• Feedback supported: – The protection of the natural landscape including
biodiversity and the Metropolitan Rural Area for food protection.
– The Liverpool Collaboration Area.
– The Penrith Collaboration including the Health and Education Precinct.
• Feedback requested: – Better integration between West & South West Districts
to deliver the emerging Western Parkland City.
– Clearer communication of the structure, boundaries and vision for each city.
• Some feedback opposed: Any growth in Greater Sydney, citing population growth as harming liveability, the environment and local character.
Vision to 2056 and Priorities Infrastructure and funding
• Feedback acknowledged: The need for Government coordination to efficiently deliver the scale of growth with high quality urban design whilst protecting and enhancing the natural landscape.
• Feedback called for: – Greater clarity around governance arrangements
for Western Sydney Airport.
– Priorities and actions which provide clarity and certainty for local planning, more definitive objectives, and performance criteria for councils and relevant agencies.
– Clear governance, delivery and implementation mechanisms to support the outcomes of the plan.
• Feedback questioned: How the Commission, councils, government agencies and the private sector will collaborate in practice.
Governance and implementation
• Feedback emphasised: – The need for greater clarity on
Western Sydney Airport supporting infrastructure, notably the need for a rail line running north-south from the airport.
– The need for jobs and social infra-structure to keep pace with growth.
• Feedback requested: – Greater detail on how this infra-
structure will be coordinated with land use planning.
– Clarity on how population growth will be supported by open space as well as social, education and health infrastructure.
• Feedback questioned: The alignment between the Commission’s priorities and the infrastructure and funding delivered by other agencies.
Western City District What we heard
Vision and priorities was one of the top 5 issues raised(27% of all issues in South West and
23% of all issues in West District)
17% of all issues raised in South West District were focused on implementation
PLANNING PRIORITY:
Planning for a city supported by infrastructure
DIRECTION:
A city supported by infrastructureInfrastructure supporting new developments
PLANNING PRIORITY:
Working through collaboration
DIRECTION:
A collaborative cityWorking together to grow a Greater Sydney Local
Environmental PlansCommunity Planning
Strategies and Policies
Liveability ImplementationSustainabilityProductivity
40 year vision
20 year plan
20 year plan
10+ year plan
Greater SydneyEconomic, social and environmental context
DistrictEconomic, social and environmental context
Council areaEconomic, social and environmental context
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District Plan
Planning Priorities and Actions
Infrastructure& collaboration
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(EP&A Act 1979)
(EP&A Act 1979)(LG Act 1993)
Community StrategicPlan
Community Strategic Plan
Western City District How we responded
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Jobs and productivity
• Feedback supported: – Opportunities to leverage the
development of Western Sydney Airport and Badgerys Creek Aerotropolis to create additional jobs.
– The creation of economic development strategies for the three cities, particularly the Western Parkland City to support the emerging Aerotropolis.
• Feedback called for: The need for an increase in job diversity and the protection of employment lands to ensure residents can live and work within the District.
Western City District What we heard
Transport and connectivity
• Feedback called for : Better transport connectivity running north-south and east-west, particularly to reduce commuting times for residents in West District.
• Feedback suggested: – A rail line running north-south through the
Western Sydney Airport, Badgerys Creek Aerotropolis and the Outer Sydney Orbital.
– That better transport connectivity would decrease current levels of locational disadvantage.
• Feedback supported: The concept of a 30 minute city but raised the need for clear definitions for which services were incorporated in the 30 minute city.
19% of top issues raised in West District and 16.5% in South West District focused
on Western Sydney Airport
18% of top issues raised in West District focused on Employment
and Urban Service Lands
Centres
• Feedback requested: Greater focus on the Macarthur Region, including a new Macarthur City supported by better transport connections.
• Feedback encouraged: – Better protection of existing industrial land uses in
the District.
– Clarification on the role, status and function of centres, including the creation of structure plans and a centres hierarchy.
– Innovation, smarter jobs, and smarter ways to work, with business located in centres across Greater Sydney.
• Feedback supported: The concentration of economic activity in centres with requests for flexibility where appropriate and an adaptive centres policy to allow for growth and change.
24% of top issues raised in West District and 23% in South West District focused
on Transport Planning
PLANNING PRIORITY W7:
Establishing the land use and transport structure to deliver a liveable, productive and sustainable Western Parkland City
DIRECTION:
A well connected cityDeveloping a more accessible and walkable city
PLANNING PRIORITY W8:
Leveraging industry opportunities from the Western Sydney Airport and Badgerys Creek Aerotropolis
PLANNING PRIORITY W9:
Growing and strengthening the metropolitan city clusterPLANNING PRIORITY W10:
Maximising freight and logistics opportunities and planning and managing industrial and urban services land
PLANNING PRIORITY W11:
Growing investment, business opportunities and jobs in strategic centres
DIRECTION:
Jobs and skills for the city
Creating the conditions for a stronger economy
Western City District How we responded
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Liveability
• Feedback emphasised: The importance of healthy urban environments as density increases, with better open space, sports facilities and walking and cycling paths.
• Feedback raised the importance of:
– Planning for liveable and healthy places.
– Healthy urban environments as density increases.
– Alignment between different government policies to manage growth.
• Feedback raised concerns: About the impact of the Western Sydney Airport and Badgerys Creek Aerotropolis on residential amenity.
• Feedback called for : Stronger protection of residential character and heritage including in the Hawkesbury and the Blue Mountains, and requested clarification of the link between Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area and the Green Grid.
Housing
• Feedback raised the importance of: Infrastructure provision to support growth.
• Feedback raised concerns about: Housing affordability and the Affordable Rental Housing Targets.
• Feedback recognised:
– The need to balance growth with maintaining the local character of neighbourhoods.
– The need for more affordable housing, although there were varying views on appropriate mechanisms including greater supply, inclusionary zoning and broader policy reform.
Western City District What we heard
PLANNING PRIORITY W3:
Providing services and social infrastructure to meet people’s changing needs
PLANNING PRIORITY W4:
Fostering healthy, creative, culturally rich and socially connected communities
DIRECTION:
A city for people
Celebrating diversity and putting people at the heart of planning
PLANNING PRIORITY W5:
Providing housing supply, choice and affordability with access to jobs and services
DIRECTION:
Housing the city
Giving people housing choices
PLANNING PRIORITY W6:
Creating and renewing great places and local centres, and respecting the District’s heritage
DIRECTION:
A city of great places
Designing places for people
Western City District How we responded
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Western City District What we heard
Efficiency and resilience
• Feedback raised concerns about:The resilience of the District and the impacts of flooding in the Nepean River Catchment, including the need for more flood-free crossings across the Hawkesbury Nepean River.
• Feedback supported:Greater Sydney becoming more efficient, with local generation of renewable energy, precinct scale energy and water infrastructure and more use of recycled water.
• Feedback called for:Greater detail about climate change andhow Greater Sydney will contribute to the aspirational long-term objective for NSWto achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
• Feedback emphasised:The need for Greater Sydney to be more resource efficient and designed for greater resilience.
Natural environment and rural lands
• Feedback supported: – Sustainability actions which aim to protect
the natural landscape including biodiversity, the Metropolitan Rural Area and the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area.
– The protection and expansion of existing open space areas, and the urban tree canopy.
– Actions to limit the impact of future development on the natural environment.
• Feedback raised concerns about:The impact the Western Sydney Airport andthe Badgerys creek Aerotropolis will have onthe natural environment.
• Feedback stressed:The need to adapt to the impacts of climatechange and move towards a future with lowergreenhouse gas emissions and less pollution.
Open space and the green grid
• Feedback supported: – Better active transport networks including
cycleways.
– A regional strategy for South Creek as a landscape framework for delivering the Western Parkland City while mitigating the urban heat island effect.
– The Green Grid as a way to provide connected open space and areas of biodiversity.
• Feedback called for:The need to protect existing open spacesand provide more green spaces and moreconnected open space corridors as GreaterSydney grows and densities increase.
16.5% of top issues raised in South West District and 16% in West
District focused on open space
PLANNING PRIORITY W12:
Protecting and improving the health and enjoyment of the District’s waterways
PLANNING PRIORITY W13:
Creating a Parkland City urban structure and identity, with South Creek as a defining spatial element
PLANNING PRIORITY W14:
Protecting and enhancing bushland and biodiversity
PLANNING PRIORITY W15:
Increasing urban tree canopy cover and delivering Green Grid connections
PLANNING PRIORITY W16:
Protecting and enhancing scenic and cultural landscapes
PLANNING PRIORITY W17:
Better managing rural areasPLANNING PRIORITY W18:
Delivering high quality open space
DIRECTION:
A city in its landscape
Valuing green spaces and landscape
PLANNING PRIORITY W19:
Reducing carbon emissions and managing energy, water and waste efficiently
DIRECTION:
An efficient city
Using resources wisely
DIRECTION:
A resilient city
Adapting to a changing world
PLANNING PRIORITY W20:
Adapting to the impacts of urban and natural hazards and climate change
Western City District How we responded
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