Liverpool City Council has prepared a draft Strategic Plan for its City Centre. The plan sets a framework for managing growth over the next 25 years and cements Liverpool’s status as the regional centre of south west Sydney. It is the first step in Council’s City Centre Review Project. This directly responds to the New South Wales Government’s recognition of Liverpool as one of three key regional centres in the Sydney metropolitan area.
Liverpool’s population of 160,000 is expected to grow to 250,000 residents by 2020. The City Centre review highlights the need for an additional 3,000 homes in the inner city and more than 16,000 extra jobs by 2031.
Under the plan, the Liverpool city centre will continue to grow its regional centre status with a major medical/educational precinct, higher order retail opportunities, public space and cultural facilities. A key feature is a City Centre Structure Plan, which sets out the preferred retail and commercial cores, mixed use, residential and educational/medical precincts and proposed building height limits.
It focuses on building on Liverpool City’s existing assets, including Liverpool Hospital – the principal teaching hospital of the University of NSW located in the heart of the city centre. Adjacent to the hospital the South Western Sydney Institute of TAFE Liverpool offers a unique clustering of ‘knowledge hubs’ located in proximity to each other, with easy access to Liverpool railway station.
Following the consultation period, urban design guidelines will be prepared for the Liverpool city centre, as well as a Local Environmental Plan and a Development Control Plan.
The draft Liverpool City Centre Strategic Plan is available via Council’s website at www.liverpool.nsw.gov.au
