Objectives

• To expand employment floor-space, particularly for emergent industries, to meet an increased proportion of projected demand and reduce ‘escape expenditure’.

• To encourage a land use mix that services local residents, supports local businesses, while attracting ongoing investment to the centre.

• To establish a major employment anchor to support local non-tradeable activity (health, education or public administration).

• To promote an increase in the amount and diversity of housing by providing medium density housing, to energise the centre.

• To provide more employment opportunities by intensifying and expanding the range of commercial and community activities in the centre, particularly the amount of office development.

• To optimise the development potential of the Activity Centre by ensuring that individual sites are developed to their highest and best use.

• To focus retail activity in a compact core east of the Main Road.

• To support the expansion of experiential retail, dining and entertainment, growing the night time economy.

• To support a wider range of uses in the Activity Centre, particularly in parts of the BSBA, whilst protecting amenity of residential areas.

• To improve access to and integrate commercial and housing development with the railway station and its surrounds.

• To promote the provision of convenient access to daily and weekly shopping, as well as a modest amount of comparison shopping.

• To encourage the development of leisure and social opportunities which operate day and night, and at weekends.

• To encourage mixed-use developments through-out much of the Activity Centre particularly mixed use residential and office buildings.

• To reimagine and reconnect community uses.

• To create a lively and people-based centre with civic and community spaces that enhance community interaction and general health and well-being, accommodating a wide variety of community functions, including the display of community art and artefacts which reflect the artistic and cultural aspirations of the community.

Strategies

• Support the niche restaurants and active uses around the Town Square and along Commercial Place between Luck and Arthur Streets.

• Develop Commercial Place as a ‘Food Street’ whereby the local artisanal food products are showcased.

• Develop land use provisions that support a diversity of employment opportunities.

• Encourage uses that extend the hours of activity of the Activity Centre, develop an night time economy and strengthen its function as a place for living and working at the street level.

• Investigate potential sites for an education, health or public administration anchor, potentially in Precincts 1 or 5.

• Strongly advocate for a transit-oriented development (TOD) on land in Precinct 3 including uses such as commercial and residential.

• Encourage redevelopment at increased residential densities to achieve an increase of 1,108 additional dwellings within walking distance of the Activity Centre by 2036.

• Deliver a vertical mix of land uses through facilitating the use of shop tops for office, residential and other commercial uses within the main streets of the Activity Centre.

• Focus on experiential retail, dining and entertainment and night time economy and activity that will tap into existing strengths and opportunities.

• Encourage office floorspace at the first floor of mixed use developments (instead of residential).

• Consider the potential application of ACZ1 to parts of the BSBA to enable a diversification of uses including creative industries, small manufacturers, start-up businesses offices and food and drink premises such as music venues, breweries and artisanal food production (e.g. bakeries and coffee roasters).