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PSP9936: STAKEHOLDERWORKSHOPS: MARCH2009: HASSELL

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Hurstville City Centre Plan Key Landholders Workshop

Prepared for Hurstville City Council 26th March 2009

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HURSTVILLE CITY CENTRE PLAN

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HASSELL Ltd 24 007 711 435 88 Cumberland Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia Telephone 61 2 9273 2300 Facsimile 61 2 9273 2345 Email [email protected] Contact: Margot Black © March 2009


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ARCHITECTURE INTERIOR DESIGN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PLANNING URBAN DESIGN

Contents


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01 Welcome and Introduction

02 Setting the Context

03 Issues and Opportunities for the Hurstville City Centre

3.1 Group Discussion

04 Confirming the Vision

4.1 Group Discussion

05 Developing the Detail (small groups)

06 Feedback and Conclusion

APPENDIX

Appendix A - List of Attendees

01 Welcome and Introduction

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1.1 Background

Key Government Stakeholders were invited to attend a workshop to develop design and planning concepts to guide the future planning and development of the Hurstville City Centre. This workshop forms part of HASSELL brief to prepare a new DCP for the Hurstville City Centre.

The workshop was undertaken at 4.00pm, on Thursday 26 March 2009 and held at the Hurstville City Council offices. A list of participants is provided in Appendix A.

1.2 Welcome and Introduction

Brett Daintry, Director of Planning and Development, Hurstville City Council, welcomed and thanked participants for their interest and involvement in the Hurstville City Centre Plan project.

Brett Daintry outlined the background of plans prepared for the City Centre and the purpose of the workshop which was to guide the development of future planning controls for the Hurstville Centre.

Margot Black, the workshop convenor invited participants to introduce themselves and provided an overview of the agenda for the workshop.

Figure 1.1: Hurstville City Centre Study Area

Study Area



2.1 Setting the Context

Craig Bagley presented and spoke to participants regarding the following background information to set the regional, subregional and local context of the Hurstville Centre.

Hurstville Centre is designated as a Major Centre in the South Sub Region Strategy.

Figure 2.1: South Sub Region Centres Strategy



Figure 2.3: The Hurstville Major Centre

As a Major Centre, the Metropolitan Strategy identifies that Hurstville will need to provide:

— Major shopping and business centre catering to at least 8,000 jobs

— Large shopping malls,

— Specialist retail, medical services,

— Taller office and residential buildings,

— Council offices,

— Central community facilities

The South Sub Region Strategy identifies that the Hurstville Centre provided for 12,900 jobs in 2001, which is projected to increase to 17,000 jobs by 2031.

HURSTVILLE A MAJOR CENTRE FOR THE SOUTH SUB REGION



Hurstville is a centre that is part of a subregional and local hierarchy of centres.

Hurstville is a centre that is characterised by its hilltop location and is defined by its topography.

Figure 2.3: Hurstville Topography

The Hurstville Local Government Area accommodated 76,912 persons in 2006. By 2031, the South Sub Region Strategy estimates that this population will increase to 93,388 persons.

Figure 2.4: Hurstville Population Forecast

Source: Hurstville City Centre Concept Master Plan, Govt Architect Office, December 2004

03 Issue and Opportunities for Hurstville City Centre


Margot Black then discussed the key issues, challenges and opportunities facing the Hurstville City Centre. These include:

CHALLENGES

The Hurstville City Centre Master Plan identified the following key challenges facing the future development of Hurstville:

— Promote intensification without detracting from amenity;

— promote good urban design outcomes;

— Allocate and protect land for commercial office use;

— promote the natural attributes of the area; and

— Improve the public transport interchange

Participants were invited to identify issues and opportunities influencing the future development of Hurstville City Centre which included the following:

CHALLENGES / ISSUES

Positive mix of businesses

Streamlined process

DA / Council Approvals

Concrete approach

Areas encouraged to develop, others not so, significantly downgraded

Encourage / give incentive for good urban design, encourage development

Stimulate

Controls promote development, incentives

Strong community centre stronger links to western / north - west Sydney

Transport i.e. railway link (really change dynamics)

Need demand for strong commercial mix

Education

Large population of Asian students - tertiary (university / college

Internal road network - convert driving main form of transport not easy - move elsewhere.

Inter-connective links

Encourage pedestrian movement

Retail ground level - active street frontage

Parking - shortage

n/w cost, expensive

Significant - Railcorp lack direction as to where going, length of and along Forest Road

03 Issue and Opportunities for Hurstville City Centre


Hurstville doesn't have a heart, visual defined centre

Need clear direction to see where other people are going

Memorial Square disaster, not positive Town Centre, embarrassing

04 Confirming the Vision


Margot Black then discussed the Vision for the Hurstville City Centre.

Vision statements identified for the Hurstville City Centre Master Plan included:

— A town on a hill

— A vibrant, attractive and bustling place to live, work, eat, shop and be entertained.

— A focus for community and civic activities

— Creating a series of civic squares and parks in the centre of the city

— Creating a new public transport interchange

Participants were then invited to identify their Vision for Hurstville, with comments including:

Defined centre

Town on a hill - unique

Opportunity with transport interchange and railway

— Sustainable city

— 4 Star Rating (NABERS min green star)

Incentive to build green

Features

— railway

— traffic: limited amount of entry / exit points into Hurstville

— Improve flow in and out

Hurstville / Kogarah need to come together

— improve link

Hurstville

— civic / community hub

— commercial

Sense of place - also economic side (heart)

Consolidating town centre and open space areas

— making focus

— not creating pocket parks

Town with a view

Cultural Identity

05 Developing the Detail


Participants were then divided into groups and asked to mark-up City Centre maps showing:

— Accessibility and pedestrian links;

— Open Space and Public Domain;

— Precincts; and

— Built Form

5.1 Accessibility and Public Domain

Kelly van der Zanden, HASSELL, provided a brief on things to think about, which are included below.

Accessibility and Pedestrian Links

— How do people move within Hurstville?

— Is it easy to identify places or is local knowledge required?

— Do buildings or streets help people move through the city or is it a combination of both?

— Are there distinctive or distinguishable connections/paths within Hurstville? What are the characteristics of these?

— Are these an experience or journey?

— What are the elements of Hurstville which should be connected? Where are the main paths? Are these paths for people, or cars, or shared zones? Do they each serve a different purpose and should they have a distinctive character?

Public Domain

— Does Hurstville have a distinctive public domain?

— Is there a central square or civic heart?

— Is there a consistent appearance to the public domain? Is it paving, or landscaping, or patterns or space?

— Is the public domain legible? Is it connected or scattered?

— Can you move easily within the public domain?

— Are there prominent features or public artworks that resonate with the character of Hurstville's public domain?

— Do buildings define public space or are the public spaces generally open, green and distant/separated from buildings?

Participants considered these elements and marked up maps identifying key accessibility and pedestrian links as well as future public domain considerations. The maps have been reproduced below.



5.2 Precincts and Built Form

Kelly van der Zanden provided a further outline as to things to think about in defining precincts and their characteristics.

Precincts

— Does Hurstville have a distinctive public domain?

— Is there a central square or heart?

— Is there a consistent appearance to the public domain? Is it paving, or landscaping, or patterns or space?

— Is the public domain space legible? Is it connected or linked?

— Can you move easily within the public domain?

— Prominent features or public artwork that resonate with the character of Hurstville?

— Do buildings define public space or are these generally open spaces, distant and separated from buildings?

Built Form

— Is there a general building style within Hurstville?

— What is the dominant height and form of development?

— Is there a pattern to the distribution of particular styles of buildings?

— Do these buildings seem to reflect the patterns of subdivision or ignore them?

— Are buildings consistent in height and scale on different sides of the street?

— Are there places in Hurstville where buildings overshadow or create the feeling of enclosure?

— Do buildings tend to stand alone or do they collect together and form a cohesive character?

— Are buildings built to the edge or set back?

— Are there blank walls and facades on many buildings? Or are some places characterises with many entrances in close proximity?

— Is there distinctive repetition of elements of buildings e.g. parapets, awnings, entrances, materials?

Participants were provided with precinct maps and asked to focus on specific precincts, their boundaries and their future character. The maps have been reproduced below.

Feedback and Conclusion


Each table of participants then presented their maps and their findings to the larger group.

Participants were thanked for their time and involvement in the workshops.

Findings from the workshop are to be collated and presented back to Council, and forwarded through to all participants.

Further feedback on the progress of the Hurstville City Centre study will be provided to all participants as the study progresses.

Appendices


Appendix A Attendees

Appendices


A T T E N D E E S Clr. Vince Badalati Mayor of Hurstville City Council Brett Daintry Hurstville City Council Ian Stewart Barker Ryan Stewart Charles Raneri Caldis Cook Group Guy McDonald Hurstville Council Ian Dreghorn Hurstville Council Nick Katris Lofty Pty Ltd Andy Chui Lofty Pty Ltd Tina Christy Hurstville City Council Victor D. Lampe Hurstville City Council Eric Sward Sydney South Gateway Pty Ltd Peter Coombes Telado Russell Lee Robert Lee Architects Pty Ltd Michael Figg Hurstville Retail Pty Ltd Matthew Matthews Chamber of Commerce David Brennan Westfield David Winley Ingham Planning Craig Edmondson Hurstville Council Amitabha Choudhury Urban Designer Lucy Ku Hua Cheng Property Harkirat Singh Hurstville City Council Carina Gregory Hurstville City Council Margot Black HASSELL Craig Bagley HASSELL Kelly van der Zanden HASSELL Ashleigh Smith HASSELL

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