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

Work site Section Visual receiver
R2: Market Street \ D: Clarence Street to
York Street
S3: Pitt Street H: Hay Street to Rawson
Place
Low (beneficial)
S5: Broadway C: Wattle Street
intersection
Westpac
Fire station café
Liangzi Australia
Sydney Central
Service NSW
Notre Dame University
The visual impacts experienced during construction can be generally grouped as
follows:
Moderate and moderate-to-low adverse impacts would occur in locations where
the streets are generally narrower and contained, framed by more sensitive
buildings, including heritage-listed buildings, and the improvements would
increase the presence of traffic within the road corridor, alter the relationship of
the road and footpath to adjacent receivers, result in configuration and layout
changes or introduce road furniture into the receiving environment
Low adverse impacts would occur in locations where the streets are still narrow
and contained however the adjacent receivers are less sensitive to change
Low beneficial impacts would occur in locations where the relationship of the
road corridor and adjacent sensitive receivers would improve.
Light spill impacts during operation
The proposal includes relocation of a number of lighting poles (refer to Table 3-3 to
Table 3-7); however, there would be no change to the pole heights or the type of
lighting used (i.e. the luminescence).
Although the poles would be moved to new positions, and therefore potentially in
front of different buildings, there is no anticipated operational impact as the ambient
light along each road is unlikely to increase overall. Locally however there may be a
change in where the lighting pole would be reinstated. Whilst this would change the
location where any light spill would occur, it would be unlikely to impact on residents
who are generally located be above the height of the relocated lighting pole. It would
also have negligible impact on other receiver-types given the existing light pollution
within the city.
6.6.4 Safeguards and management measures
Table 6-48 lists the landscape character and visual impact safeguards and
management measures that would be implemented to account for the potential
impacts identified above in section 6.6.3.
Sydney City Centre Capacity Improvement 360
Review of Environmental Factors