The Concept Plan
The concept plan is based on an extension of the historic area of Chippendale. Chippendale is characterised by streets that form a grid pattern with buildings built to the street edge. The thoroughfares are lined with trees that complement the landscaping in other proposed areas of open space. The concept plan reinstates the historic street pattern in the formerly closed-off brewery site.
The quality of the public domain is the driving force of the proposed development.
New development is intended to accommodate a mix of residential, commercial and retail uses, as well as recreational activity in the main area of parkland and other open spaces.
Other key features of the concept plan for Frasers Broadway include:
- A new park of over 5,000 square metres benefiting all of the local area
- The retention and adaptive reuse of 29 heritage items
- A new urban square (presently know as the ‘Brewery Yard’) adjacent to the retained heritage buildings of the Irving Street Brewery
- Several new pocket parks and an integrated landscape plan for the site
- A maximum of 235,000 square metres gross floor area for all uses
- More than 40 percent of the site accessible by the public including parks, open space and other public areas
- A network of streets and lanes reintegrating the site into the wider community
- New shops and offices attracting new businesses, services and jobs to the area
- High quality residential apartments at appropriate density levels
- A new ‘high street’ for Chippendale
- A traffic management plan that directs vehicles to use the existing arterial road network and not the local streets of Chippendale
- Sustainability principles including Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD)
The proposal provides for approximately 1,689 apartments. Using the average occupancy rate for City of Sydney apartments of 1.67 people per dwelling (City of Sydney data), the site will have about 2,800 residents.
Proposed buildings heights are greatest close to the City and lower towards Chippendale, mediating between the City and inner residential areas. This means greater solar access to the main community park.
