Marrickville Town Centre summary by RK_IWC

Summary of Marrickville Town Centre Urban Design Study and Recommendations In April 2020 the Inner West Council began a series of locality based urban design studies to better understand what changes needed to be made to the existing planning controls to accommodate the housing targets set by NSW State Government for the Inner West Council area.

Purpose The uplift area of Marrickville Town Centre was identified in the adopted Local Housing Strategy (LHS) 2020 and the Local Strategic Planning Statement 2020 as an area able to accommodate additional housing growth in the short – medium term. The LHS identified Marrickville as an investigation area given its proximity Marrickville Train Station which is soon to be upgraded to a metro service, as well as good current and future active transport links.

The LHS anticipates Marrickville will grow to accommodate an additional 2,090 new dwellings over the next ten years. MARRICKVILLE MARRICKVILLE Changes to existing planning controls are needed deliver 977 of those dwellings. MARRICKVILLE own Centre Urban Design Study Town Centre Urban Design Studythe evidence-base for changes to planning controls in The Marrickville Town Centre Urban Design Study establishes

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Key Recommendations The study includes a set of recommended planning controls to facilitate this housing growth through sensitive infill development. The recommendations include changes to the Inner West Local Environmental Plan and Development Control Plan. The illustrative masterplan for the study provided below details the main changes proposed including:

Land use zoning • •

Rezoning selected areas near to the train station and high streets to R4 – High Density Residential including Greenbank Street, Church Street, Leofrene Avenue, Riverdale Avenue, Harriet Street, Fletcher Street and Albion Street Rezoning Petersham Road to B2 – Local Centre to transform it into a mixed-use high street

Floor space ratio (FSR) • •

Increasing the floor space ratio of sites on Illawarra Road, Petersham Road and selected areas near the train station and high streets Requiring new mixed-use buildings to allocate at least 0.5:1 of FSR to non-residential uses to maintain and encourage street-level commercial activity

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Increasing allowable building heights generally from 6-storeys to 8-storeys on Illawarra Road and around the train station Allowing 4 to 5-storey residential flat buildings in select areas near the train station and high streets Identifying two key sites that could facilitate 12-storey landmark buildings at Station Street and at the corner of Illawarra Road and Petersham Road Increasing allowable building heights on Marrickville Road from 20m to 23m to facilitate buildings with better amenity while maintaining the existing 6-storey height control Establishing a uniform 3-storey street wall height and requiring upper-levels to be set back 6m from the street to maintain a human scale of streets

Other recommendations • • • • • • •

Facilitating sensitive heritage redevelopment including retention of important facades on Illawarra Road and Marrickville Road Transforming Petersham Road into a shared green street that prioritises pedestrian and cyclist movements Facilitating a pedestrian lane network and public space/town square on Illawarra Road Creating new pedestrian areas and public open space on Riverdale Avenue Improving pedestrian access to existing open spaces such as McNeilly Park Improving through site links and active transport corridors such as the link between Station and Myrtle Street Establishing water sensitive streets and greater tree canopy cover such as Leofrene Avenue

Figure 3: Illustrative masterplan – showing proposed areas of change.

Water sensitive street Petersham Road transformed into a shared street

New pedestrian lane network and public space Potential supermarket location New public space

Station South - Medium density residential preccinct green character Water sensitive corridor New pedestrian zone

Heritage sensitive redevelopment New metro station Improved through site link Water sensitive corridor / green street New public pen space