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Planning for the future of Warners BayTRANSCRIPT
Town Centre Structure• Focus on Dress
Circle• Walking along
shopfronts• Links to central
parking• Crossings to
Foreshore• Cycle paths
from suburbs
The bigger picture
• quality buildings and public space
• small and interesting shopfronts
• places to walk sit and meet
Good places for people
What’s important to the community?
• keep relaxed lakeside village atmosphere
• slow traffic on The Esplanade
• connections to Foreshore
• more car parking
• more business diversity
• people living in the centre
• free public Wi Fi
Feedback from the on-line community map 2013
• Tourist and residential apartments• Employment growth• More retail choice and services• Community and cultural activity
Vision for a vibrant extended hours centre
Height and Human Scale
Principles for height
• treed ridgeline • human scale and enclosure • capture potential of Dress Circle • higher buildings on larger sites• transition to lower scale residential• incentive to invest in good quality buildings
Community feedback on height
• more than 70% supported building heights the same as or more than currently permitted in areas 1, 2 & 5.
• more than 70% voted for building heights the same as or less than currently permitted in areas 3 and 4.
• buildings must be of high quality
Dress Circle Buildings
Quality buildings
Most liked building character
Building TypesNumber of Storeys
DRESS CIRCLE
Possible Development Sites
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Development Sites
What Warners Bay can achieve…
Then:• 30,000 - 35,000m2 new
retail /office • 400 - 550 new apartments• 750 – 1000 people living
in town centre
What’s needed for next 20 years:• 10,000m2 retail floor
space• 17,000m2 office floor
space
SGS Economics Report for Lifestyle 2030
Assume:1. John St: central
multi-deck carpark2. Blue sites: new
buildings with own parking
3. Dress Circle: 70% new buildings, parking in central carpark
John Street Carpark CONCEPT
• Deliver more public parking • Support new buildings on the Dress Circle• Activate John Street frontage• Deliver commercial returns
John Street Carpark FAÇADE
Quality carpark design
• Esplanade – signals at lake, King and James Streets
• John and King St turning movements
• Charles St linked to Bayview roundabout
Major Intersection upgrades
• Café terraces• Parallel parking• High quality buildings and small shop fronts• Bike safe lane and bike corrals
The Esplanade – Dress Circle
The Esplanade and Foreshore INTEGRATION
cafe dining areas
Town Centre Structure• Focus on Dress
Circle• Walking along
shopfronts• Links to central
parking• Crossings to
Foreshore• Cycle paths
from suburbs