COLLABORATION AREA Liverpool Place Strategy Collaboration Area CA – Place Strategy December 2018 2 Contents 1 Introduction 4 2 The vision for the Liverpool Collaboration Area 8 3 Summary of priorities and actions 12 4 A collaborative process 14 5 Framework and response 16 6 Connectivity – priorities and actions 17 7 Liveability – priorities and actions 23 8 Productivity – priorities and actions 27 9 Sustainability – priorities and actions 32 10 Governance – priority and actions 37 11 Next steps 38 12 Appendices 40 Acknowledgement of Country The Greater Sydney Commission acknowledges the traditional owners of the lands that include the Liverpool Collaboration Area and the living culture of the traditional custodians of these lands. The Commission recognises that the traditional owners have occupied and cared for this Country over countless generations and celebrates their continuing contribution to the life of Greater Sydney. List of shortened terms ANSTO Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation RMS Roads and Maritime Services SWSLHD South Western Sydney Local Health District UOW University of Wollongong UNSW University of New South Wales WSU Western Sydney University Greater Sydney Commission | Collaboration Area – Liverpool Place Strategy 3 Foreword Roderick Simpson The Liverpool Collaboration Area Place As Liverpool transforms, we see great Environment Commissioner Strategy is a first for the planning of this potential in the development of economic great place – an effort to bring together assets and jobs creation – from the health all the different stakeholders involved in and education precinct and a greater Liverpool, and building on Council’s strong diversification of businesses in the CBD, to foundation, to set out a vision, priorities and the equine activities around Warwick Farm actions that will improve quality of life as or the existing industrial lands. Liverpool grows and changes. This Strategy recognises that the We’ve identified through our Collaboration responsibility for creating great places does Area process that we must plan for and build not rest with any one organisation – we’ve infrastructure to keep pace with population already created a new way of working within growth – without this, Liverpool will not government through the Collaboration Area offer the quality lifestyle or environment process, and we’re convinced this is key to that people deserve. better decision-making. We’re putting the Georges River at the heart In this way, we see the Place Strategy as of our thinking – it’s a great asset and we a roadmap that guides collaboration, need to use it better. The Place Strategy prioritises investment and brings together sets out actions that will make it easier outstanding expertise and local knowledge for people to access the Georges River, as Liverpool transforms. connect green links, and add to the street tree canopy. We’ve also considered better water management activities and new ways for urban renewal projects to create more sustainable places for the future. Greater Sydney Commission | Collaboration Area – Liverpool Place Strategy 4 Greater Sydney Commission | Collaboration Area – Liverpool Place Strategy 5 1 Introduction This Liverpool Collaboration Area Place Strategy was Challenges include: collectively designed by the stakeholders involved • Market interest in new residential development in planning for the future of the Collaboration Area. significantly exceeds NSW Government forecasts, Specifically, it: with planning proposals being assessed by • establishes a vision for the Liverpool Liverpool City Council equating to more than Collaboration Area, based on the community’s 30,000 dwellings, compared to the NSW vision expressed in Our Home Liverpool 2027 and Government forecast of 7,800 dwellings to 2036. the Western City District Plan • A lack of sequencing and coordination associated • identifies impediments and opportunities with the planning proposals makes it difficult for • sets priorities for the Collaboration Area infrastructure agencies to respond effectively to this growth. • identifies actions to deliver the vision. • An extensive and diverse range of government This Place Strategy will inform public and private and private stakeholders with varying objectives policy and investment decisions by identifying and for the area must coordinate their efforts to help recognising complex, place-specific issues. It has Liverpool develop as a metropolitan city. brought multiple and diverse stakeholders together • The rail and bus network requires higher to identify the complexity and interrelatedness of frequency and speed of service to meet the needs various challenges and opportunities, and allow of a metropolitan city. priorities for growth. • The constrained road network limits amenity and For these reasons, A Metropolis of Three Cities future growth. identifies Liverpool as a Collaboration Area. • There is pressure to convert existing employment Collaboration Areas are a place-based, multi- land close to the centre into predominantly stakeholder approach to solving complex urban residential uses. issues, that the Commission conducts over 12 months. The Place Strategy sets a pathway to • Local amenity, including the Georges River, needs realising Liverpool’s metropolitan role. to be improved. With these challenges comes many opportunities: 1.1 Liverpool’s complex • Liverpool City Council is an active leader in the urban challenges Collaboration Area. Growing the Liverpool CBD and surrounds into a • Liverpool is less than 20 kilometres from the new metropolitan centre, with jobs, a mix of dwellings Western Sydney Airport, and is proposed to have and a level of infrastructure appropriate to its direct access from its opening in 2026. metropolitan role, requires a deliberate and • As the home to WSA Co (the Western Sydney coordinated effort to resolve impediments to growth Airport Corporation) and Western Sydney and leverage opportunities. Investment Attraction Office, Liverpool will be an edge city for the new airport. Greater Sydney Commission | Collaboration Area – Liverpool Place Strategy 6 Introduction • Liverpool Innovation Precinct is strengthening Hargrave Park is a low rise residential area to with the recent opening of University of the north of the Liverpool City Centre and Hume Wollongong and Western Sydney University Highway, with a large proportion of Land and vertical campuses, and $740 million funding to Housing Corporation dwellings. There are some redevelop the Liverpool Health and Academic pockets of mid-rise attached dwellings. The Precinct. area is traversed by two creeks (Cabramatta and • Government assets that could be leveraged Brickmakers), which provide generous open space to meet infrastructure needs, and enhance corridors. There are two schools and a small liveability, sustainability and productivity community centre, and an underpass provides outcomes, include Liverpool and Warwick Farm access to the Warwick Farm railway station. railway stations, Liverpool bus interchange, a Sapho Road is an employment precinct that number of primary and high schools, TAFE, Land contains predominantly urban services, including a and Housing Corporation properties and the large car sales yard. Sydney Water recycling facility. Equine Precinct accommodates the large Australian • The grid street pattern provides a strong Turf Club (ATC) racecourse and associated facilities foundation for a permeable and legible city including the Inglis Hotel. environment. is a mixed use area that is • Large-scale redevelopment, coupled with Sydney Munday Street predominantly zoned for low density residential Water’s recycling facility, offers opportunities development and accommodates horse stabling and for sustainability initiatives such as recycled training facilities, interspersed with homes. The area water and stormwater management across the is impacted by industrial traffic from the industrial Collaboration Area. facilities to the south (Scrivener Street) and is • A healthy and enhanced Georges River will detached from the Liverpool City Centre by the rail improve liveability and sustainability. corridor. 1.2 Places in the Liverpool Eco/Utility contains the Sydney Water Liverpool Collaboration Area Water Recycling Facility and open space. The places that make up the Liverpool Collaboration Scrivener Street is a thriving industrial precinct Area are identified and described below, and that also contains back-of-house hospital facilities illustrated in Figure 1. and offices. Orange Grove Road is an employment precinct Georges River North is an established industrial outside Liverpool City Centre, separated by busy precinct with frontage to the Georges River to the roads and beyond walking distance of the railway east of the Liverpool railway station. Newbridge stations. Road includes smaller properties that support urban service industries. The area is prone to flooding. Liverpool City Centre – Core is the primary commercial centre for Liverpool and a mixed use Georges River South is a predominantly industrial central business district accommodating high-order precinct that surrounds an established low density retail, commercial office, government services, residential neighbourhood. The industrial sites schools and TAFE, and residential apartments. are generally smaller apart from the lots located between Moorebank Avenue and the river. The area Liverpool City Centre – Frame is a mixed use area is cut off from the Liverpool City Centre by roads, that contains Liverpool