A plan for Campsie Town Centre

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. · 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

How the Master Plan Works

ABOUT CAMPSIE AND THE MASTER PLAN

VISION AND PLAN

MASTER PLAN FRAMEWORK

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

11 SPATIAL MOVES

Organise how the Town Centre will be structured

10 DIRECTIONS

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

5 INTENSIFICATION PRINCIPLES

Establish the most appropriate locations for increases in density

The Vision

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 human scale and the existing urban character.

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.

Campsie will become a civic and cultural hub for inner Sydney,

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.

The Plan

Connectivity

Proposed Strategic Streets East-West Cycle Link (Sydney Metro) Existing Vehicular Bridges/Underpasses Existing Pedestrian/Cycle Bridges Proposed Pedestrian/Cycle Bridges Key links to Burwood Potential New Pedestrian/Cycle Links/ Service Laneways Cooks River Foreshore Trail

Open Space

Existing Open Spaces Proposed Open Spaces Open Space To Be Upgraded Cooks River Foreshore Landscape Management Area

Built Environment

Corner Shop High Intensification Areas Medium Intensification Areas Medium Intensification Areas (sensitive to heritage and character) Low Intensification Areas Areas of Special Character Limited Intensification (current planning controls apply) Existing Hospital + Educational Facilities Existing Heritage Items (CLEP 2012) and properties under investigation for Heritage Significance

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1Introduction & background