CockburnCoast - Western Australian Planning Commission

CockburnCoast
Land use
• Residential and mixed use focus.
• Ground-floor office and commercial opportunity on
Cockburn Road and part of Rockingham Road.
• Local retail activity node at transit stop.
Built form
• Roads and built form to respond to landform.
• Buildings should be adaptable to allow for changes in use
over time.
• 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 station should be considered, all
of which should be sleeved behind building frontages or
appropriately screened.
Height
• Buildings on Cockburn Road and Rockingham Road
should be a height of four levels, with a maximum of five
levels if a three metre terrace setback or loft level is
provided.
• The height of buildings on secondary streets throughout
the precinct should be three to four levels.
• 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.
• The landmark development is permitted to be up to 16
levels, with gateway sites permitted to be up to 8 levels.
Public realm
• Quality of streetscaping and interface of buildings with the
urban public realm will be important to ensure high
standards of amenity in the remainder of the project area
are carried through into Fremantle Village precinct.
• The Rockingham Road and Cockburn Coast Drive verges
and embankments should be well landscaped to present
a quality image for the project area.
• Landscaping, active street edges, use of street furniture
and other urban public realm treatments should be
encouraged to provide high-quality pedestrian
environments and urban outdoor spaces.
2.11 Socio-economic
elements
The urban renaissance of the Cockburn coast will provide for around
10 800 new residents. The structure plan is the first step in initiating
a framework to shape the social and economic characteristics of the
new community.
The following section explores the key socio-economic elements of
the district structure plan, and components which will need to be
further explored in the detailed stages of planning, as the
development progresses to build out and as the new community
establishes itself.
2.11.1 Social sustainability
Social sustainability and development of a cohesive, active
community is an integral component in achieving the vision for the
Cockburn coast. Sense of place, diversity, engagement, community
facilities and infrastructure and accessibility all play a part in
achieving sustainability from the community's perspective. The way
forward is to develop tangible strategies for achieving these
outcomes and supporting a diverse community through the next
phase of detailed planning.
2.11.2 Community facilities and recreation
The district structure plan has been prepared in consultation with a
reference group and following an extensive visioning dialogue. This
process has identified desirable types of facilities to be incorporated
within the Cockburn coast redevelopment, as follows:
• Strong landscape and physical linkages between the
Beeliar Regional Park reserve in the east and the coastal
foreshore reserve;
• Regeneration of the Power Station building which includes
public use elements, such as:
- Space for community markets
- Café's. restaurants, microbrewery
- Convention/theatre space
- Indigenous and European heritage
education/interpretive centre
• Community facilities at the South Beach (North Coogee)
coastal node; and
• Educational facilities.
The structure plan has responded to these desirable features
through:
• provision for community/commercial facilities at the
western extent of Rollinson Road;
• providing for a mix of uses within the revitalised Power
Station and surrounds, including a series of principles to
guide the further determination of land use and heritage
interpretation;
• establishment of linear public open space corridors linking
key natural areas; and
• provision of a primary school site, with strong links to the
surrounding neighbourhood and transit opportunities.
2.11.3 Sense of place
The depth of a person's experience of a place is directly related to
its distinctness, quality and the emotions it draws on.
Creativity lies at the heart of the Cockburn coast's urban
renaissance and will play an essential role in breathing new life into
forgotten places and buildings. The physical transformation of the
Cockburn coast alone will not make the area into a bustling quarter
with its own distinct sense of place. To achieve this outcome,
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