1 Draft Master Plan

Introduction How is a master plan implemented?

master plan has included a review of the 2004 Woden Territory Plan variation a vision, planning principles and strategies to guide precinct code for the town centre is the next step of the master plan. It has been informed by strong input from the community The precinct code can address details such as building and stakeholders, including traders and lessees in the town centre, and ACT Government directorates. the town centre.

Woden town centre. It recognises Woden town centre as Sale of Territory owned land a major employment and shopping hub in the ACT that appropriate to sell for uses that meet the needs of the – and the wider region. market and community.

What is a master plan? Capital works A master plan is not a detailed design, but: Infrastructure and public space improvements may • and how its character and quality can be maintained will involve various government agencies and funding and improved • redevelop into the future Industry opportunities • It is up to the business community to take advantage of

Meet the planners: market forces will dictate when/if it is redeveloped. When: Wednesday 25 February 2015, 11.30am – 1.30pm Changes may take a number of years to occur. Saturday 28 February 2015, 10am – 2pm Where:

Have your say: plan and tell us what you think of the vision and strategies for the Woden town centre. See the full document and complete a feedback form at .

For more information: Visit: Email: [email protected] Call: Connect on 13 22 81 Comments close 15 March 2015 2 Woden Town Centre Draft Master Plan

Woden town centre study area What we heard from you.... Community engagement for this master plan includes two The study area for the Woden Town Centre Master Plan, stages, each informing the master plan as it evolves. Stage illustrated by the dashed blue line, is in the suburb of one, held from February to June 2014, involved a number Phillip and bounded by Melrose Drive, Athllon Drive, of events and activities. Your key messages included: Hindmarsh Drive and . • Traffic congestion and management needs improving. The study area includes Woden town centre, Phillip • Pedestrian and cycle connections to and within the service trades area, Athllon Drive corridor and the town centre need improving. recreation precinct north of Launceston Street. It also includes the eastern edge of the town centre, which • The town centre currently has good facilities that are underutilised due to poor connections, lack of green includes Eddison Park, Woden Cemetery, playing fields, spaces and poor amenity of public spaces. residential development and a Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) campus. • The town centre requires more vibrancy and activation, particularly after-hours and on weekends. HUGHES • There is support for high-density, mixed-use residential LYONS development as a form of housing choice, provided the buildings are of a high quality and contribute to the amenity of the public domain. Phillip Yamba DriveYamba Drive Oval • There was a diversity of views regarding building heights.

Eddison Park GARRAN • There were mixed but strong views regarding proposed

Callam Street Woden Town residential development along the Athllon Drive corridor. Centre Woden • There was mixed support for how residential development Cemetery The Canberra could be provided within the Phillip service trades area. Hospital

Melrose Drive A stage 1 community engagement report is available on the project webpage: www.act.gov.au/wodenandmawson Westfield

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Hindmarsh Drive How the draft master plan

CHIFLEY SWINGER HILL responds.... Phillip (PHILLIP) Service Your input has helped develop four planning principles that Trades will guide the development and redevelopment of the town Area centre over time: Athllon Drive Corridor Principle 1: Further diversify land use and character precincts MAWSON PEARCE Principle 2:  Improve the street network, streets and public spaces Principle 3: Provide for pedestrians and cyclists

metres 0 100 200 300 400 500 Principle 4:  Encourage a built form that positively contributes to the open spaces and streets.

Woden town centre from the National Arboretum. 3 Woden Town Centre Draft Master Plan

Challenges and opportunities Challenge: Wind and lack of activity in the town square. The main challenges and opportunities outlined on this poster bring together the background analysis and outcomes from the community engagement undertaken in the first stage of the master plan process. Opportunities identified for the Woden town centre... • Ensure the Woden town centre continues its role as an important metropolitan hub for Canberra. Challenges identified for • Enhance and improve the streets, open spaces and Woden town centre... connections. • Poor connections to surrounding suburbs. • Improve the urban design and amenity in the town • An incomplete pedestrian, cycle and open space centre through the better design of buildings and the network in the town centre. public spaces. • Large-scale buildings that do not address the street • Make the town centre more accessible for all people and provide a poor microclimate. including by walking, cycling and public transport. • A dispersed night-time economy. • Provide a better diversity of housing choice. • Parking nearing capacity. • Ensure the town centre expands opportunities as a place for working, shopping, living and recreation. • Population is anticipated to double in the suburb of • Reduce energy, water and car use in the town centre. Phillip (including the town centre) by 2032.

LEGEND LEGEND HUGHES Reserve for rapid HUGHES

public transit Glen Yarra Strong wind CURTIN Glen GlenYarra Yarra CURTIN Improve connections Poor connections Interconnect green Pedestrian and cycle spaces and improved barrier connections Creek lines Reinforce arterial roads Rear-facing buildings Yamba DriveYamba DriveImprove pedestrian environment Lack of after hours Yamba Drive Provide new residential activity Phillip Phillip Oval Improve open space Level changes L and parks Oval aun et Launceston ces Stre ton Marker building to identify entry to the Street Eddison Park centre Eddison Park GARRAN Yarralumla Creek

Town Centre Callam Street Core Town Centre PHILLIP Core PHILLIP LYONS Callam Street LYONS

Melrose Drive Melrose Drive WestfieldWestfield The Canberra Westfield The Canberra Hospital Hospital

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Hindmarsh Drive Hindmarsh Drive

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PEARCE PEARCE Drive Athllon Athllon Drive Athllon OPPORTUNITIES CHALLENGES 4 Woden Town Centre Draft Master Plan

Vision Woden town centre is a major community and commercial hub for the Woden Valley and wider Canberra region. It will be a place that attracts people to live, work, socialise and enjoy throughout the day and evenings. The town square is the central focal point for social and community activity that will connect people to a network of safe and active streets and public parks.

Character statement Spatial framework The Woden town centre is set within the Woden Valley The spatial framework sets out what the broad structure of and is a major metropolitan hub for south Canberra. the town centre could look like into the future, and shows It is well connected to other centres and is readily how land use, public domain and connections could be visible from Red Hill lookout and the National Arboretum. delivered. The framework brings together the challenges The town centre includes medium and high-rise and opportunities of the area and shapes a vision for how buildings, and pedestrian-only spaces that contribute to the town centre could adapt over the lifetime of this plan. its urban character. The shopping and services are used by local residents and the wider region. HUGHESHUGHES LEGEND CURTINCURTIN Reserve corridor for rapid transit On-road cycle lanes Recreation and Main cycle routes Living Precinct Y Planning strategies am Laneways and ba D pedestrian links riv HL The following ten key planning strategies provide e Hospital link Phillip Internal retail access

Oval et Potential shared zone guidance on key outcomes of the draft master plan: re Laun t c S GARRANGARRAN Office and eston Pedestrianised heart Accommodation Potential parks and open 1. Improve the town centre’s sustainability through the Eddison Park spaces Potential Athllon Drive design of buildings and the public domain. development Town Centre Core Potential community use PHILLIP 2. Encourage buildings that create a positive interface LYONSLYONS with the public domain. Callam Street HL Retail Core HL Precinct 3. Provide a well-connected town centre for transport Westfield HL and movement. The Canberra CIT Hospital

4. Manage parking to ensure the town centre is accessible. Melrose Drive Hindmarsh Drive 5. Activate and enhance the public domain.

6. Retain sites for future office and employment. Community Open Space and Living CHIFLEYCHIFLEY 7. Improve access to community, sport and recreation PHILLIP Precinct Service Trades facilities. Precinct 8. Encourage town centre living. 9. Improve connections and character of the Phillip MAWSONMAWSON service trades area.

10. Prepare a new vision for the Athllon Drive corridor Drive Athllon that incorporates residential development and PEARCE recreation uses. SPATIAL FRAMEWORK

Timeline for the master plan 21 February 2014 21 February to June 2014 November 2014 to February 2015 Project launch Stakeholder engagement stage 1 Community and stakeholder engagement stage 2 – draft master plan

2013 21 February to 4 April 2014 June to October 2014 February 2015 to mid 2015 Background research and analysis Community engagement stage 1 Discussion paper Preparation of draft master plan Finalise master plan and prepare and community feedback on issues and ideas draft precinct code for consultation 5 Woden Town Centre Draft Master Plan

Strategy 1: Improve the town centre’s Strategy 2: Encourage buildings that sustainability through the design of create a positive interface with the buildings and the public domain public domain The sustainability of the town centre requires an The core area will provide for a medium and high-density integrated approach to meet social, environmental and mixed-use environment. Building heights will be set to economic goals. This sustainability will enhance the local respect the landscape setting of the Woden Valley and economy, environment and community. surrounding hills and ridges. New development and redevelopment provides the Building heights will transition from the surrounding opportunity to improve overall sustainability with buildings suburban areas, focussing taller buildings around designed to provide good northerly solar orientation, the town square and office precinct. New buildings capture cooling breezes, use sustainable building materials will be designed to provide a human scale onto main and incorporate water and energy saving innovations. pedestrian areas and routes, such as Callam Street, by providing building setbacks to the upper floors. Cross-section showing how to improve the design of buildings and streets

HUGHESHUGHES LEGEND Up to 24 storeys CURTINCURTIN

Up to 16 storeys Yarra GlenYarra Glen GlenYarra Yarra Up to 12 Storeys Up to 6 storeys Up to 5 storeys Up to 3 storeys

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Launceston Yamba Drive Eddison Park

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Hindmarsh Drive Future cross section of Callam Street

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PEARCE Athllon DriveAthllon Drive DriveAthllon Athllon

BUILDING HEIGHTS 6 Woden Town Centre Draft Master Plan

Strategy 3: Provide a well-connected town Strategy 4: Manage parking to ensure the centre for transport and movement town centre is accessible All modes of transport are accommodated in the town In the long term, it is expected the majority of parking will centre, including private vehicle, public transport, walking be accommodated within individual development sites. and cycling. Melrose Drive, Hindmarsh Drive and Yamba Other ways to provide parking include managing existing Drive will be reinforced as arterial roads to divert traffic spaces, identifying sites for future structured parking and around the edges of the town centre to allow for public encouraging more sustainable modes of transport. transport to move easily along Callam Street. This includes The existing Park and Ride facility could be relocated from opportunity for future rapid public transit, including light rail. its current site in the town centre to a more appropriate Cycle and pedestrian connections will be improved by location at the edge of the centre. This will help reduce establishing a safe and direct cycle route that will make it parking pressures, reduce the need for users of the Park and easier for less confident cyclists to access the town centre by Ride facility to drive through the town centre, and allow for bike. Shared zones on Corinna Street and Bradley Street could the future development of Block 1 Section 7 Phillip (the block also help people move around the town centre more easily. bounded by Callam Street, Matilda Street and Bowes Street).

LEGEND LEGEND On-road cycle lanes HUGHESHUGHES HUGHESHUGHES Preferred sites to Potential for CURTINCURTIN CURTINCURTINGlen GlenYarra Yarra accommodate future separated cycleways structured parking

Yarra GlenYarra Glen GlenYarra Yarra Potential shared Block 1 Existing structured zones Section 104 parking (available to Pedestrianised1 heart Location for public) Shared-use paths Park and Ride Structured parking Improved bus station in short to under construction Rapid transit stops medium term Phillip Phillip Oval Hospital link Oval L aun et ces Stre Launceston Launceston ton Yamba DriveYambaGARRANGARRAN Drive Yamba DriveYamba Drive StreetStreet Eddison Park Eddison Park 1 GARRAN Block 1 Section 7 Town Centre Town Centre Callam Street Core PHILLIP The Core PHILLIP 1 Callam Street Canberra Melrose Drive The Canberra LYONSLYONS Hospital Melrose Drive hospital link LYONSLYONS Hospital WestfieldWestfield Westfield

CIT Block 2 CIT Section 105, Hindmarsh Drive Blocks 17 & 18 Hindmarsh Drive Section 15

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FUTURE CYCLE NETWORK PARKING 7 Woden Town Centre Draft Master Plan

Strategy 5: Activate and enhance the public domain Pedestrian spine in the office core precinct The public domain can be activated by: • ensuring buildings that front onto the streets and public spaces interact with pedestrians (for example through shopfronts, entrances or transparent facades) • incrementally upgrading the public domain, providing opportunity for new development in quiet areas of the town centre • introducing residential development and green spaces • encouraging a mix of uses • improving connections to key recreational spaces. Cross section through the pedestrian spine

Strategy 6: Retain sites for future office and employment Since 1991, the town centre has been a location of significant employment within the ACT. The main employers are Commonwealth Government offices and retailing. It is important the town centre continues to provide this level of employment and has the ability to grow as the wider city grows. This could include LEGEND HUGHESHUGHES Open spaces/parks retaining sites for future office development.

CURTINCURTIN Glen GlenYarra Yarra Enhance streetscape and walkways Strategy 7: Improve access to community, sport and recreation facilities In the short to medium term, it is likely that urban Phillip Oval et intensification in the town centre will lead to an increase in Lau re nc St eston Yamba Drive Eddison Park people living and working in the area, creating additional demand for community, sport and recreation facilities.

Town Centre Core PHILLIP LYONSLYONS Some strategies to improve access to community, sport

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Melrose Drive and recreation facilities include: a new connection to WestfieldWestfield The Canberra The Canberra Hospital; continued investigations for Hospital

CITCIT the new community hub and Phillip Community Health Centre; and enhancements to the public open space Hindmarsh Drive along Yarralumla Creek.

PHILLIP CHIFLEYCHIFLEY Strategy 8: Encourage town centre living Service Trades The Woden town centre (Phillip) population is anticipated to more than double by 2032. Ensuring opportunities for new residential development in the

MAWSONMAWSON town centre will be critical to achieving a sustainable and resilient town centre. As the Woden Valley mostly

Athllon DriveAthllon Drive DriveAthllon Athllon consists of single detached dwellings in a suburban PEARCE setting, it is important that a range of housing types can be provided close to public transport, employment, NETWORK OF OPEN SPACE shops and services that the town centre provides. 8 Woden Town Centre Draft Master Plan

Strategy 9: Improve connections and character Strategy 10: Prepare a new of the Phillip service trades area vision for the Athllon Drive The Phillip service trades area provides valuable services for the corridor that incorporates Woden Valley and surrounds. It is important these services are residential development and retained where possible. recreation uses The 2004 Woden Town Centre Master Plan provided a new vision Athllon Drive provides a longer-term for this precinct, introducing residential use in some areas. While opportunity for medium-density there are challenges with introducing residential into this precinct, it residential development located along a could help support local business and bring more activity outside of major transit route, close to existing bus typical business operating hours. Cycle and pedestrian connections stops, well connected to the existing cycle are recommended to be improved, particularly along Parramatta network and areas of open space and Street, Townshend Street and Botany Street. informal recreational uses. Yarralumla Creek offers opportunities Artist’s impression of Townshend Street for improvements to the open spaces to incorporate water sensitive urban design principles, flood mitigation measures and an improved quality of landscaping for use by local residents.

Concept plan for Athllon Drive

Cross-section Colbee Court

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shared-use rapid transit corridor pedestrian taller development facing lower development facing shared-use path including opportunity bridge onto Yarralumla Creek onto a landscape buffer path for light rail and Athllon Drive and shared-use path

Phillip Athllon Drive Yarralumla road and residential development that landscape buffer existing residential service Creek pedestrian transitions in building height (Swinger Hill) trades path area A.SECTION Cross-section A through proposed residential development

shared-use rapid transit corridor pedestrian bridge shared-use path including opportunity path for light rail

school grounds Athllon Drive Yarralumla road and offline pond or wetland landscape buffer existing residential Creek pedestrian path and improved open space (Mawson) B.SECTION Cross-section B through proposed pond and open space