Katoomba Charrette Outcomes Report - Blue Mountains City Council

Katoomba Charrette Report & Town Centre Strategy
PART I - KATOOMBA’S REVITALISATION CHALLENGE
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Purpose and Contents of this Report
The main purpose of this document is to report the outcomes from the Katoomba Charrette and
subsequent public submissions to Council, and to propose related strategies and action plans for
Katoomba’s revitalisation.
This report explains what the Charrette was, why we did it and what happened during it. This report
explains Katoomba’s existing context, its issues and challenges, so that readers can understand what
we had to work with and the reasons behind the outcomes. This report explains the proposed
Charrette designs and the rationales behind them. General and specific strategies to expand
employment are also detailed. This report suggests briefly what may happen next, and how the
Charrette may be implemented. An implementation program is already under way, which this Report
is intended to inform.
1.2 The Intended Users of this Report
This report should be useful to anyone wanting to understand the Charrette in detail, or to implement
its proposed designs. That includes those who may be responsible for implementing it, such as the
Blue Mountains City Council and other members of a Charrette Implementation Task Force, as well as
persons who may be moving to Katoomba, buying or developing properties there, or considering
business ventures.
1.3 How to Use this Report
The Katoomba Charrette Outcomes and Town Centre Strategies are necessarily quite comprehensive
and complex, as is this Report. The detailed Table of Contents is the crucial ‘road map’ for finding
specific information.
Because the proposals and strategies are all so inter-dependent, users should take care to ensure that
they understand a given project in its context with neighbouring proposals and strategies. Please do
not expect to deal successfully with a specific project in isolation!
Key sites are organised geographically into sections relating to the Town Centres Northern End,
Central Area, and Southern End. This is because key sites in the Town Centre so affect each other,
especially adjoining sites. Each of the three sections dealing with the key sites begins with a plan
showing all its key sites. Also, an overall plan of the Town Centre, showing all the key sites, is
provided in Section 5; the sites are keynoted and cross-referenced to the sections where they are
explained in detail.
The Report provides numbered ‘Actions’ as a guide for future implementation.
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