1 Introduction In this chapter, we examine the historical geographies of the now iconic gay villages in Toronto’s Church and Wellesley Street district and Sydney’s Oxford Street. We argue that a comparative historical geography approach provides insights into complex A.
    [Show full text]
  • American Boomerang: Searching Aboriginal Sydney, 1928
    American Boomerang: Searching Aboriginal Sydney, 1928 Word count: 6,050 For a few short weeks in March 1928, the complex and contradictory “rules” of Australian interracial sex became front page news. “White Girls with Negro Lovers” 1 screamed one headline. T​ he catalyst was the Sonny Clay Orchestra, the first African ​ American jazz band to reach Australia, on contract to the Sydney and Melbourne Tivoli Theatre. The Commonwealth Investigation Branch (IB), alarmed by the musician’s appeal to 2 young white women, kept the band under surveillance. I​ n Melbourne, Victoria Police ​ pounced, raiding the musician’s residence and arresting five white women for vagrancy. Within twenty-four hours, the government revoked the musicians’ visa and the band were on the Sydney overnight express, ready to catch the first steamer back to California. At the same time in Canberra, the Federal government ushered in a ban on the entry of all black 3 jazz musicians that would not be lifted until 1953. R​ eturned Servicemen’s League passed ​ resolutions denouncing the “weak-minded and frivolous” white women for derailing the White Australia mission of racial homogeny.4 ​ Of little interest to the tabloid newspapers was the story of the African American musicians’ friendship with some Aboriginal Sydney women, or, at least, I assume they were Aboriginal, certainly they were described as “coloured”. I know this because, on March 23, 1928, when the overnight express pulled into Sydney’s Central Station, members of Sonny Clay’s band were met by a contingent of photographers, reporters, police and protesters — 1 2 T​ ruth, March 31, 1928, p.1.
    [Show full text]
  • Agglomeration, Centres, and District Plans for the Greater Sydney Commission
    Agglomeration, Centres, and District Plans for the Greater Sydney Commission Lessons from International Experience Prof. Greg Clark and Dr. Tim Moonen July 2016 Final This publication was prepared for the NSW Department of Planning and Environment in association with the Greater Sydney Commission for the purpose of district planning. No representation is made about the accuracy, completeness or suitability of the information in this document for any particular purpose nor should be assumed that the contents of the document represent the views of the NSW Government. The NSW Government its agents, consultants or employees shall not be liable for any damage which may occur to any person or organisation taking action or not on the basis of this publication. Readers should seek appropriate advice when applying the information to their specic needs. This document may be subject to revision without notice. Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 2. Agglomeration, clustering and the spatial economy of cities 3. Review of the economic geography of 10 Sydney peers 4. Airport district and sub-centre planning 5. Ingredients for creating new CBDs and sub-centres 1. Executive Summary This paper seeks to inform Greater Sydney’s district planning process through a review of agglomeration patterns and planning/policy approaches in other global cities. In this paper we use the term CBD to denote a primary centre and uses the term ‘sub-centres’ for all other hubs. This terminology is used to reflect Australian preferred language. We use the words ‘Greater Sydney’ to cover the whole region overseen by the planning approaches of the Greater Sydney Commission.
    [Show full text]
  • Draft Greater Sydney Region Plan
    Draft Greater Sydney Region Plan Submission_id: 31621 Date of Lodgment: 15 Dec 2017 Origin of Submission: Online Organisation name: Sydney Business Park Organisation type: Industry First name: Owen Last name: Walsh Suburb: 2765 Submission content: Please see attached two part submission. Regards Owen Walsh Number of attachments: 2 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) MarsdenParkDevelopmentsPtyLtd 15HollinsworthRoad MarsdenPark NewSouthWales2765 15December2017 GreaterSydneyCommission GPOBox257 Parramatta NewSouthWales2124 DearGreaterSydneyCommission, RE: MARSDENPARKSTRATEGICCENTRE SUBMISSIONONTHEDRAFTGREATERSYDNEYREGIONPLANAND THEDRAFTCENTRALCITYDISTRICTPLAN Introduction ThefollowingisasubmissionpreparedbyMarsdenParkDevelopmentsPtyLtd(MarsdenPark Developments)inresponsetothedraftGreaterSydneyRegionalPlanandthedraftCentralCityDistrict PlanreleasedbytheGreaterSydneyCommission,specificallyastheyrelatetotheplanningofthe MarsdenParkStrategicCentre. At566.8hectares,theMarsdenParkStrategicCentreisthelargestemploymentzoneintheNorthWestof Sydney,planningtoprovide23,500directjobs.MarsdenParkStrategicCentreistwicethesizeofthe SydneyCentralBusinessDistrictandMacquariePark,and50%biggerthanNorwestBusinessPark. MarsdenParkDevelopmentsisthedeveloperofSydneyBusinessParkͲa$2.9billion,masterͲplanned, campusstyledevelopmentwithabroadrangeofusesincludingcommercial,industrial,retail,educational andmedicalthatislocatedwithintheMarsdenParkStrategicCentre.Spanning256hectares,theSydney BusinessParkmasterplanandflexiblezoningallowstheprojecttotailortoeachincomingbusinessandbe
    [Show full text]
  • A Clean Air Plan for Sydney: an Overview of the Special Issue on Air Quality in New South Wales
    atmosphere Review A Clean Air Plan for Sydney: An Overview of the Special Issue on Air Quality in New South Wales Clare Paton-Walsh 1,2,* , Peter Rayner 3 , Jack Simmons 1,2 , Sonya L. Fiddes 3,4,5, Robyn Schofield 3 , Howard Bridgman 6, Stephanie Beaupark 1,2, Richard Broome 7, Scott D. Chambers 1,8 , Lisa Tzu-Chi Chang 9, Martin Cope 5, Christine T. Cowie 10,11,12 , Maximilien Desservettaz 1, Doreena Dominick 1,2, Kathryn Emmerson 5 , Hugh Forehead 13 , Ian E. Galbally 1,5 , Alan Griffiths 1,8 , Élise-Andrée Guérette 1,5, Alison Haynes 2,14, Jane Heyworth 12,15, Bin Jalaludin 12,16, Ruby Kan 9, Melita Keywood 5 , Khalia Monk 9 , Geoffrey G. Morgan 12,17, Hiep Nguyen Duc 9 , Frances Phillips 1,2 , Robert Popek 18 , Yvonne Scorgie 9, Jeremy D. Silver 3 , Steve Utembe 3,19, Imogen Wadlow 1,3, Stephen R. Wilson 1,2 and Yang Zhang 20 1 Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; [email protected] (J.S.); [email protected] (S.B.); [email protected] (S.D.C.); [email protected] (M.D.); [email protected] (D.D.); [email protected] (I.E.G.); [email protected] (A.G.); [email protected] (É.-A.G.); [email protected] (F.P.); [email protected] (I.W.); [email protected] (S.R.W.) 2 School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; [email protected] 3 School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia; [email protected] (P.R.); sonya.fi[email protected] (S.L.F.);
    [Show full text]
  • Marsden Park Developments Pty Ltd 920 Richmond Road Marsden Park New South Wales 2765 7 July 2017 Department of Planning & E
    Marsden Park Developments Pty Ltd 920 Richmond Road Marsden Park New South Wales 2765 7 July 2017 Department of Planning & Environment Level 5, 10 Valentine Avenue Parramatta New South Wales 2150 Dear Department of Planning & Environment, RE: MARSDEN PARK STRATEGIC CENTRE SUBMISSION ON THE DRAFT NORTH WEST PRIORITY GROWTH AREA LAND USE AND INFRASTRUCTURE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN Introduction The following is a submission prepared by Marsden Park Developments Pty Ltd in response to the draft North West Priority Growth Area Land Use and Infrastructure Implementation Plan (draft Plan) released by the Department of Planning & Environment (the Department) in May 2017, specifically as they relate to the planning of the Marsden Park Strategic Centre. At 566.8 hectares, the Marsden Park Strategic Centre is the largest employment zone in the North West of Sydney, planning to provide 23,500 direct jobs. Marsden Park Strategic Centre is twice the size of the Sydney Central Business District and Macquarie Park, and 50% bigger than Norwest Business Park. Marsden Park Developments Pty Ltd is the developer of Sydney Business Park ‐ a $2.9 billion, master‐ planned, campus style development with a broad range of uses including commercial, industrial, retail, educational and medical that is located within the Marsden Park Strategic Centre. Spanning 256 hectares, the Sydney Business Park masterplan and flexible zoning allows the project to tailor to each incoming business and be positioned for change in the market, while providing a wide range of retail amenity to both support and facilitate the diverse employment. This amenity includes a supermarket, childcare, medical centre, gymnasium, cafes and eateries, a 90,000 sqm homemaker and trade centre, all of which is adjacent to the planned 35,000 sqm Marsden Park Town Centre that SGS Economics & Planning advise can be extended to 110,500 sqm by 2036.
    [Show full text]
  • Seeking Sydney from the Ground Up: Foundations and Horizons in Sydney’S Historiography
    Seeking Sydney From the Ground Up: Foundations and Horizons in Sydney’s Historiography GRACE KARSKENS ometime in 1962, my father came home with some exciting news. I had been chosen to be part of a parade! I was to stand on the back Sof a float contributed by the Good Neighbour Council, Blacktown branch, of which Dad was an enthusiastic and active member, and later Vice President. It was a great honour! What parade? Why? I was four and can’t remember. But one thing is still clear: I had to wear ‘national costume’. I can imagine my thrilled Dad, grandly imparting this piece of information to my mother. And my mother being rather flummoxed. What on earth was our national costume? She had grown up in Indonesia. Dad was from Holland and his folks hadn’t worn ‘national costume’ for perhaps a century. Both of them were, after all, striving to be modern people in a young, modern nation. But, like lots of housewives then, Mum was a great dressmaker, so soon she was busily Sydney Journal Vol 4, No 1 (2013): 180-203 ISBN: 1835-0151 © UTSePress and the author Sydney Journal | Karskens creating her version of a suitably ‘ethnic’ outfit for me: a white skirt with coloured ribbons, sewn parallel all around the bottom, a black bolero, and bunches of coloured ribbons in my plaited hair. How proudly I stood in my ersatz national dress on the back of the float as it lumbered along Main Street, Blacktown, clutching my doll and waving to the assembled crowds! Seen from the outside, my fuzzy memory fragment might represent the success, indeed the rightness, of assimilation policies – if you were conservatively inclined.
    [Show full text]