10 moves to shape our city’s future
We put Sydney under the microscope with the city centre’s most detailed planning review in more than 4 decades.
We put Sydney under the microscope with the city centre’s most detailed planning review in more than 4 decades.
We’ve put Sydney under the microscope, examining block by block the workings of our city.
We’ve poured over the detail, analysing daily movements and connections, along with sunlight access to our significant places, parks and plazas. And we’ve looked at opportunities for areas of growth and how we can meet the infrastructure needs of our communities. This is the most detailed planning review of our city centre in more than 4 decades and it’s a vital blueprint to guiding our future growth.
For the short term, we need to lay the foundations for the road to recovery. How we plan our city will play a large role in this.
For the medium to long term, our city needs to support a further 200,000 jobs over the next 20 years, be resilient to market challenges and stimulate enterprise.
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Under our Sustainable Sydney 2030 vision, we wanted to nurture a competitive global Sydney. This updated framework aims to achieve just that, maintaining central Sydney’s role as Australia’s most productive and attractive city. Sydney needs to maintain its standing as Australian’s economic powerhouse.
Taller buildings can give us more floor space for economic purposes like commercial office space or retail. The framework shows the locations where there is opportunity for the city centre to grow, in some cases making way for buildings 300m tall, while retaining sunlight to our streets and parks.
At the same time, the plan protects our special places and open spaces – including Hyde Park, the Royal Botanic Gardens and Martin Place – and promotes sustainable outcomes and design excellence in building and public space design.
The plan will help progress our plans for 3 new civic squares along George Street at Circular Quay, Town Hall and near Railway Square. These will provide more pockets of open, community space for everyone to enjoy.
As we pave the way for a recovery from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, good urban planning will help rebuild business confidence and support jobs in small and large enterprise.
We’ve already seen how the NSW Government’s recent changes to planning legislation aims to keep people in jobs and the construction industry moving.
Long-term visioning projects such as our Central Sydney Planning Strategy are key to enabling economic growth post Covid-19, as it sets up a new planning framework that landowners can engage with for their short, medium and long term redevelopment plans.
This draft planning strategy was first considered by Council in 2016. Recent updates to the related planning controls and development contributions are new and open for feedback until Friday 10 July 2020.
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