Katoomba Charrette Outcomes Report - Blue Mountains City Council

Katoomba Charrette Report & Town Centre Strategy
with the following conditions:
Improvements should respect and respond to the Gearin’s historic architecture
and should create a frontage to serve as an entry statement that better supports
the Town.
Improvements may occupy the entire empty space between the present building
and the footpath along the highway, and be more than one storey, in order to
provide enough buildable space financially to justify the improvement to the Town
entry.
9.3.3 Proposed Charrette Designs
The proposed Charrette designs for these two sites are illustrated in the sketch below.
Sketch of proposed improvements to the north facade of the Gearin’s Hotel and SRA Depot Site
Gearin’s Improvements
Improvements to the north facade of the Gearin’s include two storeys of additional rooms with
insulated glass tall windows for acoustical protection from passing traffic and to receive the
north sun. The layout envisaged converting the existing rooms on the north facade into
ensuites, and adding new rooms to the north of each of them. Refer to the Goldsmiths Plan for
an indicative plan of the Gearin’s expansion of its north facade. The Gearin’s, BMCC and the
RTA may be well advised to discuss the long term highway configuration and determine
whether the Gearin’s could expand into the present highway reserve up to the present south
edge of the footpath.
SRA Depot
The proposed design features an ‘entry statement’ building of architectural quality, positioned
right up to the back of the footpath at the Katoomba Street intersection with the Highway. The
SRA, BMCC and the RTA may be well advised to discuss the long term highway configuration
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