Delivering a New Town Centre Nick Tobin General Manager Willoughby City Council
The Vision ~ for Chatswood Town Centre is built around a number of key themes and the elements that make up those themes: Environmental Quality • Urban Design • Streetscape • Access & Circulation
Social Equity • Social Capital • Town Centre Life
Economic Prosperity • Economic Capital • Land Use
Triple Bottom Line Performance • Environmental • Social • Economic
1943 looking North
1965 looking North
1978 looking North
1985 looking North
1995 looking North
2008 looking North
2020 looking North to the future
CBD Planning Projections Where we are now
Where we are planning to be 2031
Office floor space (Net leasable area)
301,300m2
Office vacancy rate
17%
Retail floor space (Net leasable area)
190,000m2
Yearly shopper visits
40 million
60 million
Number of dwellings
2,600
4,000
Residential population
5,500
8,500
Employment / Workforce
23,000
440,000m2 <7% 240,000m2
30,000
Strategy Key elements of current CBD strategy 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Retain strong retail role east of railway Use The Concourse as a community and business attractor Retain strong commercial office core west of railway, increasing height (52 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 90m) and FSR (10.5:1), 7000 more jobs Revitalise public domain Economic promotion and marketing Public works funding by 3% fixed levy (S94A on all new developments) Town Centre rates Northern bypass planned Medium to high density residential development around the CBD Promote public transport use by improved access
Chatswood Mall Improvements
Chatswood Mall
Chatswood Mall Markets
Welcome to The Concourse
The Concourse • • • • • • • • • •
5000 square metre public library 1000 seat Concert Hall 500 seat Theatre 506 square metre exhibition hall Studio and rehearsal rooms Support spaces Outdoor Urban Screen Outdoor amphitheatre Cafes, restaurants and retail precinct 400 car spaces located in a basement car park
The Performing Arts Centre
The Concert Hall
The Theatre
The Civic Pavilion
Chatswood Library
Chatswood Library Layout Sorting Room
Local Studies
Library Administration Public Toilets
Lending
Foyer
IT & Training
Reading ESL
Public Toilets
Group Study Rooms
Water Court Preschool & Junior Collections Young Adult
Outdoor Urban Screen
Restaurants/Retail
Restaurants/Retail
Tickets on sale • Boy From Oz • Pam Ayres • Willoughby Symphony: Ode to Joy
• Willoughby Symphony: Home for Christmas
What Can you Expect? • Creation of a Sydney Fringe Festival hub on The Concourse
• Creation of a Sydney Comedy Festival hub on The Concourse
• Entrepreneurial Activity • Community use • School performances • Leading concert promoters • Independent and Emerging Artists • Children and youth performances • Sydney Dance, the Australian Ballet, Sydney Theatre Company
• Live arts
Willoughby StreetFair 2011
Chatswood
Integrated Medical Centre