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3. FRAMEWORK RATIONALEThe strategic planning and development of future arts facilities for the City has attracted widedebate and varying opinions over a considerable period of time.Elected representatives have an active interest in the development of additional arts facilities.There are a number of resolutions of Council, over a period of years that demonstrate thisinterest. Council’s Arts Advisory Committee has also passed a number of recommendations toCouncil encouraging and supporting the development of facilities.There has been a long history of community lobbying for arts facilities. With the opening of theRiverside Theatres in 1988 this lobbying subsided for a period. However, over the past 8-10 yearsthe need to further strengthen and develop arts facilities, particularly for the visual arts has built.Exhibition of artwork has been undertaken in a number of venues over a long period. Thisincludes the foyer areas of the Riverside Theatres and various spaces in the Heritage Centre.The Arts has become an emerging role for Parramatta in the region. Proximity to Sydney hasresulted in opportunities such as the Sydney Festival and the Sydney Writers Festival beingavailable in Parramatta and closer to the broader Western Sydney community. In this aspect,Parramatta’s function is largely to act as a ‘bridge’ between east and west. The increasingdemand for visual art opportunities is being largely driven by local and sub regional demand.The city’s maturity and increasing popularity for development and growth are drawing increasingnumbers of people to work and live in the area. This, along with the resulting planning and urbandesign issues to accommodate this growth has led to a discussion regarding the geographicallocation of arts facilities that best support city development. The debate regarding thedevelopment of precincts, clusters or stand alone facilities has currency in this context.Discussions are continuing with the State Government for the inclusion of significant arts/culturalfacilities within the North Parramatta Precinct. Other medium to long term opportunities exist inthe reuse or adaptation of Council owned premises close to public transport, in the inclusion ofcultural facilities within major developments as a possible developer contribution, and theinclusion of a gallery in the development of Civic Place.In addition to Council’s planning there has been emerging demand across the arts sector, withthe preparation of a number of proposals by various organisations for the city. These have beendriven in part by the decrease in availability and affordability of space within the Sydney CBD andsurrounds.It is evident that multiple and major opportunities exist in the short, medium and long terminvestment in arts facilities for Parramatta. This project is an extension to the WellbeingStrategies that are currently being developed and is being undertaken at this stage in response tothe increasing demands from the community and councillors.The continuing growth and development of Western Sydney and Sydney as a whole will placeincreasing pressure on Parramatta to extend the range and scope of services for the communityat a local, regional and metropolitan context.Arts Facilities & Cultural Places Framework 6
4. FRAMEWORK OUTCOMESThis framework has set out to provide an overarching plan that will give a common direction forpossible arts facilities that support city development and address the cultural needs of thecommunity. The role and function of various facilities, along with a guide for priority forimplementation has formed part of the work.This framework will enable the development of implementation plans for possible facilities to becommenced and effective negotiations for additional arts facilities with partners to beundertaken with a higher level of certainty.This framework operates within the overall cultural and metropolitan context and fits into thewellbeing strategies currently being developed, but also importantly reference Council’soverarching arts policy document, the Arts & Cultural Plan (2000).The Arts & Cultural Plan identified a number of future directions for the development of the Artsin Parramatta. Major opportunities included the need to expand infrastructure, but also morefocused strategies that explore the need for unique product to be developed within Parramattapossibly resulting in hybrid cutting edge and unique art forms of the future, and the creation ofa diverse and robust arts and cultural life that has more texture than that in either the rest ofSydney or Western Sydney.This framework has provided an opportunity to reaffirm and also further test these hypotheses.4.1 PLANNING CONTEXTThe development of arts facilities in Parramatta has been identified in a number of planninginstruments and documents at commonwealth, state, regional and local levels. The followingkey reports/documents are relevant:1. Sydney Regional Environmental Plan No 28 - Parramatta (1999). – Action Plan2. The Arts & Cultural Plan (Adopted in December 2000);3. The Parramatta Social Plan (Adopted in June 2001);4. Community surveys focussing on Youth Needs (H. Valley Research 1997-1999);5. Arts Development in Western Sydney (Australia Council for the Arts, 1990);6. Western Sydney Arts Strategy (NSW Ministry for the Arts, 1999);7. Parramatta City Council’s Management Plan 2001/2002 to 2004/5;8. Arts Access Centre Feasibility Study (1999).9. Museums & Galleries Foundation Submission to the Meyer Report (2001)10. Meyer Report—Review of the Contemporary Visual Arts & Crafts in Australia (2002)11. Sydney Metropolitan Strategy Discussion Paper (2004)12. Authoring Contemporary Australia—Regional Cultural Strategy (WSROC, 2005)The following summary provides a local, state & regional overview of the planning context forthis framework, in particular the emphasis on the development of existing and future artsinfrastructure.Arts Facilities & Cultural Places Framework 7
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Page 8 and 9: NOVEMBER 1999A Strategy for the Art
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Page 18 and 19: 6.1 GOALSThe Framework’s key goal
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Page 22 and 23: KEY STRATEGIES (cont)6.4.4 BUILDING
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Page 37 and 38: 8.7 CITY CENTRE DESIGN & THE PUBLIC
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Page 41 and 42: 9.2 ‘GUNYAH’ - A NEW GENERATION
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