swot summary

opportunities

One of the major opportunities across the site is to establish a north south connection and enhance the bus infrastructure within the site. Providing soft protect strategies across the site can potentially increase the green cover, decrease the impact of floods, increase connection to the country and decrease heat island effects. There is an opportunity to improve active transport infrastructure across the site, by providing better pedestrian connectivity and safe crossings. There is an opportunity to further develop the CBD along with the existing heritage items by adaptive reuse. Furthermore, attracting population through diverse and multiple-housing choices close to the CBD will fulfil the ’30-minute city’ agenda. Finally, the existing job agglomerations like health and education precinct, public administration, retail etc. offers immense scope for economic development of the upcoming CBD.

constraints

Flood is a major issue across all themes that could disrupt the functioning of the future central river city. The lack of north-south connection is a major weakness across all the themes as identified in the SWOT. The expansion of the CBD could cause problems which includes gentrification, decrease in green cover and threats to the existing heritage sites. The bus connectivity within the Parramatta CBD is poor, which could potentially disrupt the functioning of the entire city. Despite the aboriginal ownership of the land, there is a lack of celebration of aboriginal history and cultural diversity across the site.

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