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Currently is served by a range of public transport options. The site is a two minute walk from George Street, where bus routes connect CBD to most outlying districts via The Town Hall, QVB Carpark in Carpark in and Wynyard interchanges. Carpark in Carpark in Light Rail runs from Lilyfield to Central, with an extension underway to Dulwich Hill. Light rail will provide direct access to the SICEEP precinct from the west, and there is an existing stop at Market City, accessing The Haymarket.

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Figure 2.5.5 Public transport connections

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Public transport & traffic Public transport & traffic Pyrmont 019 Bridge Murray Street 2.6 THE GOODS LINE (FORMERLY THE UPN)

Harbourside The Goods Line, formerly known as the Ultimo Pedestrian Network Place at (UPN) is a proposed pedestrian route that will provide a safe, grade access attractive passage from Central Station, Broadway and Ultimo to the Darling Harbour precinct. It is proposed to be expanded north of its current end point as a vital north-south connector and a strong and essential link between the Pyrmont community and Darling Harbour. Light Rail maintenance Opportunities along the Goods Line will exist for future community facility based art activities, markets and other programmed events. Students on the UTS campus, users of the Ian Thorpe swimming pool and visitors to the will be connected to the Goods Line and to The Haymarket site at an upper level within the street network of Ultimo/Pyrmont.

The Goods Line will connect to The Haymarket site at the intersection Pyrmont Street of Macarthur and Hay Street. Macarthur Street runs east -west, perpendicular to Darling Drive. Macarthur Street currently provides loading and delivery access to the Powerhouse Museum and as such is not a pedestrian accessible route. Data Centre A key principle in the delivery of The Haymarket and SICEEP precincts is to enhance pedestrian access from Harris Street and the Powerhouse, which is elevated 9 metres above the SICEEP precinct, to to & Pyrmont Tumbalong the lower areas . Utilising the existing walkway and connecting with Place at grade the Goods Line will ensure that an enhanced pedestrian connection Residential access can be made from the outset of the project.

The safety of pedestrians will be paramount within these key to Wentworth pedestrian links and throughout the site, and all CPTED principles will Park & Pyrmont Ian Thorpe Aquatic be followed in terms of lighting levels, sight lines and planting style. Centre

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2.7 OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS The principles established for upgrading the site and ensuring the best possible public domain outcome need to specifically respond to the site and the opportunities and constraints that it presents. There are many drivers and influences upon the site that can be drawn upon, notably its history, past ecologies, heritage and surrounding character. Specifically there are opportunities and objectives that can be identified and delivered upon within the ongoing stages of design. These are identified in figure 2.7.1 and will inform the design development and place making strategies for The Haymarket public domain. The constraints upon the site lay mainly with boundary and ownership issues, where fully integrated, safe and well designed outcomes are required at site interfaces and within existing transport corridors. Stormwater management and traffic/drop off requirements will also require considered design integration so as to not impact negatively upon the public domain.

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Opportunities

1 Opportunity to enhance pedestrian interaction and visual integration with Macarthur Street and the Powerhouse Museum THE Pumphouse Potential to create an activated pedestrian hub at 2 the junction of The Goods Line, Macarthur Street, Hay Street and Darling Drive 8 NOVOTEL

3 Opportunity to link with Central Station and UTS through the extension of The Boulevard 6 4 Opportunity to enhance integration of light rail and Key Views pedestrian area as a shared civic space 5 5 Opportunity to increase permeability and linkages with Chinatown and to draw upon the existing character of the surrounding laneways Chinatown 6 Opportunity to retain small park and memorial 7 artwork and integrate into the new design THE POWERHOUSE MUSEUM

Key Views 7 Opportunity to enhance driver experience of Darling Drive through articulation and landscape treatment 5 2 8 Seamless integration with the greater SICEEP precinct 1

9 Potential connection to the future Dr Chau Chak 4 Wing Building to be built in 2014 (UTS) Key Views

THE POWERHOUSE MUSEUM 2 5 3 UTS Constraints • Co-ordination and liaison with stakeholders necessary to ensure best integrated outcomes PADDY’S MARKETS • Accommodate stormwater overland flow • Successful shared zone of light rail and pedestrian area on Hay Street is dependent upon stakeholder consultation

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Figure 2.7.1 Existing site - Opportunities and Constraints diagram

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The urban landscape of Darling Harbour is dramatically different to what it once was. Once a valley forming part of the Sydney Basin, it was a landscape of sandstone escarpments, swampy foreshore and mud flats which were periodically inundated at high tide. Creeks flowed from the higher ground to the South and East of the site. The vegetation consisted of dry sclerophyll or open woodland on the higher sections with an open Sydney Turpentine –Ironbark forest upon the slopes. The alluvial soils of the valley floor supported a River Flat Forest of Eucalypts and Angophora. At the head of Cockle Bay (now the site of The Sydney Entertainment Centre (SEC)) and extending around the foreshore were swamp communities of Allocasuarina and Eucalyptus robusta. The subsequent reclamation of the foreshore and harbour has long since filled over the alluvial soils of the valley but there are stories to be told about past ecologies, lost creeks, foreshore patterns and tidal influences. Figure 3.1.1 is a composite image made up of four diagrams: these diagrams indicate the patterns of ecology, shorelines, green spaces and topography that have helped inform a design metaphor of the ‘Valley ’; the Boulevard, streets and lower pedestrian spaces make up the valleyfloor, the built form that contains those spaces are the escarpment, and the green parkland spaces proposed within the Darling Harbour precinct are a folded landscape that connects to the escarpment. This metpahor will influence the landscape design and planting palette precinct wide.

Figure 3.1.1 Composite valley floor diagram - refer to following page

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A Mudflat and associated flora New and old topography- The historic sandstone Shoreline histories - The patterns of natural Integrated landscape -the ‘valley floor’ and the escarpment (now the city suburbs of Ultimo and shoreline, harbour and reclamation parkland as ‘folded landscape’ connecting to the B Ashfield Shale slopes with swamp forest of Casuarina glauca and Pyrmont) metaphorically encroach into the valley built form Eucalyptus robusta floor in the form of the new Exhibition, Convention and Entertainment buildings, and The Haymarket. C Hawksebury sandstone slopes This metaphor has begun to define the ‘folded landscape’ that connects the valley floor (The _Lower slopes: Eucalyptus racemosa with understorey - Acacia suaveolens - Banksia spinulosa - Leptospermum attenuatum - Boulevard) to the escarpment within the Darling Leptospermum flavescens Harbour precinct. _Upper Slopes: Eucalyptus pilularis - Angophora costata with understorey - Ceratopetalum gummmiferum - Kunzea ambigua Figure 3.1.1 Composite valley floor diagram - refer to following page - Platysace lanceolata - Leptospermum attenuatum - Dianella caerulea - Themeda australis _Eucalyptus gummifera - Eucalyptus piperita

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