A Plan for Campsie Town Centre The Vision Campsie is a thriving food, cultural and lifestyle destination. The Campsie Town Centre Master Plan aims to leverage on Campsie’s existing urban qualities and transform the Town Centre from a main street to a prosperous health and lifestyle precinct. With the conversion of Campsie Station to a Metro Station, the Master Plan provides the opportunity to create significant employment and housing growth within a key junction between Inner and Western Sydney. Creating a liveable, vibrant, sustainable and accessible place that supports attracting jobs and investment is central to the Master Plan. Well planned growth will help reinforce Campsie’s existing qualities. Its streets will be pedestrian friendly, lively places in the day and night, contributing to a sense of safety, attractiveness and inclusiveness. Higher density living and jobs growth will be well located around the future Metro Station and Cooks River, close to amenities, services and infrastructure. The Master Plan is an innovative framework which will set Campsie’s path of becoming a genuine health and lifestyle precinct. The Master Plan directly responds to a number of drivers for change, including: · Jobs growth, which leverages off key government and institutional investments in transport, education and health and creating a genuine health precinct surrounding Canterbury Hospital · Strengthen the retail and commercial function of Beamish Street by making it a people-centred street and drawing northsouth vehicular traffic away from its main thoroughfare.
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· Embracing the centre’s location along the Cooks River through enhanced public access along the riverfront and increased opportunities for residential living next to the river · Development of a central civic and cultural hub in the vicinity of Council’s current administration building which will bring together new and existing community and cultural facilities into a focal point for the town centre.
· Housing affordability, by providing a range of housing types, and introducing mechanisms for the delivery of affordable housing · A growing population, with diverse needs in terms of housing types and access to infrastructure and services · Demand for sustainability and resilience, improving the environmental performance of the Centre and managing the impacts of climate change
human scale and the existing urban character.
How the Master Plan Works ABOUT CAMPSIE AND THE MASTER PLAN MASTER PLAN FRAMEWORK
VISION AND PLAN
Forms the basis of the Master Plan based on Vision, Spatial Moves and Intensification Principles
VISION The vision sets the direction for the Campsie Town Centre that our community wants
Campsie will transform from a main street into a thriving lifestyle and medical precinct that brings together the vibrancy of Beamish Street, Canterbury Hospital and the amenity of the Cooks River foreshore. This evolution will be underpinned by development that responds to
11 SPATIAL MOVES Organise how the Town Centre will be structured
Campsie will become a significant centre within Canterbury-Bankstown, with significant investment in jobs and housing, which will attract
residents, visitors and workers alike. Future development
will be supported by improved transport connections, an activated
riverfront and green streets.
civic and cultural hub for inner Sydney, Campsie will become a
10 DIRECTIONS
5 INTENSIFICATION PRINCIPLES Establish the most appropriate locations for increases in density
Ten Directions lay out how Council will implement the Master Plan in key areas including infrastructure, design, jobs growth, public places and spaces, transport, sustainability, heritage and culture, housing and governance
supported by its close proximity to Central Sydney. The centre will have new and enhanced
community, arts and cultural facilities complementing a growing night time economy as a visitor destination.
