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Sydney Metro Martin Place Station Precinct Planning Proposal Statement of Heritage Impact Prepared for Macquarie Capital Limited October 2017 Project number 16 1035 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tanner Kibble Denton Architects Pty Ltd | ABN 77 001 209 392 | www.tkda.com.au Sydney Level 1, 19 Foster Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010 Australia | T+61 2 9281 4399 Brisbane Suite 9A, Level 7, 141 Queen Street, Brisbane QLD 4000 Australia | T+61 7 3087 0160 Principals Alex Kibble, Robert Denton, Megan Jones, John Rose | Practice Directors George Phillips, Jocelyn Jackson, Melanie Mackenzie Senior Associates Ian Burgher, Angelo Casado, David Earp, Emma Lee, Scott MacArthur, Renata Ratcliffe, Lachlan Rowe Associates Paul Dyson, Anna Harris, Sean Williams NSW Nominated Architects Robert Denton Registration No 5782 | Alex Kibble Registration No 6015 Sydney Metro Martin Place Station Precinct • Planning Proposal CONTENTS 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Purpose of the report 1 1.2 Background 2 1.3 Report structure 3 1.4 Methodology and terminology 3 1.5 Author identifi cation 3 1.6 Documentation 3 1.7 Project team 3 1.8 Site location and description 4 1.9 Context 6 1.10 Heritage management context 8 2 Historical Background 10 2.1 The North Site 10 2.2 Martin Place 12 2.3 The South Site, 39 Martin Place 14 2.4 Early site history 14 2.5 Subsequent history 19 2.6 Former Government Savings Bank of NSW, 48-50 Martin Place 22 3 Heritage Signifi cance 24 3.1 Introduction 24 3.2 Signifi cance of listed heritage items 25 4 Description of the Proposal 28 4.1 Overview of the proposal 28 4.2 Macquarie’s Project Objectives 28 4.3 Planning Strategy Context 30 5 Assessment of Heritage Impact 31 5.1 Introduction 31 5.2 Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 32 5.3 NSW Heritage Offi ce 33 5.4 Sydney Harbour Catchment Regional Environmental Plan 2005 35 5.5 Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2012 36 5.6 Sydney Development Control Plan 2012 37 5.7 Potential impacts on neighbouring heritage items: setting and views 42 6 Heritage Development Guidelines 50 6.1 Introduction 50 6.2 Martin Place and neighbouring heritage items 50 6.3 Former Government Savings Bank of NSW, 48-50 Martin Place 52 6.4 Chifl ey Square 54 6.5 Potential impact on neighbouring heritage buildings: setting and views 55 7 Conclusions 56 APPENDIX A Martin Place Thematic History A-1 APPENDIX B Heritage Inventories B-1 Tanner Kibble Denton Architects Statement of Heritage Impact i Sydney Metro Martin Place Station Precinct • Planning Proposal ii Statement of Heritage Impact Tanner Kibble Denton Architects Sydney Metro Martin Place Station Precinct • Planning Proposal 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose of the report This Statement of Heritage Impact has been prepared to accompany a Planning Proposal submitted to the Department of Planning and Environment, pursuant to Section 55 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (EP&A Act) and the Department of Planning and Environment’s A Guide to Preparing Planning Proposals (August 2016). Macquarie Corporate Holdings Pty Limited (Macquarie) is seeking to create a World Class Transport and Employment Precinct at Martin Place, Sydney. The key objective of the Planning Proposal is to facilitate the delivery of two predominantly commercial offi ce Over Station Development (OSD) towers located above and intricately linked to the future Martin Place Metro Station (part of the NSW Government’s Sydney Metro project). Specifi cally, the Planning Proposal seeks to amend the Sydney Local Environment Plan 2012 (Sydney LEP) through enabling greater building height and fl oor space and thereby realising the Precinct’s unique opportunities. The statement identifi es and assesses potential heritage impacts associated with the proposed LEP amendments, and specifi cally, heritage impacts on subject and neighbouring heritage items, their context and setting and signifi cant views. To mitigate or minimise heritage impacts, heritage guidelines are provided for the future detailed design of the buildings. Tanner Kibble Denton Architects Statement of Heritage Impact 1 Sydney Metro Martin Place Station Precinct • Planning Proposal INTRODUCTION 1.2 Background The New South Wales Government is implementing Sydney’s Rail Future (Transport for NSW, 2012), a plan to transform and modernise Sydney’s rail network so that it can grow with the city’s population and meet the needs of customers in the future. Sydney Metro is a new standalone rail network identifi ed in Sydney’s Rail Future. The Sydney Metro network consists of Sydney Metro Northwest (Stage 1) and Sydney Metro City & Southwest (Stage 2). Stage 2 of the Metro entails the construction and operation of a new Metro rail line from Chatswood, under Sydney Harbour through Sydney’s CBD to Sydenham and eventually onto to Bankstown through the conversion of the existing line to Metro standards. The project also involves the delivery of seven new Metro stations, including Martin Place. This step-change piece of public transport infrastructure once complete will have the capacity for thirty trains an hour (one every two minutes) through the CBD in each direction catering for an extra 100,000 customers per hour across the Sydney CBD rail lines. On 9 January 2017, the Minister for Planning approved the Stage 2 (Chatswood to Sydenham) Metro application lodged by Transport for NSW (TfNSW) as a Critical State Signifi cant Infrastructure (CSSI) project (reference SSI 15_7400). TfNSW is also making provision for future Over Station Development (OSD) on the land it has acquired for the Stage 2 Sydney Metro project, including land acquired for the purposes of delivering Martin Place Station. The OSD development is subject to separate applications to be lodged under the relevant provisions of the EP&A Act. An Unsolicited Proposal submission has been lodged by Macquarie to the NSW Government for the delivery of a single fully integrated station/OSD solution for the new Sydney Metro Martin Place Station Precinct. 2 Statement of Heritage Impact Tanner Kibble Denton Architects Sydney Metro Martin Place Station Precinct • Planning Proposal INTRODUCTION 1.3 Report structure This report provides an outline historical overview of the development of the subject sites and neighbouring heritage items at Section 2. Summary statements of heritage signifi cance for each of these sites are included at Section 3. Section 4 provides a description of the proposal. The assessment of heritage impacts of the proposal is discussed at Section 5. The proposal is assessed for potential impacts against relevant planning and heritage controls and on the heritage values of subject and neighbouring heritage items. Heritage guidelines to assist in the future detailed design of buildings on the North and South sites are provided at section 6, to minimise or mitigate potential heritage impacts associated with the proposal. 1.4 Methodology and terminology This report follows the general guidelines for Statements of Heritage Impact, set out in the NSW Heritage Manual, Heritage Offi ce and Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (1996). This report also follows the methodology and terminology described in The Conservation Plan, Sydney, National Trust of Australia (NSW), 7th edition 2013 by Dr J. S. Kerr and in the Australia ICOMOS Burra Charter, 1999. 1.5 Author identifi cation This document was prepared by George Phillips, Practice Director, Roy Lumby, Senior Heritage Specialist, and Sarah-Jane Zammit, Heritage Specialist, of Tanner Kibble Denton Architects. 1.6 Documentation Documents referred to in this report include: – Planning Proposal, Ethos Urban. – The Urban Design of Sydney Metro and Martin Place Precinct, Tzannes. – View Impact Analysis Report, Sydney Metro and Martin Place Precinct, Tzannes. 1.7 Project team Client Macquarie Corporate Holdings Architects Grimshaw and Johnson Pilton Walker Architects Town Planner Ethos Urban Urban Design Tzannes Heritage Tanner Kibble Denton Architects Project Manager Savills Tanner Kibble Denton Architects Statement of Heritage Impact 3 Sydney Metro Martin Place Station Precinct • Planning Proposal INTRODUCTION 1.8 Site location and description The Sydney Metro and Martin Place Station Precinct project relates to the following properties (refer to Figure 1): North Site – 48-50 Martin Place, 9-19 Elizabeth Street, 8-12 Castlereagh Street, 5 Elizabeth Street, 7 Elizabeth Street, 55 Hunter Street. South Site – 39-49 Martin Place. Martin Place – that part bound by Elizabeth Street and Castlereagh Street. The Planning Proposal relates only to the North and South Sites. Each site will accommodate one OSD tower above the future Sydney Metro Martin Place Station (representing the northern and southern entries/gateways to the Sydney Metro station). The land acquired for the Sydney Metro Martin Place Station is the same as for the Macquarie proposal, except that the Macquarie proposal includes the two properties north of Martin Place owned by Macquarie, namely 48-50 Martin Place and 9-19 Elizabeth Street. Both the North and South Sites are regular in shape and have areas of approximately 6,022m2 and 1,897m2 respectively. Located close to the centre of the Sydney CBD, the Precinct comprises the entire City block bounded by Hunter Street, Elizabeth Street, Martin Place and Castlereagh Street; that portion of Martin Place located between Elizabeth Street and Castlereagh Street and the northern most property in the block bounded by Martin Place,