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Subiaco Activity Centre Framework 4

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Subiaco Activity Centre Urban Design Framework 4 | August 2013

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Table of contents

01 Introduction 702 High Frequency Public Transport 903 Heritage and Character 1104 Urban Design Approach 12


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Urban Design Framework

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INTRODUCTION

Urban Design Framework 4 is provided in response to community engagement and technical stakeholder consultation.

The approach to Urban Design Framework 4 for the Subiaco Activity Centre reinforces its existing structure and emphasises the importance of improved public spaces. In this regard, Rokeby Road, Hay Street and Bagot Road form the key movement and activity spines within the activity centre.

Overlaid onto that structure is a public space framework, where focus points for activity, or hotspots, can be created within the public realm, around which activity and built form can be intensified.

The shopping experience within Subiaco exists currently within the town centre core. Given projected demand for comparison and convenience retail, it is not necessary to expand the extent to which retail activities occur. Rather, they should be consolidated

within the existing core area, and if possible, intensified around the public space hot spots.

Outside of the existing town centre zone, a mix of commercial and residential land uses will continue to occur. A range of other facilities, such as community services, will be intensified around the current civic node and through programmed events within the other public spaces throughout Subiaco.

The approach to the urban design framework takes into account:

• urban form,

• activity and

• movement;

with an overall consideration towards a more sustainable Subiaco.

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SUB REGIONAL CONTEXT

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Capital City2 Perth, West Perth, East Perth, Northbridge

Strategic Metropolitan Centres3 Cannington4 Fremantle5 Morley6 Stirling Note: other strategic metro centres not shown on this plan

Secondary Centres7 Belmont8 Booragoon9 Claremont10 Leederville11 Victoria Park12 Karrinyup Note: other secondary centres not shown on this plan

Specialised Centres12 QEII + UWA13 Curtin

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HIGH FREQUENCY PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Given Subiaco’s strong structure and its maturity, the urban design framework must respond to its strengths. With the release of the Department of Transport’s Public Transport Master Plan for Perth, light rail has been mooted, connecting along Hay Street to the Perth city, but also from Glendalough Station through Subiaco to QEII medical centre. Both these routes will reinforce Subiaco’s established pattern of development and complement its functionality as a secondary centre.

By planning for a light rail connection through the centre, past the existing train station and along Rokeby Road, connecting then onto Thomas Street, maximum transport connectivity, convenience and benefit to the activity centre can be provided. This would enable stops and interchange facilities at the Subiaco train station, one stop within the town centre on Rokeby Road and another stop adjacent to the civic node. Other stops would be contemplated south of the activity centre at appropriate locations. Having stops in these locations would benefit activity within the centre by allowing ease of access for people into Subiaco and to its retail and entertainment businesses.

Light rail on Rokeby Road would require shared running of services, and in that regard, a reorganisation of Rokeby Road to accommodate the light rail vehicles. A typical cross section for light rail requires a minimum 3.5 to 4.0 metre corridor in each direction, and generally a 1.5 to 2.0 metre median containing light rail infrastructure and catenary wires. There is opportunity to restrict the extent of overhead wires within the Subiaco town centre by providing battery packs within the vehicles and so the need to fundamentally reorganise Rokeby Road as it currently exists is lessened. However at this stage, it is not known to what extent existing trees, on street parking and existing footpaths would need to be reorganised or realigned to accommodate light rail along Rokeby Road. It is reasonable to assume that there would need to be at least some loss of on street parking to accommodate a light rail stop on Rokeby Road, for a length of around 40 to 50 metres (per stop). This would remove approximately 15 to 20 on street parking spaces on each side of the road.

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HERITAGE AND CHARACTER

Purposefully for the urban design framework, a heritage protection area will be designated for the town centre core along Rokeby Road and Hay Street. A study by Griffiths Architects has nominated a number of properties that exhibit either moderate or high heritage significance to the character of Subiaco. Each of these properties is intended to be retained, with the scale and character of Rokeby Road and Hay Street to be reinforced and complemented by any new development. In this regard, built form would need to contemplate the scale of heritage properties either on site or adjacent to them and provide the appropriate streetscape interface, generally somewhere between two to four storeys. This is not to say that new development is not to be contemplated within the heritage area, but that an appropriate character response, with an emphasis on detail of design rather than style, is provided. Contemporary built form is appropriate within Subiaco in so far as it contemplates and complements the character of Subiaco.

Behind this streetscape interface, taller development can occur, as is indicated within the urban design framework up to four storeys.

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URBAN DESIGN APPROACH

The focus for activity is Rokeby Road and Hay Street, anchored by activator points at the Subiaco train station and a southern activation point, of a different type, at the civic node. Retail and hospitality activity will continue to activate these key spines and reinforce the intended public space network throughout Subiaco. Above street level, commercial office, residential and other complementary land uses will be accommodated.

The core retail and ‘high street’ functions will be concentrated to Rokeby Road and Hay Street and around public space focus areas, with the surrounding parts of the activity centre accommodating other mixed uses, such as residential and commercial development.

Interlinked with the public space network are a number of landmark sites that act as threshold points into and out of the centre. These are also consistent with Subiaco’s existing structure, and would reinforce in a built form sense, the hot spot activity areas intended.

The landmark sites also correspond to opportunity sites which have been identified to take increased development potential so that State Policy employment and residential targets can be met. The landmark sites are located near to the train station on the Pavilion Market site and 1 Seddon Street (the northern threshold for the town centre core); other landmark sites are located at King Edward Memorial Hospital and on Hay Street, one at the existing

Colonnade Shopping Centre, the others at the Subiaco Village and the Ace Cinemas site. The landmark site at Crossways Shopping Centre will counterpoint the activity generated by the civic node; whilst the Homebase site offers opportunity to announce the town centre on the light rail entry from the north. Each of these sites could accommodate additional height and development, befitting their status as landmark sites.

The additional height afforded to these sites has been based on:

• the character of the immediate locality

• sensitivity of adjacent low-scale residential development

• impacts on overshadowing

• the intent to provide a strong and consistent street edge

• threshold points and intensification around public space focus points and

• the potential to meet State Policy targets.

More broadly across the centre, a typical street interface of four storeys is proposed. This is based on providing a comfortable pedestrian interface to the street, allowing intensification without mitigating the amenity of the centre, and acknowledging the existing local planning scheme and redevelopment scheme intent to bring development to the street.


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Other movement considerations are also important for Subiaco beyond the light rail focus. A prioritised approach to movement networks is intended for the Subiaco activity centre, whereby the pedestrian is prioritised over all other forms of transport, with cyclists second, public transport third, service and freight accessibility fourth, and the private car fifth. This is not to say that the activity centre is anti-car, but rather, pro-Subiaco and pro city life.

Enhanced cycle access through and to the town centre is proposed by designating cycle lanes on appropriate streets that will connect to the broader Perth cycle network. This will enable improved access for commuter and recreational cyclists through and to Subiaco. Pedestrian movement and comfort is critical throughout Subiaco and therefore a range of shaded streets, awnings within retail areas and passive surveillance onto well lit footpaths is to be maximised.

Given Subiaco’s function as a retail and entertainment hot spot, servicing to the businesses must continue in a facilitated way. This may mean access for service and freight vehicles into any pedestrian priority areas at appropriate times.

Finally in terms of vehicle movements, Subiaco’s permeable grid of streets means that accessibility to and through the centre will be enabled. Regional traffic will tend to be directed around the Subiaco activity centre rather than through it, to roads such as Railway Parade, Salvado Road, Roberts Road and Hay Street. There is the potential (and even likelihood) that Hay Street and Roberts Road will become two way streets in the future upon operation of the first stage of light

rail from Perth through to the QEII Medical Centre along Thomas Street. This work will require two-way traffic to be accommodated within the City of Perth and it would make sense for that functionality to continue through Subiaco at that time.

In terms of land use diversity, the urban design framework reinforces the current good performance of Subiaco’s mix and seeks to intensify employment and residential opportunities. The breakdown of new residential dwellings and commercial floor space is approximately (and over time as the centre develops):

• Additional dwellings: 2,000

• Additional residents: 2,800 (1.4 persons per dwelling)

• Gross residential density: 35 dwellings per hectare

• Additional retail floor space: 5,000 sqm

• Additional commercial floor space: 150,000 sqm

The basis for the number of residential dwellings across the activity centre is:• A more even spread of development potential across the centre

• A broader calculation of estimated additional dwellings across the whole of the activity centre

• Estimating additional residential dwellings (as opposed to commercial floor space) through redevelopment of the King Edward Memorial Hospital

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