Katoomba Charrette Outcomes Report - Blue Mountains City Council

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Katoomba Charrette Report & Town Centre Strategy parking, and would thereby help to justify the cost of the required multi-deck parking for both. The southern end of the assemblage of sites, including the Old TAFE, the RTA Building, and Jane Young’s Civic Video and Retrovision premises, was identified during the Charrette investigations as one of two ideal sites for a supermarket in the Town Centre. The supermarket would face southward into Pioneer Place, quite close to the Jewels and Coles. Supermarket and Related Shops A 3500 sqm supermarket is integrated into this design, with its entrance at street level, facing Pioneer Place, as illustrated in the perspective sketches above. As the section shows, the perimeter of the rear of the supermarket slips below ground, which is where the plan widens out to extend below grade out to the face the street level shops above on Parke Street, and to the eastern edge of College Lane. Where the supermarket is above ground, at its southern end and corners, it is lined with specialty shops, so that no blank walls face public streets. Some of these shops also face into the supermarket space, for uses such as butchers, delicatessens and bakeries. Truck deliveries access off Pioneer Place at grade, through a relatively narrow but efficient slot (see plan). Cultural/Visitors Centre Distinct from Supermarket This design again features the same Cultural/Visitors Centre component at its north end, facing across Prior Lane to the Carrington. The ‘cultural end’ would be quite separated from the ‘supermarket end’. The sketch below illustrates the view from the south along Parke Street of the ‘supermarket end’, with the ‘cultural end’ up the hill and in the distance, marked only the Carrington chimney in this sketch. A cinema triplex and entertainment complex is integrated within the development, as shown in the plans and section below. Rooftop Residential Development Atop this large structure is a two- and three-storey up-market residential development, with treed courtyards and spectacular views of the Blue Mountains in the distance and the Town Centre nearby. The complex steps down the slope of the site to the south, giving each top floor a southward view over the next one down the hill (see Roof Plan and Site Section below). These dwellings could be permanent apartments, short-term accommodation, and/or serviced apartments. Dedicated secure car parking for the residential (at one car space per dwelling maximum, unless three bedrooms or more) could locate in the underground parking structure, generally directly beneath each dwelling, and accessed either by stairs and/or by lifts to the roof gardens, from which front doors of the dwellings would typically be reached. The street frontages of both Parke Street and College Lane would be lined with either homebased business premises, small offices, secondary retail, or actual residences, as shown in the sketch below of the Parke Street frontage. The north-south slope of the site gives the privacy advantage of enabling the residential floors at street level to have their front doors at grade, and then to have the public grade slope down past other rooms, whose windows would be elevated above the footpath, so that passers by could not see directly in to these enfronting rooms. This slight elevation is an ideal transition between public footpath and private interior, and is also ideal for passive surveillance to enhance public and personal safety in the enfronting streets. This is particularly important for College Lane, which at present does not feel safe, due to lack of passive surveillance. 92
Katoomba Charrette Report & Town Centre Strategy Car Parking The plans and sections below show how the parking works for car. The four levels of parking step down the slope, each level with its own access at grade. In this scheme, the parking capacity is maximised for the site by means of extending the underground parking out under both Froma Lane and College Lanes, which the Blue Mountains City Council could permit. Other than the access points, there is no car parking in this scheme which would be visible from the surrounding streets. Edgeley Persp From Southwest Showing Supermarket And Park Street Frontage Aerial Axonometric By Chip Kaufman of Multi-Use Complex with Supermarket at the right end. 93
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