CockburnCoast - Western Australian Planning Commission

CockburnCoast
• The key local retail activity is to occur along Cockburn
Road in a vibrant ‘main street’ setting. A minimum of
5000m2 of retail is expected in this location. Mall-based
retail formats will not be supported.
• The switchyard is encouraged to be relocated, subject to
funding, and redeveloped for a mix of residential and
hospitality uses. Should the switchyard remain, it should
be bordered by screened parking structures and
appropriately controlled residential and short-stay
accommodation.
• The Power Station precinct is the preferred location for
short stay and hotel accommodation within the Cockburn
Coast area.
• The precinct will be dominated by the power station
building, with the ultimate uses of the building requiring
detailed analysis and an open consideration of options.
The use of the building and its immediate cartilage must
have an emphasis on community-based outcomes.
Built form
• The redevelopment of the power station will create a
landmark iconic building, and should incorporate
responsive recycling treatment and exciting new additions.
The past industrial character should be reflected in the
development aesthetics.
• All development should promote surveillance of the
foreshore, to encourage active and passive use of the
area by residents and visitors.
• Buildings should be robust and adaptable to allow for
changes in use over time. New buildings should be
flexible to meet changes in market demands, allowing
residential activity initially with a change in use over time
when appropriate.
• Building footprints should be maximised at the street edge
and the area of open space optimised by encouraging
parking behind buildings. Rooftop and basement parking,
and key decked parking stations should be considered, all
of which should be sleeved behind building frontages or
appropriately screened.
• The residential character of Cockburn Road and
immediately adjacent sites should have a solid bulk and
massing – reflecting a contemporary version of the
Fremantle wool stores.
• The character of the residential sites in secondary streets
and laneways should also relate to the industrial memory
of the area, and should give particular attention to
industrial style roof forms (e.g. saw-tooth roofs) or parapet
frontages. The aesthetic should draw on Fremantle and
South Fremantle traditional building topologies, but should
avoid duplication of historical detailing.
Height
• Bulk and height should be limited on buildings
immediately adjacent to the power station, so that these
surrounding buildings become secondary forms. The
extensive use of glazing and lightweight material cladding
and articulated design is an effective way to ensure that
the power station is the dominant element.
• Development west of the freight rail line, and south of
McTaggart Cove, is permitted to be three to five storeys to
reflect the importance of the power station building and
ensure that surrounding development does not dominate
the power station or the adjacent foreshore.
• Development west of the freight rail to the northern side of
McTaggart Cove Road is permitted to be 3 to 4 storeys in
height.
• The power station precinct contains the project area's
principle activity node and major gateway intersection with
the east-west open space link and Cockburn Road. The
gateway sites in the precinct should have a height of eight
levels, plus potentially a loft level setback from the street
frontage. Landmark sites in the precinct should have a
height of nine to eleven levels, plus a loft level setback
from the street frontage.
• The predominant height on Cockburn Road should be five
levels, and within the activity node area the height should
increase to six levels, with potential for a seventh level in
the roof space, subject to a three metre setback being
provided.
• Residential development in secondary streets should be
three to four levels in height, with opportunities for roof
terraces and an additional loft level in the pitched roof
space.
• Gateway and landmark sites beyond eight storeys within
the precinct will be located beyond the height setback
area of SPP 2.6. Within the Power Station precinct, the
SPP 2.6 setback area generally contains land west of the
freight rail line and some land located between the freight
rail line and Cockburn Road in the southern extent of the
precinct.
• Development applications seeking landmark, gateway or
iconic building status wil not be supported until local
structure planning and development of built form
guidelines have determined the appropriate locations for
these higher built form elements.
Public realm
• The Power Station precinct should be a major public
destination venue as a significant mixed use activity node
which provides for passive recreational opportunities; a
beach lifestyle focus; a boardwalk character for
beachfront public open space; and a strong sense of the
site’s cultural significance and industrial heritage.
2.10.2 Hilltop precinct
The Hilltop precinct is located immediately north of the Power
Station precinct, and extends from Cockburn Coast Drive in the east
to Cockburn Road in the west. Hilltop has been separated in the
precinct planning from the land to the west of Cockburn Road, due
to its significant topography and the way that this landform should
be treated in future planning and development phases. It is intended
that development should be responsive to the topography in Hilltop,
and should aim to retain as much of the existing natural character of
the site as possible.
Hilltop is a predominantly residential precinct, with some mixed use
development along Cockburn Road. It also contains part of the
project area’s central activity node, focused on the central transit
stop, with some further mixed use development sleeving this node.
The precinct has the project area’s two east-west linear parks,
district structure plan
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