Rozelle Interchange Urban Design and Landscape Plan Contextual Analysis and Urban Design Objectives Artists impression: Pedestrian view along Victoria Road Caption(Landscape - Image shown description at full maturity and is indicative only). 03 White Bay Power Station Urban Design Objectives 3 Contextual analysis 3.1 Contextual analysis Local context WestConnex will extend from the M4 Motorway at The Rozelle Interchange will be a predominately Parramatta to Sydney Airport and the M5 underground motorway interchange with entry and Motorway, re-shaping the way people move exit points that connect to the wider transport through Sydney and generating urban renewal network at City West Link, Iron Cove and Anzac opportunities along the way. It will provide the Bridge. critical link between the M4 and M5, completing Sydney’s motorway network. Iron Cove and Rozelle Rail Yards sit on and are adjacent to disconnected urban environments. While the character varies along the route, the These conditions are the result of the historically WestConnex will be sensitively integrated into the typical approach to building large individual road built and natural environments to reconnect and systems which disconnect suburbs and greatly strengthen local communities and enhance the reduce the connectivity and amenity of sustainable form, function, character and liveability of Sydney. modes of transport such as cycling and walking. Rather than adding to the existing disconnection, An analysis of the Project corridor was undertaken the Project will provide increased connectivity at to understand existing conditions with the following these sites. natural, built and community contexts examined: → Land use → Local Government Areas and suburbs → Connectivity → Open space → Geology → Hydrology → Soil landscapes → Vegetation → Non-Indigenous heritage → Indigenous heritage Figure 3-1: Local context & key Project elements 3—1 Geology → Alluvium associated with current drainage and/ Soil landscapes DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS or paleo channels An understanding of the geological history and The Project area is the Sydney Basin, which hosts The Soil Landscapes of the Sydney 1:100,000 The amount of disturbed terrain within the Rozelle → Residual soil derived from Ashfield Shale and highly modified soil landscape within the Project a thick Permian to Triassic-aged (300 to 200 Ma) (1989) indicates the Rozelle Interchange works are Railyards is a result of land reclamation that Hawkesbury Sandstone. boundary has influenced the Project design sedimentary succession. The Project area lies underlain by the Blacktown (REbt), Birrong (ALbg), occurred during industrialisation of Sydney approach to landscape restoration of local within the Cumberland Basin, a regional scale – Triassic Bedrock: Gymea (ERgy), Hawkesbury (COha) and Disturbed Harbour. vegetation communities and native species secondary basin. terrain (DTxx) profiles. – Wianamatta Group (i.e. Ashfield Shale) selection. New soil profiles will be designed and constructed to meet the needs of landscape works. The stratigraphy along the Project includes: – Mittagong Formation Portions of the route traverse areas are described as ‘disturbed terrain’. In these locations, the soil → Recent to Quaternary: Soils comprising → Hawkesbury Sandstone residual, alluvium and man-made fills` landscapes are generally sealed by twentieth century fill. Figure 3-2: Soil landscapes Figure 3-3: Geology 3—2 | WestConnex Rozelle Interchange • Urban Design and Landscape Plan • Urban Design Objectives Hydrology DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS The Project will implement best practice Water The Rozelle Interchange lies primarily within the Overall, the waterways are highly modified and Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) and avoid any Sydney Harbour and Parramatta River catchment. degraded in nature, with many formalised into open increase to flood levels beyond the Project The predominant waterways within the Sydney concrete channels. boundary. Storm water, within the Project will Harbour and Parramatta River catchment traversed captured through a network of swales, water quality or affected by the corridor include: The Rozelle Rail Yards currently provides a major basins, pipes and gross pollutant traps to improve flood path to Rozelle Bay. → Rozelle Bay the water quality, prior to discharge into Rozelle → Whites Creek Bay. → Iron Cove New, major swales and channels will be naturalised (where possible) to maximise filtration and green corridors for habitat creation. Heritage drain at Rozelle rail yards Existing sandstone escarpment in rail yards Existing sandstone outcrops at Jubilee Park Rozelle Bay Whites Creek Canal Figure 3-4: Hydrology 3—3 Local government areas and DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS Land use DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS suburbs → Influence the location of in-tunnel wayfinding Land use within the vicinity of the two Project → Influence the locations of built form, including related to above ground locations sites is generally a mix of commercial, industrial tunnel facilities, pedestrian bridges, open The Rozelle Interchange and Iron Cove Link sites spaces and public facilities are located within the Inner West Council and City → Design for public amenities and open space and residential. of Sydney Council Local Government areas. The around specific Inner West Council public → Influence the visual qualities of the urban design Inner West Council is a recent amalgamation of realm requirements The Iron Cove site is dominated by parkland and and landscape strategies Leichhardt, Ashfield and Marrickville Councils, residential land uses, while the Rozelle Rail Yards → Demonstrate the need for, and nature of, providing unified goals, ambitions, procedures and site is largely concerned with industrial, parkland, lateral connections policies which will have been considered. residential and transport related land uses. The tunnel alignment and above ground sites sit → Identify opportunities related to public open within the suburbs of Leichhardt, Annandale, spaces such as parks Lilyfield and Rozelle. Figure 3-5: Local Government Areas and Suburbs Figure 3-6: Land use 3—4 | WestConnex Rozelle Interchange • Urban Design and Landscape Plan • Urban Design Objectives Access and movement DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS The analysis illustrates the locations of existing → Ensure existing pedestrian, vehicular and adjoining pedestrian networks, cycleways, vehicular public transport networks are maintained, and/ and public transport routes. or improved (where feasible) → Opportunities to reconnect separated suburbs The route traverses a number of existing regional across City West Link with new pedestrian bicycle, vehicular and public transport networks. connections The Project ties in with existing and proposed pedestrian and cyclist routes. → Opportunity to create and safeguard new connections to The Bays Precinct and beyond → Ensure pedestrian and cyclist routes do not impact on any of the works provided by others, where possible. City West Link Victoria Road Sydney Light Rail Bridge (near Rozelle Bay Light Rail stop) Beatrice Bush pedestrian bridge over City West Link City West Link Figure 3-7: Pedestrian, cyclist & public transport network 3—5 Open space City West Link and are visually and physically Vegetation disjointed from the Rozelle Rail Yards site due to DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS The existing green open space is generally located the existing infrastructure and linkages. The majority of the Project footprint includes the As a result of this past disturbance, the Rozelle Rail along the shore lines or creek lines throughout the highly disturbed Rozelle Rail Yards and Iron Cove Yards & Iron Cove Link have been denuded of any → Integrate responsively with existing vegetation study area. Link. The Rozelle area has been subject to existing indigenous vegetation. and soil landscape types extensive disturbance from past activities including → Provide for planting where appropriate to create The open space areas surrounding the Iron Cove extensive quarrying of sandstone outcrops, The few remaining ecological communities are a canopied corridor Link include Callan Park, King George Park and excavation and levelling of soil and the installation scattered and for the most part follow existing creek Bridgewater Park, which are within 500m of the of rail and supporting infrastructure. Whilst at Iron lines. → Derive appearance and shape from existing proposed portal location. Cove the area was disturbed due to residential, native and cultural vegetation forms and commercial & road development. associations Surrounding the Rozelle Rail Yards Parklands, → Re-establish natural vegetations patterns and Easton Park is adjacent to the north of the site. connections within the post industrial landscape Whites Creek, Buruwan Park, Jubilee Park and the response Glebe Foreshore parklands are located south of Figure 3-9: Open space Figure 3-10: Vegetation 3—6 | WestConnex Rozelle Interchange • Urban Design and Landscape Plan • Urban Design Objectives Non-indigenous heritage The Project directly affects some listed heritage DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS items including the demolition of a stormwater canal The Project area consists of a number of non- at Rozelle, and partial demolition of other Whites → The Project will provide a design that considers indigenous heritage items and conservation areas Creek Stormwater Channel No. 95. and responds sensitively to the existing that were identified in the WestConnex M4-M5 Link industrial heritage buildings, cuttings and EIS Appendix U, with the focus concentrated