sydney-city-centre-review-of-environmental-factors

Precinct
Subzone 3a (southern: Haymarket)
Impacts on
streetscape
S1: Sussex Street Low beneficial Negligible
Subzone 3b (southern: Central Station)
S6: Pitt Street Negligible Negligible
Subzone 3c (southern: Ultimo and Broadway)
S4: Ultimo Road Negligible Negligible
S5: Broadway Low beneficial Negligible
Subzone 3d (southern: Pitt Street and Goulburn Street)
S2: Goulburn Street Negligible Negligible
S3: Pitt Street Low adverse Negligible
Subzone 4a (college: Wentworth Avenue)
C1: Wentworth Avenue Negligible Negligible
Subzone 4b (college: College Street/Hyde Park)
C2: College Street Moderate-low
adverse
Zone 5: financial
Impacts on the landscape
character
Low adverse
F1: Macquarie Street Low adverse Negligible
F2: Macquarie Street Negligible Negligible
The landscape and streetscape impacts resulting from the operational changes
introduced under the proposal can be broadly summarised as follows:
A negligible impact on the landscape character of each zone due to the limited
change in the form and function of each road corridor and its relationship to the
overall characteristics of each zone
Certain locations that would experience a low adverse impact on the
streetscape character due to the change and altered influence traffic would
have within the road corridor
Certain locations that would experience a low beneficial impact on the
streetscape character due to the reinforcement of the road’s function by
reallocating priorities and the removing traffic conflicts.
The two exceptions would be at work site C2: College Street and F1: Macquarie
Street where in both locations traffic would become more influential in two sensitive
streetscapes and landscape zones.
Visual amenity (operational) impacts from tree pruning and removal
The proposal would require the removal and pruning of trees in seven locations.
Table 6-46 summarises the visual, amenity and aesthetic impact associated with this
component of the works. Amenity impacts have been considered in the relation to:
The inherent value of the trees
The nature of the impact (i.e. whether the tree is pruned or removed)
Sydney City Centre Capacity Improvement 353
Review of Environmental Factors