Hawkesbury City Council Attachment 3 to item 258 Hawkesbury Employment Lands Strategy. date of meeting: 9 December 2008 location: council chambers time: 5:00 p.m. Hawkesbury Employment Lands Strategy Final Report Hawkesbury City Council December 2008 This Report has been prepared for: Hawkesbury City Council This report has been prepared by: SGS Economics and Planning Pty. Ltd. ACN 007 437 729 Suite 12/50 Reservoir St Surry Hills NSW 2010 phone: 61 2 8307 0121 fax: 61 2 8307 0126 email: [email protected] web: www.sgsep.com.au Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................................... 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 1 Policy Context ................................................................................................................... 1 Regional Economic Trends and Issues ................................................................................... 2 Strengths and Challenges .................................................................................................... 3 Strengths ................................................................................................................. 4 Challenges ............................................................................................................... 5 Employment land supply/demand gap analysis ....................................................................... 5 Strategic Planning Approach ................................................................................................ 6 1 Introduction ...................................................................... 10 1.1 Introduction to the Study and Methodology ................................................................. 10 1.2 Report Structure ..................................................................................................... 11 2 Study Area Description and Context ..................................... 12 2.1 Locational Context ................................................................................................... 12 2.2 Resident Population Profile ........................................................................................ 17 3 Policy Context ................................................................... 19 3.1 Metropolitan Strategy and Subregional Planning .......................................................... 19 3.2 Local Planning Context ............................................................................................. 33 3.3 Key Implications ..................................................................................................... 35 4 Broad Economic Trends and Drivers ..................................... 31 4.1 Regional Assets and Economic Drivers ........................................................................ 31 4.2 Regional Issues ....................................................................................................... 32 4.3 Key Implications ..................................................................................................... 39 5 Economy and Employment Profile .........................................40 5.1 Employment and Industry Profile ............................................................................... 40 5.1.1 Industry Sector Analysis .............................................................................. 40 5.1.2 Employment Concentrations ......................................................................... 45 5.1.3 Occupation Profile ...................................................................................... 52 5.2 Key Implications ..................................................................................................... 56 6 The Character and Attributes of Employment Precincts .......... 57 6.1 Supply by Precinct ................................................................................................... 57 6.1.1 Strategic Sites ........................................................................................... 57 6.1.2 Industrial Precincts ..................................................................................... 61 6.1.3 Commercial and Retail Centres ..................................................................... 73 SGS Final Report 041208.doc Table of Contents 6.1.4 Neighbourhood Centres ............................................................................... 84 6.2 Current Intensity of Employment Land Use ................................................................. 88 6.3 Summary of attributes and constraints ....................................................................... 92 6.4 Key Implications ..................................................................................................... 95 7 Land Demand and Supply Analysis ....................................... 97 7.1 Employment Floor Space Demand .............................................................................. 97 7.2 Potential Floor Space and Land Supply ....................................................................... 99 7.3 Consultation messages on employment supply constraints and opportunities. ................. 103 7.3.1 Market messages ......................................................................................103 7.3.2 Industry Survey ........................................................................................104 7.4 Demand and Supply Comparison ..............................................................................105 7.4.1 Industrial supply/demand analysis ...............................................................105 7.4.2 Business land supply/demand analysis .........................................................107 7.5 Key Implications ....................................................................................................109 8 Strategic Planning Approach ............................................. 111 8.1 Key Finding ...........................................................................................................111 8.2 Recommended Strategies ........................................................................................111 8.3 Framework for distribution of employment land uses ...................................................122 8.4 Strategy Map .........................................................................................................125 Appendices ............................................................................ 128 Appendix A: Resident Profile ............................................................................................129 Appendix B: SGS Adjustment of Employment Data .............................................................135 Appendix C: Agricultural Sector - Mushroom Farming in the Hawkesbury. ............................... 138 Appendix D: Attributes and Constraints Glossary ................................................................139 Appendix E: Potential Land Supply Calculations ..................................................................141 Appendix F: Potential Retail Floor space Demand ................................................................144 SGS Final Report 041208.doc Table of Contents Tables Table 1. Industrial Land Supply/Demand Analysis, Floor space (square metres). ...................... 6 Table 2. Business land Supply/Demand Analysis, Floor space (square metres). ........................ 6 Table 3. Housing growth and targets, Hawkesbury LGA, 1996 - 2006 ................................... 18 Table 4. Subregional Centres - Hawkesbury LGA ............................................................... 24 Table 5. Housing and Employment growth and targets, Hawkesbury LGA, 1996 - 2006 ........... 31 Table 6. Employment Capacity Targets in NW Strategic Centres / LGAs outside GC ................. 31 Table 7. Zoning Table Housing Zones and Key Housing Objectives ....................................... 34 Table 8. Regional Assets and Economic Drivers in GWS ...................................................... 31 Table 9. Housing and Employment growth and targets, Hawkesbury LGA, 1996 - 2006 ........... 40 Table 10. Key industry sub-sectors, 3 digit ANZSIC 2006 ..................................................... 43 Table 11. Location Quotient Analysis, Hawkesbury LGA against Sydney Region and North West Subregion, 2001 and 2006. ................................................................................ 44 Table 12. LGA South Travel Zones and jobs ........................................................................ 47 Table 13. LGA South Travel Zones and industry sector share................................................. 48 Table 14. Areas of expertise within key UWS Hawkesbury faculties. ....................................... 58 Table 15. UWS Student Enrolments, 2004-2006 .................................................................. 59 Table 16. UWS Hawkesbury Enrolments by field of study, 2004-2006 ..................................... 59 Table 17. Opportunities and Constraints associated with UWS Richmond ................................. 60 Table 18. Land, Floor space, FSR and Site Coverage Analysis, 2008. ...................................... 89 Table 19. Net Additional Jobs in 2031 and Future Floor Space Demand ................................... 98 Table 20. Additional floor space demand ...........................................................................