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PART THREE : LEGACY ASSETS FOR NSW Millennium Parklands Turning a contaminated wasteland into parklands, protecting endangered species, creating one of the world's largest solar suburbs and implementing waste management and water conservation schemes, are highlights of the environmental achievements at Homebush Bay. The approximately 430 hectares of Millennium Parklands are a prime legacy of these initiatives, providing a showcase of broad environmental achievements. Millennium Parklands contains significant ecosystems, remediated lands and cultural sites. The rejuvenated tidal wetlands are listed on the Register of the National Estate and the remnant Cumberland Plains woodland has been gazetted as a Nature Reserve. The Parklands provides habitat for many bird species including migratory waders that are protected under international treaties. Many other plants and animals exist there, including species that are locally, regionally and nationally rare or endangered. This includes the Green and Golden Bell Frog, which colonised an abandoned quarry known as the Brickpit, and is now well established in other areas of the Park. Key features of the parklands are: • Preservation of sensitive ecological areas such as surviving woodlands, saltmarsh and wetlands, including a bird sanctuary. • Restoration and realignment of the previously contaminated watercourse. • Planting of 51,000 trees, 408,000 grass seedlings and 178,000 shrubs, with 98% of the plants being native species. • A network of up to 40 kilometres of pedestrian and cycle trails through the parklands. • Implementation of a conservation management plan for the protection of cultural heritage sites. • Solar lighting in remote areas of parklands and energy efficient lighting throughout. • Stormwater run-off collected, stored and used to irrigate the Parklands, the venues and the suburb of Newington. Millennium Parklands offers a ‘living model’ of great historical significance for Australians. There is evidence of traditional uses by Indigenous peoples; European arrival and settlement; quarrying and the establishment of the State Brickworks; the heritage of the former Royal Australian Naval Armaments Depot as a key part of the wartime defence of the Pacific region; development of various industries (including the commercial production of chemicals with associated pollution); waste disposal; and, most recently, remediation and redevelopment of the site for sporting and recreation activities, with fibre optic cabling taking the Olympics and Sydney Olympic Park to a global audience. Millennium Parklands will be the focus of many new programs, to be delivered in the venues, in schools, or through the website. Complementing the general community access for recreational purposes, many programs of a recreational and educational nature are being developed within the context of the natural and built environment. Bicentennial Park Bicentennial Park was established in 1988 and integrated with Millennium Parklands in 2001, enhancing the features of Sydney Olympic Park in a number of ways. The inclusion of Bicentennial Park has made Millennium Parklands one of the largest and one of the most complex urban parks in the world. Physically, Bicentennial Park comprises both an extensive wetland area and a large expanse of grassland, and contains a relatively benign area of remediated land. These features have provided the basis of a range of programs including a primary and secondary school education program, which has consistently attracted around 20,000 students per annum to visit the Park for curriculum-related purposes. A range of scientific programs has also been successfully established, relating to wetland management, bird monitoring and others of ecological significance. These programs have been undertaken under scientific 35
PART THREE : LEGACY ASSETS FOR NSW peer review to ensure their validity. Drawing on all this expertise, a number of popular and specialist tours of the Park have been successfully developed. Of wider interest to the community are the passive recreational facilities, which have drawn very significant numbers of picnickers to the park from across Sydney and beyond. Annual visitation rates of around 800,000 have been achieved. Complementing this has been the use of the Park for a range of public and private community events. The Suburb of Newington The suburb of Newington was created as part of the Olympic development. For the first time in a modern Olympic Games, all athletes of every sport were able to live in the one Athletes Village during the Sydney 2000 Games. That Village was located on 84 ha of land at Newington next to Sydney Olympic Park, which had been formerly used as the Royal Australian Navy's Armaments Depot. The Athletes Village was planned to become Newington following the completion of the Games, home to 5,000 to 6,000 people and the world's largest solar-powered suburb. The suburb of Newington comprises three residential precincts, a shopping centre and a business park. When fully developed, it will comprise in the order of 2,050 dwellings and a total of 1,100 houses and apartments have been constructed to date. The retail centre, which includes a supermarket, a service station and a range of specialty shops opened in August 2001. The primary school has been completed and opened at the commencement of the 2002 academic year. The community centre was operational by the end of 2001. Environmental design principles incorporated in Newington's construction included alternative energy production from solar powered housing, low-impact transport, recycling of water and waste, and educational information provided to residents about the benefits of being, and ways to be, environmentally conscious. NSW agreed in 1995 to acquire the Village site from the Commonwealth Government. The Mirvac Lend Lease Village Consortium designed, constructed and financed the Village, and construction was completed in early 2000. The State Government's cost on top of the acquisition and remediation of the land was limited to under $50 million, while the total cost of the project to the Consortium was approximately $470 million. Stadium Australia The Stadium is the centrepiece of the Sydney Olympic Park site and was the main venue, in terms of crowd capacity, for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. It is the largest stadium ever built for an Olympics with a seating capacity in excess of 110,000. Following the Games, the Stadium is being reconfigured to a seating capacity of 80,000. The reconfiguration will bring spectators closer to the field of play and nearly all seating areas will be roofed. A key design feature of the Stadium is the translucent, saddle-shaped roof, which has been developed to suit Australian conditions by allowing maximum natural light for player and spectator visibility. Stadium Australia in its final configuration will be one of the few stadia in the world, which effectively shades and protects most spectators without creating the claustrophobic feel of a fully enclosed dome. 36
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