Agenda of Council Meeting - 12 October 2017

Council Meeting

12 October 2017

Item No: C1017 Item 2

Subject: REVISED DRAFT SYDENHAM TO BANKSTOWN URBAN RENEWAL CORRIDOR STRATEGY

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Prepared By: Peter Failes - Urban Design Planner and Peter Wotton - Strategic Planning Projects Coordinator

Authorised By: Elizabeth Richardson - Group Manager Development Assessment and Regulatory Services

SUMMARY

This report concerns the revised draft Strategy for the Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor released in June 2017 by the State Government for community consultation.

Whilst a number of amendments have been made from the initial draft 2015 Strategy, which will have a positive local impact including the retention of high quality character areas, Council continues to have concerns with a number of other matters contained within the revised draft Strategy.

Council officers have carried out a detailed assessment of the revised draft strategy and have identified a number of issues and concerns. Officers have recommended that a number of amendments be made to the revised draft Strategy to address those concerns and issues.

Officers have prepared a draft submission for Council’s consideration and that submission is attached as ATTACHMENT 4. A Final Submission will be presented at the Ordinary Council Meeting on 24 October.

The report recommends that Council endorse the draft submission.

RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

1. The report be received and noted.

2. Council endorse the draft submission at ATTACHMENT 4, to be lodged with the Department of Planning and Environment.

3. The Final Submission be presented to the Ordinary Council Meeting on 24 October.

1. BACKGROUND

The Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor Strategy (the Strategy) is a 20 year (to 2036) State Government plan which established a strategic planning framework for urban renewal growth along the new Sydney Metro rail system. Within the Inner West local government area (LGA), the Strategy applies to the Sydenham Railway Precinct, Marrickville Railway Precinct and the Dulwich Hill Railway Precinct.

The Strategy will allow increased residential densities and building heights to reach the targets set for additional homes and jobs in these three precincts.

The first draft of the Strategy was released in October 2015. Following a period of community consultation and the public meeting in November 2015, the former Marrickville Council lodged a submission with the Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) in December 2015 (ATTACHMENT 1).

The revised draft Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor Strategy (revised draft Strategy) was released for public comments in June 2017. The exhibition period closed on 3 September 2017. However, the DPE granted the Inner West Council (IWC) additional time to provide its detailed submission that would be reported to the incoming elected Council.

In the interim, and following the public meeting held on 10 August 2017, Council’s Interim General Manager submitted a letter to the DPE outlining key concerns raised with the revised draft Strategy and provided a summary of matters raised by the community at the public meeting (ATTACHMENT 2).

2. OVERVIEW OF THE FIRST DRAFT STRATEGY 2015

Key pages from the first draft Strategy 2015 can be found in the Marrickville Council 2015 submission at ATTACHMENT 1. The full set of documents including background material is available on the DPE’s web site at: http://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/Plans-for-your-area/Priority-Growth-Areas-and-Precincts/Sydenham-to-Bankstown-Urban-Renewal-Corridor/Documents

The key issues raised by the former Marrickville Council were:

· The loss of too much of the character and fabric of the established, historic and intact inner city suburbs of Marrickville and Dulwich Hill;

· Protection of all listed heritage items and other high quality period buildings and streetscapes within the precincts must be ensured;

· Concerns for the sudden and divisive impact this significant change will have on established communities, with zoning changes led by the private sector;

· Need for the next level of design investigation – precinct wide master planning and a related statutory framework;

· If the Strategy acts as the only guide for privately led rezonings there will be poor and uncoordinated planning outcomes;

· Lack of focus on practical measures to ensure liveability, urban and environmental outcomes related to housing affordability, design excellence, high quality streetscapes/public domain, schools and childcare, precinct sustainability and environmental management matters such as water sensitive urban design, biodiversity management, Cooks River management and waste management; and

· Funding is needed to cover the significant investment in public open space, schools, streetscape, public domain improvements and related community infrastructure.

The former Marrickville Council’s points of agreement with the first draft Strategy were:

· The principle of increasing densities around high-capacity public transport;

· Recognition of the additional work required for the public domain for each local town centre;

· A continuous regional east-west walking/cycling link from Sydenham to Bankstown along the existing rail corridor;

· Increased residential density in the Meeks Road/Gerald Street area where it is outside of the most severely affected aircraft noise areas and where is can act as a buffer to the industrial areas;

· No change to the north-eastern parts of the Marrickville precinct given the smaller lot sizes and to ensure city views from properties to the south;

· Extension of redevelopment areas south-east from Marrickville Station along the southern side of the railway line as these areas have good access to the station and include larger regularly-shaped blocks;

· A maximum height of 5-6 storeys around Dulwich Grove light rail stop; and

· Redevelopment of areas adjacent to the future GreenWay; around Dulwich Hill Station and around the Loftus Street car park with their proximity, accessibility and established apartment context.

3. OVERVIEW OF THE REVISED DRAFT STRATEGY 2017

Key pages from the revised draft Strategy 2017 can be found at ATTACHMENT 3. The full set of documents including background material is available on the DPE’s web site at: http://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/Plans-for-your-area/Priority-Growth-Areas-and-Precincts/Sydenham-to-Bankstown-Urban-Renewal-Corridor/Documents

The comparison between the first draft Strategy and the revised draft Strategy reveals that only some of the former Marrickville Council and the communities’ concerns were taken on board and some increased or additional land use strategies are now proposed:

3.1 SYDENHAM STATION PRECINCT

FIRST DRAFT STRATEGY 2015	REVISED DRAFT STRATEGY 2017
Additional dwellings to 2036
87	500 (+413)
New jobs to 2036
1,101	711 (-390)
Land use and density
	73 Mary Street (Precinct 75) and Victoria Road Precinct included as being subject to determination of planning proposals
	60-62 Mary Street and 9-15 Unwins Bridge Road included to allow for more intensive employment uses and indoor recreation uses as a future business/enterprise area
	Marrickville Road (between Meeks Road and Sydney Street) – main street shop top housing height limit increased, allowing up to 6 storeys
	Gleeson Avenue and Unwins Bridge Road – main street shop top housing height limit increased, allowing up to 6 storeys
Employment
	Support the future Sydenham Station Creative Hub which will encourage a vibrant night time economy including more bars and restaurants
	The enterprise area amended to reflect Council’s plans for a creative hub. The northern boundary is now Sydney Street and Fitzroy Street and eastern boundary is Saywell Street
Transport, traffic and access
	A more direct pedestrian connection and public domain enhancement to be provided between Sydenham Railway Station and the Marrickville Metro shopping centre
	Pedestrian improvements to Burrows Avenue, Railway Parade and Gleeson Avenue, Marrickville Road and Sydenham Road, including changing Road from one-way to two-way system
	Extend bus route from Tempe to Airport and Wolli Creek
Open Space
	New urban plaza included in front of a new Metro Station entries and other public domain enhancements
	A new community space or urban plaza and other public domain improvements on the edge of Sydney Pit

The changes from the first draft Strategy and changes from Council’s current primary development controls set out in Marrickville Local Environmental Plan 2011 (such as permissible land use and building height) are shown in Figures 1 and 2.

Figure 1 - Changes from first draft Strategy – Sydenham Station Precinct

Figure 2 - Changes from Council’s current planning framework – Sydenham Station Precinct

3.2 MARRICKVILLE STATION PRECINCT

FIRST DRAFT STRATEGY 2015	REVISED DRAFT STRATEGY 2017
Additional dwellings to 2036
3,978	6,000 (+2,022)
New jobs to 2036
1,309	555 (-754)
Land use and density
	29-55 Francis Street and 1-25 and 34 Fletcher Street – height limit reduced to low rise housing, allowing up to 4 storeys (as area is within 500m of railway station)
	2-28 Arthur Street – reduced to medium rise housing, allowing up to 5 storeys
	Silver Street and Gladstone Street – removed from zoning uplift
	Central Avenue and 56-76 Calvert Street – reduced to medium rise housing, allowing up to 5 storeys
	1-29 O’Hara Street – increased to medium rise housing, allowing up to 5 storeys
	31-41 O’Hara Street – increased to high rise and/or mixed use, allowing up to 12 storeys (with additional height potentially achieved on larger site where community facilities and/or public open space provided)
	50-54 Calvert Street and 2-34 O’Hara Street – New area proposed for low rise housing, allowing up to 4 storeys (as area is within 500m of railway station)
	2-12 and 13-17 Warburton Street and 1-7 Greenbank Street – reduced to medium rise housing, allowing up to 5 storeys
	Area south of Greenbank Street – reduced to low rise housing, allowing up to 3 storeys
	2-24 Station Street (adjacent to Marrickville Station) – removed from uplift zoning for new urban plaza
	369-383 Illawarra Road – increased to high rise and/or mixed use, allowing up to 12 storeys
	1-3 Schwebel Street – increased to high rise and/or mixed use, allowing up to 12 storeys (with additional height potentially achieved on larger site where community facilities and/or public open space provided)
	22-26 Schwebel Street – increased to medium-high rise, allowing up to 8 storeys
	Area south of Schwebel Street – reduced to low rise housing, allowing up to 3 storeys
	3 Myrtle Street and 3-5 Carrington Road – increased to high rise and/or mixed use, allowing up to 12 storeys (with additional height potentially achieved on larger site where community facilities and/or public open space provided)
	The former Marrickville hospital site – increased to high rise and/or mixed use, allowing up to 12 storeys
Heritage
	Correctly showed the David Street Heritage Conservation Area as a single dwelling area
	A new Heritage Conservation Area is proposed comprising Silver Street and Gladstone Street
	The southern side of Greenbank Street and Church Street are identified as low rise housing to provide more gradual transition to the single dwelling areas to the south and west
	The area to the south of Schwebel Street including Grove Street, High Street, Ivanhoe Street and Ruby Street have been identified for low rise housing following Council’s submission that this area be retained because of its local character
Transport, traffic and access
	Potential new entry to railway station at Victoria Road
	Enhanced pedestrian amenity and safety with 40km/h high pedestrian activity area in Illawarra Road and enhanced crossing at intersection of Illawarra and Petersham Road as well as Illawarra Road and Warburton Street / Schwebel Street
Open Space
	2-24 Station Street and at the north eastern side of Riverdale Avenue – opportunity for two new urban plazas at the station entrances and improvements to the streetscape along Leofrene Avenue
	The opportunity for a public open space along the railway line adjoining 3 Myrtle Street and 3-5 Carrington Road and a centrally located park and north-south pedestrian connection with the redevelopment of the Carrington Road precinct
	The opportunity for pedestrian connection / along the edge of the canal to the west of and parallel to Carrington Road
	Improvements to McNeilly Park

Figure 3 - Changes from first draft Strategy – Marrickville Station Precinct

Figure 4 - Changes from Council's current planning framework – Marrickville Station Precinct

3.3 DULWICH HILL STATION PRECINCT

FIRST DRAFT STRATEGY 2015	REVISED DRAFT STRATEGY 2017
Additional dwellings to 2036
2,059	2,000 (-59)
New jobs to 2036
284	275 (-9)
Land use and density
	Durham Street, Macarthur Parade, Beach Road and Kintore Street – removed from zoning uplift
	North of Marrickville Road – removed from zoning uplift
	394-400 Marrickville Road, 161-199 Livingstone Road, 2-26 David Street and 44-48 Robert Street – removed from zoning uplift and from the Precinct entirely)
	1-7 Dulwich Street, 197-205 Denison Street and 90A to 104 Constitution Road - New area proposed for low rise housing, allowing up to 3 storeys (and new part of the Precinct)
	2-10 The Parade – reduced to low rise housing, allowing up to 3 storeys
	73-101 Ewart Street – removed from zoning uplift
	66-78 Ewart Street, 266-284 and 277-299 Wardell Road, 47-55 Riverside Crescent, 10-12 Dibble Avenue and 10 Pilgram Avenue – reduced to low rise housing, allowing up to 3 storeys
	53-71 Ewart Street 51A-57A Ewart Lane – Increased to medium high rise housing, allowing up to 8 storeys
Heritage
	Retain more streets for low-density housing, in particular the areas to the south of Ewart Street and north of Beach street due to street character
	Identify 73-101 Ewart Street (west of Ness Avenue) as a potential new Heritage Conservation Area
	Identify 66-70 Ewart Street (near intersection with Wardell Road) as a potential new Heritage Conservation Area
Transport, traffic and access
	New entry to Metro railway station; improved separation of pedestrian footway on Wardell Road bridge over railway and investigate signalised crossing of Wardell Road / Dudley Street
	New street or pedestrian connection through eastern edge of Hercules Street development
	The investigation of a crossing over the light rail at Blackwood Avenue between Dulwich Hill Public School and the area included in the Hercules Street Masterplan
	40km/h high pedestrian area on Wardell Road
	Extend bus route from Tempe to Airport and Wolli Creek
Open Space
	Potential new urban plaza at new Metro Station entry
	Improvements to the Jack Shanahan Reserve and a new entrance from Hercules Street via a cut through of the raised embankment
	Implement part of Iron Cove to Cooks River GreenWay and new open space in the light rail corridor as and associated with Hercules Street development
	Use of school grounds for after-hours community uses
Environment
	In order to enhance the native habitats for long-nosed bandicoots, new open space area proposed along the rear of the properties on Hercules Street adjoining the light rail line should be planted with appropriate trees and vegetation that would create new habitat for bandicoots

Figure 5 - Changes from first draft Strategy - Dulwich Hill Station Precinct

Figure 6 - Changes from Council's current planning framework - Dulwich Hill Station Precinct

4. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Council has taken a proactive approach to assist the Inner West Council community understand the contents and implications of the revised draft Strategy and promoted the community making submissions to the DPE on the exhibition.

In this regard Council has:

· established Your Say Inner West project page, which was viewed by more than 1,000 people at the following link: http://www.yoursayinnerwest.com.au/sydenham-to-bankstown-urban-renewal-corridor;

· distributed a brochure to 16,500 nearby residences;

· distributed posters at key locations around the LGA;

· promoted the exhibition and public meeting in social and traditional media, and on Council’s website and e-news - media release at the following link: https://www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/news-hot-topics/media/media-releases/sydenham-to-bankstown-urban-renewal-corridor-back-on-the-agenda);

· held a public meeting on 10 August 2017 at Marrickville Town Hall which was attended by 350 people;

· recorded the meeting and uploaded the video at Your Say Inner West.

From the public meeting and submissions received from key groups including The Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (SSROC), Marrickville Golf and Community Club and Golf Course, Save Dully and Save Marrickville South the following concerns were raised:

· The need for effective collaboration and high level of engagement between the Inner West Council and the City of Canterbury Bankstown Council.

· There is overdevelopment proposed in the strategy. These plans have not been written for us, they have been written for developers.

· Marrickville and Dulwich Hill have been asked to take too much density.

· The revised draft Strategy makes no reference to affordable housing and sets no targets throughout the corridor. Similarly, the Strategy makes no mention or provision of affordable rental housing for key workers.

· The revised draft Strategy does not have a detailed and comprehensive infrastructure and delivery plan that is integrated to the land use planning for the corridor.

· The infrastructure should be planned before deciding the height of buildings.

· There is little evidence that the Sydenham-Bankstown Corridor and the related transport network and infrastructure are informed by traffic study or analysis. It is important to undertake the traffic analysis.

· Rather than fixing an existing rail line, we should be prioritising parts of Sydney that do not have these services. There are also concerns regarding the privatisation of the train line. Why are we ripping up and replacing an existing and good service?

· Additional waste management infrastructure will be inevitably required to meet the challenge of additional dwellings and people.

· It is not clear in the draft strategy how funds for the identified or other needed infrastructure will be generated and how the infrastructure will be delivered. Section 94 is inadequate as a source of funds for local infrastructure.

· The NSW Government needs to provide clarity on Value Capture and Voluntary Planning Agreements (VPA).

· Marrickville Golf Course is the only golf course in the Inner West Council local government area. How does Council propose to support older citizens sporting activities, if the only golf course within the municipality is reduced in size, or closed entirely?

· We have a deficit of open space. The existing open space areas are already at full capacity. There will be insufficient open space to support the additional development proposed and the height of the proposed buildings will overshadow these open space areas.

· Linear and pocket parks are not family friendly. We need parks where children can play.

· There are no plans for new schools, community centres or public halls. The only public school in Marrickville is already at full capacity.

· The revised draft Strategy does not place the desired emphasis on liveability.

· Concerns are raised regarding where the transition points are.

· The proposed rezoning of new areas of Dulwich Hill and other suburbs should be delayed so the State Government does not place unnecessary additional pressure on the Bankstown line as it progressively shuts down to build the Metro.

· The revised plan for west Carrington Road in its current form does not transition appropriately from single dwellings to increased zoning heights. It would have a major impact on the houses nearby through overshadowing, reduced privacy, physical domination of existing housing and changes to appearance of the streetscape.

· The LGA is rich in heritage, industrial and creative precincts, streetscapes and Aboriginal history. We need to keep Marrickville’s heritage and streetscapes. It is good that the revised draft Strategy protects heritage items, but there is nothing about the protection of streetscapes. The plans disregard the quality of these historic streets and the character of the area will change because of this development. The character is what makes our suburbs significant.

· Retain the heritage streetscape elements, as well as heritage buildings and significant streetscapes, in the southern part of the Marrickville Precinct and retain the heritage industrial buildings along Carrington Road. No areas should be designated for increased density, until a formal independent heritage assessment has been conducted of these areas.

· The revised draft Strategy endorses shop top housing, however this does not work. There are many examples of vacant shop top housing in the area.

· New households will require parking and there must be a parking management plan. New residents will require cars and parking as public transport will not meet all transport needs.

· Protect and foster Carrington Road as a vital enterprise hub for Sydney.

· A number of individual items that reflect Dulwich Hill’s diverse and interesting history and are worthy of heritage protection now face demolition under these plans.

· The final precinct plan should support the Uniting Church in Constitution Road, the former maternity hospital at The Parade and the Greek Church in Hercules Street as potential heritage items and should indicate that further heritage items will be investigated in the rezoning process.

· The revised draft Strategy designates the triangular block bordered by Constitution Road, Denison Road and New Canterbury Road for eight-storey development. Concerns about this intense development include: the lack of strategic planning merit as only part of this block is within the 800m radius from Dulwich Hill station, the block’s heritage character, there is no guarantee in the precinct plan that the affordable housing lost under this process will be replaced by new affordable rental housing, two bus stops along New Canterbury Road directly adjacent to the block are proposed to be removed and the impacts on existing developments.

· Similarly there are concerns with the block bounded by Hercules Street, Consett Street and Terrace Road, which will be the primary development area for Dulwich Hill. Concerns include heritage impacts, height limits and open space appearing as private use for the unit dwellings.

· Hercules Street industrial site - the most intense development on the site should be on the New Canterbury Road frontage (no more than eight storeys) and for development on the Hercules Street frontage to be limited to four storeys.

· Undertake a contaminated land assessment of the industrial area of the proposed Carrington Precinct and west Carrington Road and undertake flood management planning prior to the development of a final proposal.

· Our history, amenity, sustainability are undermined by these plans.

5. DISCUSSION

Council acknowledges the challenge of providing the required housing and jobs to meet Sydney’s forecast growth and the strategic merit in focusing renewal around transport infrastructure and within urban centres. It is also noted that a number of amendments have been made from the initial draft Strategy which will have a positive local impact including the retention of high quality character areas.

Notwithstanding, Council continues to have issues and concerns with the revised draft Strategy. Those issues and concerns are detailed in the attached submission.

The key issues and concerns with the revised draft Strategy are as follows:

· Lack of transparency about the forecast dwelling and employment numbers in the revised draft Strategy. With the removal of some areas and reduced heights from the original draft Strategy, it is difficult to understand how a similar or significantly greater number of dwellings are now forecast in the revised draft strategy, especially in the Marrickville Station Precinct, which has over 2,000 more dwellings in the revised draft Strategy.

· Some areas being included for zoning uplift, especially in the Marrickville Station Precinct, resulting in the loss of character and fabric. Some of the areas requested to be removed by Council have instead been reduced to low rise housing. The attached submission identifies areas where height continues to be a concern and areas recommended to be removed from any zoning uplift.

· The removal or impact on key Marrickville employment and businesses lands which have been identified to be in high demand through independent analyses. This is of particular relevance within the Sydenham Station Precinct.

· Not providing a comprehensive whole-of-government plan for the required additional infrastructure and services. The anticipated increase in population will undoubtedly result in increased need for affordable rental housing, child care, schools, health care facilities, open space, recreation facilities, road upgrades, new or improved pedestrian and cycling connections and community facilities. No mechanism has been devised that will efficiently and transparently fund the delivery and/or upgrade of local or regional level infrastructure items. This is a significant shortfall of the revised strategy and must be addressed prior to the final strategy being released. Failing to address this issue will delay the delivery of housing and jobs across the Corridor.

· The proposed Greenway South West is strongly supported. However, the draft Strategy has, not adequately addressed the provision of local open space, only specifying that new parks would be left to Council to provide and that there is the potential for part of the Marrickville Golf Course to be repurposed for open space. Land for open space should be identified upfront and funding mechanisms identified. Section 94 will not be sufficient to provide the new open space areas required for the incoming community identified in the Strategy.

· Despite Council’s previous request for affordable housing targets or provision of an inclusionary mechanism, the revised draft Strategy still has not provided any policy or regulatory options to address the issue of affordable rental housing. This critical issue must be addressed by the final strategy.

· Implementing the Strategy will require funding to be made available from the State. Prior to any planning proposals being supported by Council detailed studies such as traffic, urban design and infrastructure planning must be prepared and finalised to ensure incoming growth and associated cumulative impacts can be appropriately managed by Council. Commitment to such funding has yet to be made by the State.

· The revised draft Strategy has not adequately considered urban design criteria such as orientation, topography, lot depths and configuration, width of streets, views relationships with open space and development parcels. Council’s previous submission considered that detailed precinct wide master planning was integral to progress the Strategy, ensuring optimal planning outcomes, however this has not been undertaken. Council is concerned that some blocks and groups of blocks designated for medium-high and high rise housing will cause significant overshadowing, visual bulk, streetscape and view impacts on existing residences.

A summary of the issues and concerns raised by Council officers, as detailed in the attached submission, are as follows:

(NB The number reference in the heading to each issue is the reference number used in the draft submission)

2. Strategic Context

The revised draft Strategy has a number of inconsistencies with relevant strategic planning documents including A Plan for Growing Sydney, the Draft Central District Plan and certain Section 117 Directions.

The Strategy should be amended to ensure consistency with those documents.

3. Infrastructure

The Strategy does not provide a comprehensive whole-of-government plan for the required additional infrastructure and services, including mechanism(s) that will efficiently and transparently fund the delivery and/or upgrade of those local or regional level infrastructure items.

The Strategy must establish a regional approach for the funding and implementation of the required infrastructure and a State Government commitment to the funding of key infrastructure.

The Strategy needs to address the infrastructure and funding issues raised in Section 3 of Council’s submission including issues relating to:

· Active transport;

· Open space, recreational facilities and public domain infrastructure;

· Street, traffic, parking and stormwater infrastructure; and

· Social infrastructure

All the necessary additional infrastructure and services need to be itemised and incorporated, and appropriately detailed, into the respective Land Use Plan, Infrastructure Plan and Infrastructure Schedule for each precinct. Such documentation should include details of the infrastructure type, hierarchy of facilities (local, district or regional), priority works, indicative timeframe for delivery and funding mechanisms as well as an estimated cost of works (like the infrastructure schedule contained in The Parramatta Road Corridor Urban Transformation Strategy).

4. Employment Land and Economic Development

The Strategy’s proposed rezoning of industrial land would have a significant negative impact on employment, availability of industrial floor space, supply chains, markets and synergies between businesses and Sydney’s creative/cultural institutions.

The downside for the local economy would be the loss of a substantial amount of relatively affordable land, the greater percentage of which is currently occupied by creative industries. Those businesses will be lost when the properties they currently occupy are either demolished or rezoned for medium to high density residential or mixed use development.

The purported opportunity sites referred to in the AEC Employment Analysis have exceptional economic value as industrial lands. The Strategy should be amended to retain those sites for the reasons detailed in Section 4 of Council’s submission.

5. Transport

The Strategy requires a more integrated transport approach as detailed in Section 5 of Council’s submission.

In order to create a more sustainable future, it is essential that the increased residential densities (and employment opportunities) should not be solely designed to make the metro more viable, they should offer genuine city shaping opportunities and start to guide a more sustainable city through more sustainable neighbourhoods.

For the reasons detailed in Council’s submission the Strategy should be based on an integrated approach to transport. The Strategy should be amended accordingly.

The Strategy should also be amended to address the specific transport comments for the respective precincts detailed in Section 5 of Council’s submission.

6. Heritage

A comprehensive heritage study of the areas within the respective precincts should be undertaken to determine whether there are any sites or areas of environmental heritage significance to the area not currently identified as heritage items, heritage conservation areas or draft heritage items or heritage conservation areas. That study should be carried out before any changes are contemplated to existing land use zonings and/or density and scale controls to ensure that any new planning controls respect the existing built environment and any identified heritage significance.

The Strategy should be amended to incorporate the outcomes of that study and to address the other heritage issues raised in Section 6 of Council’s submission.

7. Affordable Housing

The Strategy does not provide an affordable rental housing target or mechanisms to address the issue of the provision of affordable rental housing.

It is essential that the Strategy sets an appropriate affordable rental housing target and that the State Government make amendments to State Environmental Planning Policy No 70 – Affordable Housing (Revised Scheme) to identify that there is a need for affordable housing in the Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor and that the State Government make relevant amendments to the environmental planning instruments applying to all local government areas in the Corridor to permit the levying of affordable housing contributions for residential development in the Corridor, to enable the creation of Affordable Rental Housing in perpetuity under the management of a Registered Community Housing Provider.

8. Environment

The Strategy should be amended to include a comprehensive sustainability framework with objectives, strategies and targets and measures.

9. Strategic Implementation and Staging

Implementing the Strategy will require funding to be made available from the State. Prior to any planning proposals being supported by Council detailed studies such as traffic, urban design and infrastructure planning must be prepared and finalised to ensure incoming growth and associated cumulative impacts can be appropriately managed by Council. Commitment to such funding has yet to be made by the State.

10. Urban Design

The revised draft Strategy has not adequately considered urban design criteria such as orientation, topography, lot depths and configuration, width of streets, views, relationships with open space and development parcels. For example, as detailed in Section 10 of Council’s submission, some of the land designated for medium-high rise and high rise housing in the Strategy do not support the height/density proposed in terms of solar access, visual bulk and streetscape considerations, based on the principles and guidelines applying to such development under SEPP 65 and the Apartment Design Guide (ADG).

The Strategy needs to be amended, as detailed in Section 10 of Council’s submission, to ensure compliance with those principles and guidelines.

11. Precinct Specific Issues

The draft submission recommends a number of changes be made to the Land Use Plan, Infrastructure Plan and Schedule and other changes for each of the respective Precincts. Those amendments are detailed in Section 11 of Council’s submission.

The recommended changes for each precinct are shown in the following diagrams:

11.1 Sydenham Station Precinct

Figure 7 – Council Marked Up Plan for the Sydenham Station Precinct

11.2 Marrickville Station Precinct

Figure 8 – Council Marked Up Plan for the Marrickville Station Precinct

11.3 Dulwich Hill Station Precinct

Figure 9 – Council Marked Up Plan for the Dulwich Hill Station Precinct

6. FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

The Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor Strategy is a NSW Government project. There are no financial implications for Council at this stage.

7. OTHER STAFF COMMENTS

The revised draft Strategy for the Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor was referred to the relevant sections of Council for their consideration. Their referral responses and the issues they raised in relation to the revised draft Strategy have been incorporated into the draft submission.

8. PUBLIC CONSULTATION

The DPE is responsible for the public exhibition of the revised draft Strategy for the Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor Strategy. The revised draft Strategy was released for public comments in June 2017. The exhibition period closed on 3 September 2017.

However as detailed previously, the DPE has granted the Inner West Council (IWC) additional time to provide its detailed submission to enable the matter to be reported to the newly elected Council.

In the interim, and following the public meeting held on 10 August 2017, Council’s Interim General Manager submitted a letter to the DPE outlining key concerns with the revised draft Strategy and provided a summary of matters raised by the community at the public meeting.

9. CONCLUSION

Whilst a number of amendments have been made from the initial draft Strategy, which will have a positive local impact including the retention of high quality character areas, Council continues to have concerns with a number of other matters contained within the revised draft Strategy.

Officers have prepared a draft submission for Council’s consideration and that submission is attached as ATTACHMENT 4.

ATTACHMENTS

1.⇩	Marrickville Council Submission (Dec 2015) on initial draft 2015 Strategy
2.⇩	Initial Council submission (6 Sept 2017) on revised draft 2017 Strategy
3.⇩	Selected pages from revised draft 2017 Strategy
4.⇩	Draft Council submission on revised draft 2017 Strategy

Council Meeting

12 October 2017

Item No: C1017 Item 4

Subject: MERGER IMPLEMENTATION

File Ref: 17/4718

Prepared By: Nellette Kettle - Group Manager Integration, Customer Service and Business Excellence

Authorised By: Rik Hart - Interim General Manager

SUMMARY

This report provides the elected Council with an overview on the progress to date with the merger implementation, including the governance framework, achievements, key risks/challenges and upcoming priorities.

Overall, significant progress has been made in the last year as outlined in the report and importantly community satisfaction with Inner West Council has remained high.

Notwithstanding the significant progress, it is important to be mindful that the task of creating a new organisation from three merged entities is complex, taking several years to complete.

RECOMMENDATION

THAT the report be received and noted and that Council is provided with a further update on progress with the merger implementation in six months.

BACKGROUND

Inner West Council was proclaimed on 12 May 2016.

Pre-merger planning

The three former councils were collaborating for several months in the lead up to Proclamation, in the knowledge that a merger was highly probable. A Transition Implementation Group comprising senior representation from each of the former councils was formally established to prepare a Change Management and Transition Plan to support the councils in preparing for change.

The merger occurred several weeks earlier than anticipated. At the time of the Proclamation:

· Due diligence activities were approximately 80% completed

· Comparable service profiles had been developed for all functional areas

· Nine (9) cross-council Project Action Teams were operational and at various stages of planning in the following key areas:

o Governance

o Legal

o Systems

o Workforce management

o Communications

o Finance

o Service delivery (front line)

o Procurement

o Culture/change

Post proclamation - transition

Since the merger, work to create the new Council has been guided by the Integration and Innovation Plan (Attachment 1) which was developed in June 2016 in accordance with Department of Premier & Cabinet guidance for merged councils. This plan identified over 80 actions for the transition phase, covering the period until the return of the elected council.

The Plan was structured around the Australian Business Excellence Framework categories and included actions supporting seven key strategic areas:

· Service integration and review

· Local democracy

· Integrated planning

· Equipping and supporting Council staff to be resilient through change

· Organisational re-design

· Systems integration and transformation

· Organisational development

Throughout the Administration period, monthly reports on progress with the merger implementation were provided to the Implementation Advisory Group (IAG). The IAG was established to oversee the merger implementation and comprised the Mayors and Deputy Mayors of the former councils. The IAG reports are available on Council’s website.

Key achievements

Bringing together the merged Council involves hundreds of actions, some are large multi-year projects and others are smaller discrete tasks. Following is a snapshot of some of the achievements to date:

Service integration and improvement

· Integrated customer service department, with a single consolidated contact centre (located in Petersham) and the majority of transactions enabled at all service centres across the LGA

· New Development Advisory and Assessment Policy aimed at streamlining the assessment process and reducing the time taken for approvals

· Integrated library services, community services, arts and culture and event programming and delivery

· Improved capital works delivery, with the value of works delivered increasing by 25% in the first year and expected to remain at similar levels

· Swimming passes can be used interchangeably across Council operated pools (excludes those in the Marrickville service area which are privately operated)

· Outdoor dining fees have been harmonised via a moratorium to ensure a level playing field for businesses

· Group Managers have commenced undertaking reviews, examining the services currently being provided and the inherited key points of difference in service delivery/standards that will need to be addressed into the future (e.g. waste services, resident parking scheme differences)

Supporting local democracy

· Local Representation Advisory Committee and Implementation Advisory Group comprising former Councillors convened during the Administration period to provide continued community representation

· New community engagement framework implemented

· Eight Strategic Reference Groups established and meeting bi-monthly (Environment, Social Inclusion, Transport, Economic Development, Housing and Affordability, Young Leaders, Planning and Heritage, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)

· Live online broadcasting of Council meetings providing increased transparency

· Public meetings on key issues, such as WestConnex and Sydenham to Bankstown urban renewal

Integrated planning

· Interim Statement of Vision and Priorities developed with community input

· Fully integrated Operational Plan and Budget for 2017/18

· Community Strategic Plan under development

Organisational development and equipping and supporting staff through change

· Organisational values developed and launched

· Regular HR and Integration staff roadshows

· Regular General Manager face to face staff talks

· Periodic resilience training for staff

· Training and support in applying for jobs, interview skills and resume writing

· High performance leadership program being rolled out across the organisation, with the Executive, Group Managers, Managers and now Team Leaders completing the six month program, comprising a variety of self-leadership modules

· Quarterly Leadership Team strategic planning workshops

Organisational re-design

· Organisational structures completed for 13 of the 18 Service Units

· To date, 161 staff have been moved into the permanent structure, with many more roles under active recruitment

· Co-location of all indoor staff (approximately 600 people) completed

Systems integration and transformation

· Dark fibre connection established between Service Centres

· Network and active directory integration completed

· Contract executed with TechnologyOne to deliver integrated enterprise system, One Council. First release, finance and procurement, implemented in July 2017. Planning and development work for Release 2 currently underway

· Skype for business implemented across primary sites

· Customer contact centre technology standardised and upgraded and Q-flow ticketing introduced at Customer Service Centres

· Organisational roll out of business process mapping software (Promapp) underway

Key upcoming priorities

Many integration projects are still in flight across the organisation. Significant projects that are underway and yet to be completed include:

· The TechnologyOne, One Council implementation. This is the single largest integration project and is a new enterprise wide system, touching all areas of the Council. The two year implementation program is on track to be completed in December 2018 and will see most Council functions operating out of a single integrated system, including core functions such as customer request management, rates, development applications, financial reporting and management of community assets. Having one integrated system reduces costs and ensures proper and full integration across functions, as well as expanded opportunities for online services, that would be difficult and costly otherwise. Another important benefit of the One Council system once fully implemented, will be access to real time information live on Council’s website, enabling residents to track the progress of their service requests live, increasing accountability and transparency. One Council is being implemented in five release stages. The first release, supporting integrated financial management and procurement across the Council was completed in July 2017. The second release, supporting HR (organisation management) and payroll will be implemented in March 2018, followed by release three, enterprise asset management in May 2018.

· Improving the quality and useability of financial data. Whilst at the organisational level Council now has a fully integrated budget and financial management system, the next step in maturity is to fully align all aspects of the budget accurately into the new organisational Service Unit structure so that the full cost of individual services to the community can be accurately established. This refinement process will be iterative and will also enable accurate dashboard reporting via the website in the near future.

· Finalisation of organisation structures. The process of determining new permanent organisation structures and migrating staff to the new structure has been a lengthy one involving extensive staff consultation at all stages of the process. Council has been fortunate to have the support of a very effective Joint Staff Consultative Committee that has worked incredibly hard and in cooperative partnership with management to achieve quality organisational outcomes with the least amount of disruption and anguish for our staff, who have been, and are still, undergoing an enormous amount of change. Work on permanent organisational structures commenced in September 2016 and is still in train. To date, full structures have been finalised for 13 of the 18 Service Units, and populated as follows:

o Level 1 – Interim General Manager (completed September 2016)

o Level 2 – Deputy General Manager’s (completed November 2016)

o Level 3 – Group Managers (completed March 2017)

o Level 4 – Managers (85% completed)

o Level 5 – Team Leaders/Coordinators/Supervisors (25% completed)

o Level 6/7 – Operational staff (15% completed)

The organisational structures are expected to be completed by the end of 2017.

· Co-location of depot staff. Staff consultation has been completed and the commencement of co-location of outdoor teams into their Service Unit groupings will commence October/November 2017. This will involve a change in the base work location of approximately 80 outdoor staff, as well as related plant and equipment (60 items) across the current four depot sites (St Peters, Summer Hill, Leichhardt and Balmain). This is the final stage in the staff re-location program and enables the integration of the outdoor teams to commence, including having outdoor teams in the same base locations as their team leaders and supervisors and pooling plant and equipment.

· Service review and harmonisation. Formal service reviews were not undertaken during the Administration period on that basis that the elected Council should decide any changes to services and service levels. The pace of service integration and harmonisation work will accelerate over the next year as teams define new operational processes and policies following co-location. Furthermore, there are key differences in service levels in some areas that will need to be worked through over time in consultation with the elected Council, such as waste services, resident parking scheme requirements and verge mowing.

· Development of the new Community Strategic Plan. This work is well underway following extensive community engagement and must be completed by 30 June 2018. A draft CSP will be presented to Council at an upcoming meeting.

· Integrated Local Environmental Plan. This is a three to four year project, with detailed project planning to commence in the next few months. In the interim, Council will continue to operate under the three existing plans.

· New Inner West industrial agreement and salary structure. Council inherited a disparate mix of EBAs, employment conditions and salary structures with the merger. This situation causes concern for staff because of the inequities, as well as challenges for managers, who are managing teams of staff with very different working conditions. This is a complex and industrially sensitive project that must be planned and executed well in order to deliver sustainable and effective long term outcomes for both the organisation and staff. It will require a collaborative effort between management and the Joint Consultative Committee and staff to deliver sustainable outcomes. This project will commence in 2018, once the process of migrating staff to the new organisation structures has been completed and is expected to take up to two years.

· Realising community benefits of the merger – an important area of focus is on continuing to deliver the community benefits that can be derived from our increased scale and capacity as a larger and more influential Council. This is particularly important in relation to major State policy and projects, such as WestConnex, Sydenham to Bankstown corridor, Parramatta Road revitalisation, Bays precinct etc.

Organisational governance – Project Management Office (PMO)

The merger implementation has been coordinated and overseen by a purposefully established Integration Team.

The Integration Team comprises a small project management office (PMO) of six staff (with project management, change management and business analysis capabilities) to support a decentralised integration model that drives full accountability to Group Managers for integration and business as usual operations in their area of responsibility.

The PMO has developed a framework to manage the vast amount of integration activity that is occurring across the organisation to:

· enable an overarching view of the transformation of Inner West Council;

· identify, scope and deliver integration projects;

· align scope and organisational capacity;

· identify and manage interdependencies between projects;

· manage risk; and

· monitor and report progress.

Throughout 2017, the Integration and Transformation Program has gained momentum, with 190 projects in scope spread over a 5 year delivery period across three streams:

· Stream 1: TechnologyOne Implementation – the single largest integration project comprising a suite of corporate applications to integrate and streamline operations

· Stream 2: Corporate Priority Projects – critical projects affecting all areas of Council (e.g. co-location, integrated financials, organisational restructure)

· Stream 3: Service Unit Integration Projects – critical projects that are focussed on integrating and improving the operations of each individual Service Unit

A total of 33 projects of ranging complexity have been successfully delivered to-date under the program, with 85 projects currently in progress.

Risk management

Risk identification and mitigation has been at the forefront of planning since the pre-merger phase, and continues to be a key focus area for the Integration PMO and the enterprise risk team.

The Integration and Innovation Plan identified seven risks to the implementation process, as well as strategies to mitigate them where possible. The identified risks were:

· Community is unaccepting of the new Council

· Loss of local community representation and identity in a larger Council

· Lack of continuity in service delivery

· Failure to resource and deliver business integration with business as usual activities

· Savings from the merger are not realised and costs are recognised

· Opportunities for improvement and innovation are not realised

· Loss of key staff during the implementation period

Through extensive ongoing efforts from staff across the organisation we have been able to minimise these risks to extent that they have had little overall impact on the success of the merger. Indeed, it is both pleasing to see and testament to the work of Council staff that community surveying has indicated that community satisfaction has risen in the first year and remains very high at with 90% of respondents at least somewhat satisfied with Council’s overall performance.

Challenges

Implementing a merger of three organisations without dropping the ball on business as usual service delivery is incredibly challenging, especially as it is widely known that productivity and morale decline during times of high organisational change. Council staff have been experiencing, and will continue to experience for some time yet, a complex high change environment. What makes this change more complicated and unique is that it will be constant over a 2-3 year period and all the core components that bring together an organisation have or will be changing - such as leadership, strategic direction, the organisational delivery model (Service Units), organisational structure, systems in use, business processes, people’s roles, work locations, pay and conditions.

The success that has been achieved to date has only been possible for the contribution of every staff member and is testament to the calibre of staff at Inner West Council, their teamwork, professionalism, capabilities and commitment to the organisation and the Inner West community.

Some of the key challenges include:

· Change fatigue – our staff have been through a lot of change since the merger, including two Interim General Managers in a short space of time with very different organisational approaches, obtaining a role in the new organisation, moving work locations, settling into new teams, and beginning to learn new systems and ways of operating, all whilst striving to deliver services as usual to the community. There is still a lot of change to come, especially in the technology space and along with that, business processes. Some of our teams in particular, such as Human Resources and ICT are at the forefront of many change projects and are under unusual levels of pressure. Accordingly, the pace at which change can occur needs to be delicately balanced across a range of factors including both organisational capacity to deliver and to absorb the change that is underway.

· Prescribed processes – some changes need to be done quickly in order to avoid long periods of uncertainty and anticipation for staff. Sometimes the processes that Council must follow by legislation in the post-merger environment, slow down the pace of change and have unintended consequences. For example, the time taken to complete the prescribed processes for recruitment, which have desirable intentions to ensure proper process and fairness, cause delays and prolonged uncertainty for staff, as it takes up to 12 weeks before they can be placed in a role. These processes are both important and necessary, but are why it has taken over 12 months to fill the organisation structure.

· Integrated communication and ICT systems – it cannot be over emphasised how critical ICT infrastructure is to the successful operation of the merged Council and to delivering operational efficiency and service improvements. The new TechnologyOne system will deliver many benefits over time, including an integrated business applications platform, real time customer information and enhanced e-business capability, however it takes several years to implement and realise the benefits of large scale ICT transformations. The challenge in the short term is operating out of the many disparate legacy systems that still need to be supported and used in the interim. Obtaining accurate, consistent and timely management information is challenging at present and requires significant manual data manipulation from multiple systems.

· Differing employment conditions – now that teams are co-located and integrating their operations, the impact of the different employment conditions is magnified, when people are sitting side by side, sometimes in exactly the same role, with different employment conditions, such as working hours, shift patterns and break times). Rostering and assembling work crews is very challenging in these circumstances. The impact of these differences needs to be carefully managed in the intervening period until the new Inner West industrial framework is finalised. The challenges that this environment creates for the Human Resources Department at an incredibly demanding time in the organisation’s development are also significant.

· Balancing transforming and delivering business as usual – all organisations face the pressures of balancing the successful delivery of business as usual whilst also working to improve the organisation and services at the same time. This challenge is magnified in the post-merger environment simply due to the magnitude of change that is necessary over a relatively short period of time and the reach of those changes across the organisation.

Stronger Councils measures

The Office of Local Government is measuring newly merged councils against a number of success indicators. For Inner West Council, these are shown in the table below. It is expected that Council will need to report on these indicators at least annually.

Indicator

Progress

Net financial savings (NPV) of $60 million over 10 years included in Council’s financial forecasts

These savings figures are based on the KPMG merger savings commissioned by the Department of Premier & Cabinet.

Council is on track to realise these gross savings of $60m over 10 years, through:

· Savings in senior staff costs ($1.5m p/a)

· Savings in insurances ($980k p/a)

· Savings in Councillor fees ($350k p/a)

· Savings in SSROC fees ($100k p/a)

· Expected savings through more effective/scaled procurement (est. $1.3m)

It is important to stress that the net savings will be less, due in particular to some short to medium term inflexibilities. These include: employee cost restraints associated with the 3 and 5 year job protections and the impact of rising salaries due to the substantially different salary bases of the former councils.

Other short term constraints include merger costs, including additional ICT costs associated with upgrading to a common hardware and operating platform, as well as maintaining dual sets of software licenses for legacy systems throughout the TechnologyOne implementation period.

A report on the merger costs will be presented to Council later in October.

Improved community satisfaction index score for Council’s overall performance

Improved community satisfaction index score for Council’s community consultation and engagement

Improved satisfaction index score for community confidence with Council’s integrity and decision making

A benchmark Community Satisfaction Survey was undertaken in October 2016. The sample consisted of a total of 1,008 residents with key objectives of the research including:

· Assessing and establishing the community’s priorities and satisfaction in relation to council activities, services, and facilities

· Identifying the community’s overall level of satisfaction with Council’s performance

· Identifying the community’s level of agreement with prompted statements surrounding wellbeing/connectedness

· Identifying methods of communication and engagement with Council

85% of residents were at least ‘somewhat satisfied’ with Council performance, of which 51% were satisfied to very satisfied.

The survey was repeated in July 2017 with overall satisfaction increasing by 5% to 90%.

In the 2106 survey, 58% of residents rated Council’s community engagement as ‘good’ to ‘excellent’. This figure remained steady at this level in 2017.

In 2016, 70% of residents were ‘somewhat satisfied’ to ‘satisfied’ with Council’s integrity and decision making. This increased to 75% in the 2017 survey.

5 year costed capital renewal works program adopted by June 2017

A four year funded capital expenditure program is contained in the 2017/18 Operational Plan and Budget. The fifth year is currently in draft.

Increased proportion of staff who feel the organisation has a positive future and are committed to its success

An initial staff survey was undertaken in late 2016 with mixed results. Staff focus groups have since been held to evaluate the results and to identify improvement actions.

It is planned to undertake further assessment of staff sentiments to obtain measures of engagement and positivity in November 2017.

As recruitment to the permanent structure progresses, providing more certainty and a stronger sense of team, and the benefits of team co-location and systems integration take hold, it is anticipated that positive staff sentiment has increased.

Diversity of representation at engagement forums and on strategic reference groups (SRGs)

Following an extensive EOI process, the following eight Strategic Reference Groups were created in February 2017:

· Young Leaders Reference Group

· Social Inclusion Strategic Reference Group

· Economic Development Strategic Reference Group

· Housing and Affordability Reference Group

· Transport Strategic Reference Group

· Environment Strategic Reference Group

· Planning and Heritage Strategic Reference Group

· Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Reference Group

Across the groups there is a good mix of new representatives and previous committee members. Care was taken to ensure the membership of each SRG drew broadly from across the new larger LGA. The SRGs are meeting regularly and are functioning well. The effectiveness of the SRGs is due to be reviewed after one year of operation in February/March 2018.

90% of housing development applications determined within 40 days

Council has fundamentally reformed its Development Application system to improve the customer experience.

In May 2017, Council adopted a new Development Advisory and Assessment Policy which focuses on a consistent and improved pre-DA process in order that applications lodged are complete, ‘approvable’ and less likely to generate substantial objections from neighbours and the broader community.

While the policy and changes to practice have only been in place a short time, we are already seeing positive signs.

It is relevant to note that the NSW Government has changed its definition of what constitutes a ‘housing approval’, to an extent that the target not only captures a very small percentage of Council’s approvals and is no longer the key metric of performance in development assessment. Rather, Council continues to reduce its average processing time for all applications. Council’s average DA processing time reached a peak of 113 days for the month of January 2017, with this figure reduced to an average of 81 days in August 2017.

Overall, we have reduced backlog applications older than 120 days by 55% and those over 40 days by 33% since 1 January 2017.

Increased number of online transactions

Legacy websites continue to operate with equal opportunity for online transactions as offered pre-merger. The Technology One E-Business Module will provide increased opportunity for online transactions and is scheduled for completion at the end of 2018.

Customer uptake of available online services has continued to grow, with over 88,000 transactions during 2016/17, which was a 186% increase over the previous year.

Number of initiatives with NSW Government agencies and others on identified priority issues

With Council’s new larger scale concerted efforts are being made to influence key policy, planning and infrastructure decisions. Notable inroads have been made in a number of areas to date, including:

WestConnex

Council has advocated a mature two-part approach. With almost 60 per cent of the community opposing WestConnex (Micromex, 2016), Council’s principal position has been opposition to the project given our strong view that urban motorways are an outmoded transport option. However, recognising that the project is under construction, Council has been interventionist in trying to get improved management of construction and other impacts on residents. The monthly WestConnex Community Liaison Forum has ensured that impacted residents have had access to key regulatory authorities, such as the Department of Planning & Environment and EPA.

Council has also achieved a number of significant improvements for the community from the project rollout, including obtaining a dedicated in-house Compliance Officer who is working hard to ensure the project complies with its conditions of approval; gaining a guarantee that all residual lands associated with the project will be given back to the community; securing undergrounding of the proposed Rozelle interchange; and abandonment of plans for what would have been a highly invasive construction dive site next to Sydney Secondary College at Leichhardt.

Council pushed hard for the establishment of the State Government’s WestConnex Community Reference Group, but in reality it is delivering little benefit for residents due to Sydney Motorway Corporation’s failure to bring appropriate technical level representation to the meetings and to engage proactively on how the project’s significant impacts might be better managed.

Parramatta Road Guided Electric Transport (GET)

In late 2016, the State Government released ambitious renewal plans for Parramatta Road which included 27,000 new homes and 50,000 new jobs; without a proper public transport solution, the Government only committing to a rapid bus system.

Council, in conjunction with the City of Canada Bay Council, undertook a public transport options study for Parramatta Road which conclusively demonstrated that the proposed State Government option of reliance on diesel-fuelled buses did not represent an appropriate transformative transport solution. Council’s study instead recommended the introduction of a Guided Electric Transit System (GETS), leading technology which is increasingly being introduced in many European and North American cities. The technology has many similarities to and advantages of light rail, but without the high construction and disruption costs. In a big win for Council, arrangements are being finalised with the State Government to undertake a joint preliminary feasibility study into the proposal.

Affordable Housing

One of the most critical issues facing the Inner West is lack of affordable housing, with the traditional demographic of the Inner West struggling to find affordable rental housing. Following extensive community consultation on a draft Affordable Housing Policy which was strongly supported by the community, Council introduced its city-leading policy in March 2017. The policy is strongly founded on economic viability principles and targets the gain in land value achieved when land is rezoned to a higher density residential use. It requires 15 per cent of units on large private sector sites to be provided for affordable housing and 30 per cent on government sites.

Council is currently working with the Department of Planning and Environment to obtain recognition of the policy in State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP) 70 – Affordable Rental Housing, which would enable a transparent and streamlined approach to the delivery of affordable rental housing.

Protection of our urban forest

Another area where Council has made inroads is in the protection of our street trees. Last winter Ausgrid and its contractors performed a very significant cut to many of our local trees. There was widespread community concern resulting in over 100 complaints. As a result of meetings between Council and Ausgrid’s CEO, Ausgrid has agreed to and is currently implementing a much reduced cut this winter, as well as committing to work with Inner West Council on a bespoke approach to our street trees in the future.

Completing the Greenway

Council has also been successful in securing a substantial boost to funding of the Cooks River to Iron Cove Greenway. Early in the term of Administration, Council secured a commitment of $7.25 million from Transport for NSW. This was matched by a $7.25 million commitment by Council, enabling completion of the remaining 3.2 kilometres of the Greenway shared path, from Parramatta Road to the Cooks River, by 2021. This is a long delayed and much needed outcome that the community and former councils had been campaigning for over a decade.

Increased proportion of staff who believe in the values of the organisation

Council’s FIRST Organisational Values – flexibility, integrity, respect and spirit of team - were launched in April 2017. The planned staff engagement survey to be conducted in November 2017 will provide a baseline measure of the percentage of staff who believe in the values.

FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

Council has requested a report on the costs of the merger. This report will be provided to the next Ordinary Council Meeting on 24 October 2017.

OTHER STAFF COMMENTS

This report reflects the contributions of Council staff across all Service Units.

PUBLIC CONSULTATION

Not applicable. This report is available to the community on Council’s website.

CONCLUSION

Significant progress has been made in the last year as outlined in the report. It has been an incredibly busy and challenging period for Council staff, who have been juggling a merger implementation and delivering services as usual. It is particularly pleasing to note that there have been no significant service disruptions and that community satisfaction with Inner West Council has not only remained high, but improved.

Notwithstanding the significant progress, it is important to be mindful that the task of creating a new organisation from three merged entities is complex and will taking several years to complete.

ATTACHMENTS

1.⇩

Integration and Innovation Plan June 2016

Council Meeting

12 October 2017

Minutes of Local Traffic Committee Meeting

Held at Council Chambers, Petersham Service Centre, 2-14 Fisher Street, Petersham

On Thursday, 3 August 2017

Meeting commenced at 10am

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY BY CHAIRPERSON

Acknowledgement by Chairperson:

“I acknowledge the Gadigal and Wangal people of the Eora nation on whose country we are meeting today, and their elders past and present.”

COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVES PRESENT

Mr George Tsaprounis	IWC’s Coordinator Traffic Engineering Services, Marrickville (Chair)
Mr Bill Holliday	Representative for Jamie Parker MP, Member for Balmain
Ms Sarina Foulstone	Representative for Jo Haylen MP, Member for Summer Hill
SC Stephen Flanagan	NSW Police – Marrickville
Sgt Dan Chilvers	NSW Police – Leichhardt
Mr Kristian Calcagno	Roads & Maritime Services

OFFICERS IN ATTENDANCE

Mr Manod Wickramasinghe	IWC’s Senior Traffic & Parking Engineer, Leichhardt
Mr Boris Muha	IWC’s Traffic Projects Engineer, Ashfield
Ms Snezana Bakovic	IWC’s Traffic Management Planner, Marrickville
Mr Benny Horn	IWC’s Cycling Planner, Marrickville
Mr Emilio Andari	IWC’s Traffic Engineer, Marrickville
Ms Christina Ip	IWC’s Administration Assistant, Marrickville

VISITORS

Ms Mardi Walker	Item 1
Mr Ben Dornan	Item 1
Mr Troy Thomas	Item 1
Ms Joanne Dickson	Item 1
Ms Jakki Pedder	Item 1
Ms Lucy Mclean	Item 15

APOLOGIES

Ms Jo Haylen MP	Member for Summer Hill
SC Anthony Kenny	NSW Police – Newtown
Sgt John Micallef	NSW Police – Ashfield
Mr John Stephens	IWC’s Traffic and Transport Services Manager

DISCLOSURES OF INTERESTS

Ms Sarina Foulstone declared a non-pecuniary interest in Item 1 as a member of BIKESydney’s management committee.

CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES

The Minutes of the Local Traffic Committee Meeting held on Thursday, 6 July 2017 were adopted at the Council’s Ordinary Meeting held on Tuesday, 25 July 2017.

MATTERS ARISING FROM COUNCIL’S RESOLUTION OF MINUTES

Nil.

T0817 Item 1 Local Route 16 (Addison Road) - Public Consultation Report And Revised Concept Plan (Marrickville Ward/Summer Hill Electorate/Marrickville LAC)

SUMMARY

A revised concept plan for improvements to Local Route 16, a bicycle route identified in Council’s Marrickville Bicycle Plan, has been developed following public exhibition of the draft concept plan. This report presents a summary of feedback received during consultation with the local community and other stakeholders, and recommends that the revised concept plan be approved and detailed designs for the route be developed.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

1. The revised concept plan for Local Route 16 (sheets B16049-C320 to B16049-C335) be approved; and

2. Detailed designs for the route be developed.

DISCUSSION

Public speakers: Ms Mardi Walker, Mr Ben Dornan, Mr Troy Thomas, Ms Joanne Dickson,

Ms Jakki Pedder (attended at 10.02am)

The speakers, residents of Addison Road, stated that they did not support the proposed cycle lane and made the following comments:

· The Road Safety Audit Report indicates the reduced parking lane width as a medium risk in relation to potential conflict between cyclists and car doors when car passengers exit from the left side into the cycle lane, in particular children.

· The Road Safety Audit Report does not address the safety issues arising from the reduced buffer zone between the parking lane and the traffic lane given that Addison Road is a highly utilised road and is often used by heavy vehicles.

· Reducing vehicle speeds along Addison Road has not been adequately addressed by the Project Designer in the audit report.

· Kerbs on the north side of Addison Road are 250mm-300mm high which does not allow residents to park close to the kerb and the design does not seem to take this issue into account.

· Residents did not fully understand the plans and what was proposed for the street and some residents also had difficulty locating the plans on Council’s website.

· Queried the implementation of such a proposal to other streets in Sydney, with similar usage and traffic volumes, that have a cycleway configuration similar to the one proposed for Addison Road.

· There has been no cost analysis undertaken on minimising risks.

· Newington Road and the back streets of Addison Road are better alternatives for a cycleway and noted that the proposed plan already uses parts of these streets.

· A video and several photos were also tabled.

(The speakers left the meeting at 10.37am)

Council Officers advised that in response to the Road Safety Audit report and feedback received, the revised concept plan was amended to increase the buffer between the car door and the cycleway to 0.4m. This is consistent with the buffer on existing bike paths in other parts of inner Sydney. The increased buffer would require the bike path to be partially constructed on the existing kerb and verge.

The representative for the Member for Balmain stated that he does not support the proposal in its current form for safety reasons as raised by the speakers. Positioning the bike lane adjacent to the kerb could result in residents placing their bins in the bike lane creating a hazard for cyclists. The representative questioned the use of Addison Road and asked why the entire route is not a shared path instead of part cycleway and part shared path.

The representative for Marrickville Police stated that he does not support the proposal, citing an increase in car door strikes involving cyclists.

Council Officers noted that the eastern end of Addison Road is narrower than the western end of the road and that crash history data for Addison Road shows there is no significant difference in the number and types of crashes in the narrow section of the road compared with the wide section of the road. The proposal plans to reduce the width of the wider section of the road to a width similar to the eastern end of the road. There is evidence of slower speeds on the narrow section of Addison Road compared to the wider section of the street.

Council Officers indicated that:

· City of Sydney representatives have advised that the number of bike accidents have fallen at locations where two-way bike paths have been built;

· car door accidents are more frequent on the driver side when cyclists approach the driver’s right blind spot. The proposal will have cyclists approaching the front of the parked car where there is greater visibility for both the cyclist and driver;

· passenger side door accidents happen less often than driver door accidents and under the proposal, any impacts to the cyclist will occur on the footpath side of the street instead of the traffic side.

Committee members were advised that an additional Road Safety Audit will be conducted if the proposal progresses to the detailed design stage.

It was suggested Council have an on-site meeting with residents to demonstrate what is being proposed and to investigate the issue of kerb heights. Committee members agreed to defer the item to allow for further community consultation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT the item be deferred for further community consultation.

For motion: Unanimous

T0817 Item 2 Seven Bridges Walk - Special Event - (Leichhardt & Balmain Ward/Balmain Electorate/Leichhardt LAC)

SUMMARY

The Cancer Council NSW Seven Bridges Walk event will be held on Sunday, 29th October 2017 at various locations in Sydney including areas within the Inner West Council. The Event is in its 12th year of operation and the applicant seeks approval again in 2017.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

The Cancer Council NSW Seven Bridges Walk to be held on Sunday, 29^th October 2017 be approved, subject to a current Public Liability Insurance Policy which includes the Inner West Council being an interested party being submitted by the event organiser prior to the event.

DISCUSSION

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

For motion: Unanimous

T0817 Item 3 2017 St Brendan’s Parish And School Spring Fair - Proposed Temporary Road Closure To Hold School Spring Fair On Sunday 5th November 2017 (Leichhardt Ward/Balmain Electorate/Leichhardt LAC)

SUMMARY

In order to accommodate the St Brendan’s Parish and School Spring Fair, the St Brendan’s Spring Fair Committee has requested the temporary closure of Collins Street between Johnston Lane and Johnston Street, Annandale. A temporary road closure is proposed for Sunday, 5th November 2017 between the hours of 8.00am and 4.00pm.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

1) That the temporary closure of Collins Street between Johnston Lane and Johnston Street, Annandale, on Sunday 5^th November 2017 between 8:00am and 4:00pm be supported subject to the following conditions:

a) That a three (3) metre unencumbered passage be available for emergency vehicles and pedestrians through the closed section of Collins Street at all times.

b) That approval is sought from RMS to close Collins Street between Johnston Lane and Johnston Street, Annandale be obtained prior to the event.

c) The occupation of the road carriageway must not occur until the road has been physically closed.

d) That the applicant notifies all affected businesses, residents and other occupants of the temporary road closure prior to the event. Any concerns or requirements in relation to the road closure raised by business proprietors, residents and other occupants must be resolved or accommodated. The notification shall involve at the minimum an information letterbox drop distributed two weeks prior to the commencement of the event.

e) That the approved Traffic Management Plan (TMP) be implemented at the applicant’s expense.

f) That the organiser be advised to arrange RMS accredited traffic controllers to manage the road closure.

g) That the applicant provide and erects barricades and signage in accordance with Australian Standard AS 1742.3-2002: Traffic Control Devices for Works on Roads. As a minimum the following must be erected at both ends of the road closure area:

a. Barrier Boards

b. ‘Road Closed’ (T2-4) signs

c. ‘Detour’ (T5-1) signs

h) That the applicant produce evidence of public risk insurance cover with a minimum policy value of $10,000,000 under which Council is indemnified against all claims for damage and/or injury that may result from either the activities and/or from the occupation of the public way during the temporary road closure.

i) That the areas to be used for the activities must be maintained in a clean and tidy condition to the satisfaction of Council’s Group Manager Footpaths, Roads, Traffic and Stormwater, or else the applicant will be required to reimburse Council for any extraordinary cleansing costs.

j) That the conduct of any activities or use of any equipment required in conjunction with the road occupancy and temporary road closure not result in any ‘offensive noise’ as defined by the Noise Control Act.

k) That a copy of the Council approval be available on site for inspection by relevant authorities.

l) That the applicant complies with any reasonable directive from Council Officers.

m) That the applicant be requested to provide free bicycle valet parking to the public and include the availability of this service in promoting the event.

2) That Council reserves the right to cancel this approval at any time.

DISCUSSION

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

a) That a three (3) metre unencumbered passage be available for emergency vehicles and pedestrians through the closed section of Collins Street at all times.

b) That approval is sought from RMS to close Collins Street between Johnston Lane and Johnston Street, Annandale be obtained prior to the event.

c) The occupation of the road carriageway must not occur until the road has been physically closed.

e) That the approved Traffic Management Plan (TMP) be implemented at the applicant’s expense.

f) That the organiser be advised to arrange RMS accredited traffic controllers to manage the road closure.

a. Barrier Boards

b. ‘Road Closed’ (T2-4) signs

c. ‘Detour’ (T5-1) signs

k) That a copy of the Council approval be available on site for inspection by relevant authorities.

l) That the applicant complies with any reasonable directive from Council Officers.

m) That the applicant be requested to provide free bicycle valet parking to the public and include the availability of this service in promoting the event.

2) That Council reserves the right to cancel this approval at any time.

For motion: Unanimous

T0817 Item 4 Cavill Avenue/Liverpool Road, Ashfield – Modification of Splitter Island And Other Measures to Facilitate Pedestrian Safety.
(Ashfield Ward/Summer Hill Electorate/Ashfield LAC)

SUMMARY

The following proposal is to modify or upgrade (in the interim if not permanent) an existing splitter island in Cavill Avenue at the intersection of Liverpool Road, Ashfield to facilitate and improve pedestrian safety.

The existing splitter island with a gap for pedestrians is mis-aligned between the existing kerb ramps at the intersection. The modification to the splitter island will involve aligning the pram ramps to improve the amenity and safety of pedestrians in the area.

Also, other treatments to enhance road safety in Cavill Avenue at the intersection of Liverpool Road will be investigated. This may be in the form of either re-aligning the intersection of Cavill Avenue and Liverpool Road, and/or introducing a ‘40 km/h High Pedestrian Activity Area’ in Cavill Avenue and the other local streets or lanes between Cavill Avenue, the railway line, Liverpool Road and Hercules Street.

The following recommendation is made as an alternative to a request by the Guide Dogs NSW/ACT on behalf of the NSW Government ‘Family & Community Services’, located at No.2 Cavill Avenue, for a controlled crossing to be installed at the intersection of Cavill Avenue and Liverpool Road (Hume Highway), Ashfield.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

1. The proposed upgrade of the existing splitter island, with kerb ramp adjustments, and installation of pedestrian warning signs and markings in Cavill Avenue at the intersection of Liverpool Road, Ashfield, as shown on the concept plan, be supported; and

2. Other treatments to enhance road safety in Cavill Avenue at the intersection of Liverpool Road be investigated e.g. re-aligning the intersection of Cavill Avenue and Liverpool Road, and/or introducing a ‘40 km/h High Pedestrian Activity Area’ in Cavill Avenue and the other nearby local streets or lanes between Cavill Avenue, the railway line, Liverpool Road and Hercules Street.

DISCUSSION

Council’s Officer provided Committee members with an enlarged version of the concept plan.

Committee members were advised that it is intended that the pram ramp to the western side of the intersection and splitter island be re-constructed/modified to improve the pedestrian alignment between the ramps. Council’s Officer advised that the existing pram ramp to the eastern side is confined between footway pits and the kerb, and is considered of reasonable condition. Council’s Officer also advised that this ramp will be reconstructed in line with any further possible treatment of the intersection.

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

For motion: Unanimous

T0817 Item 5 Marrickville Road, Marrickville – Temporary Full Road Closures For Marrickville Festival On Sunday 22 October 2017 (Marrickville Ward/Summer Hill Electorate/Marrickville LAC)

SUMMARY

'Marrickville Festival' is an annual event and this year it will be held on Sunday 22 October 2017. As per previous years the event will necessitate the temporary full road closure of Marrickville Road (between Petersham Road and Victoria Road), Illawarra Road (between Sydenham Road and Petersham Road), Alex Travellion Plaza and the Calvert Street car park in Marrickville. Short sections of Silver Street, Garners Avenue, Gladstone Street and Frampton Avenue where these streets intersect Marrickville Road will also be closed.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

1. The proposed temporary full road closure of Marrickville Road (between Petersham Road and Victoria Road), Illawarra Road (between Sydenham Road and Petersham Road), Alex Trevallion Plaza, the Calvert Street car park and short sections of Silver Street, Garners Avenue, Gladstone Street, Calvert Street and Frampton Avenue where these streets intersect Marrickville Road, Marrickville, from 11:00pm on Saturday 21 October 2017 to 12:00am on Monday 23 October 2017, for the holding of the annual 'Marrickville Festival' (Class 2 event under the RMS Special Events Guide), be APPROVED subject to the following conditions:

a. The temporary road closures be advertised in the local newspaper providing 28 days notice for submissions;

b. A Traffic Management Plan (TMP) be submitted to the Roads and Maritime Services for consideration and approval; and a Road Occupancy License application be submitted to the Transport Management Centre;

c. Notice of the proposed event be forwarded to the N.S.W. Police, State Transit Authority, Marrickville Local Area Commander, the NSW Fire Brigades and the NSW Ambulance Services;

d. Advance notification signs for the event be strategically installed at least two (2) weeks prior to the event;

e. 'No Parking – Special Event' signs be affixed over all existing parking restriction signage within the area of the festival, on the afternoon of the day prior to the event - Saturday 21 October 2017;

f. 'No Parking – Special Event' signs be affixed both sides of Petersham Road, Marrickville (between Illawarra Road and Marrickville Road) on the afternoon of the day prior to the event - Saturday 21 October 2017;

g. Traffic Controllers be located on Petersham Road to assist with the movement of the buses;

h. A 4-metre wide emergency vehicle access must be maintained through the ‘closed’ road area during the course of the festival;

i. All affected residents and businesses in the closed road area be notified in writing through a letter box drop of surrounding properties at least two (2) weeks prior to event; and

j. Adequate vehicular traffic control shall be provided for the protection and convenience of pedestrians and motorists including appropriate signage and flagging. Workers shall be specially designated for this role (and carry appropriate certificates), as necessary to comply with this condition. This is to be carried out in accordance with the Australian Standard AS 1742.3 - Traffic Control Devices for works on roads.

2. The existing Alcohol-Free Zone in the vicinity of Marrickville Road be suspended on Sunday 22 October 2017 for the purpose of holding this year’s ‘Marrickville Festival’.

DISCUSSION

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

a. The temporary road closures be advertised in the local newspaper providing 28 days notice for submissions;

c. Notice of the proposed event be forwarded to the N.S.W. Police, State Transit Authority, Marrickville Local Area Commander, the NSW Fire Brigades and the NSW Ambulance Services;

d. Advance notification signs for the event be strategically installed at least two (2) weeks prior to the event;

g. Traffic Controllers be located on Petersham Road to assist with the movement of the buses;

h. A 4-metre wide emergency vehicle access must be maintained through the ‘closed’ road area during the course of the festival;

i. All affected residents and businesses in the closed road area be notified in writing through a letter box drop of surrounding properties at least two (2) weeks prior to event; and

2. The existing Alcohol-Free Zone in the vicinity of Marrickville Road be suspended on Sunday 22 October 2017 for the purpose of holding this year’s ‘Marrickville Festival’.

For motion: Unanimous

T0817 Item 6 Marrickville Road, Marrickville – Temporary Full Road Closures For Dulwich Hill Village Fair On Sunday 10 September 2017 (Ashfield Ward/Summer Hill Electorate/Marrickville LAC)

SUMMARY

‘Dulwich Hill Village Fair' is an annual event and this year it will be held on Sunday 10 September 2017. As per previous years the event will necessitate the temporary full road closure of Marrickville Road (between New Canterbury Road and Durham Street), Seaview Street (between Marrickville Road and property no. 24 Seaview Street), Caves Lane, the Seaview Street car park (car park adjacent to Caves Lane), the Loftus Street car park and Durham Lane, Dulwich Hill (between Durham Street and Loftus Street car park).

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

1. The proposed temporary full road closure of Marrickville Road (between New Canterbury Road and Durham Street), Seaview Street (between Marrickville Road and property no. 24 Seaview Street), Caves Lane, the Seaview Street car park (car park adjacent to Caves Lane), the Loftus Street car park and Durham Lane, Dulwich Hill (between Durham Street and Loftus Street car park), on Sunday 10 September 2017 between 3:00am and 8:00pm, for the holding of the annual ‘ Dulwich Hill Village Fair’ (Class 2 event under the RMS Special Events Guide), be APPROVED subject to the following conditions:

a. The temporary road closures be advertised in the local newspaper providing 28 days notice for submissions;

c. Notice of the proposed event be forwarded to the N.S.W. Police, State Transit Authority, Marrickville Local Area Commander, the NSW Fire Brigades and the NSW Ambulance Services;

d. Advance notification signs for the event be strategically installed at least two (2) weeks prior to the event;

f. A 4-metre wide emergency vehicle access must be maintained through the ‘closed’ road area during the course of the festival;

g. All affected residents and businesses in the closed road area be notified in writing through a letter box drop of surrounding properties at least two (2) weeks prior to event; and

h. Adequate vehicular traffic control shall be provided for the protection and convenience of pedestrians and motorists including appropriate signage and flagging. Workers shall be specially designated for this role (and carry appropriate certificates), as necessary to comply with this condition. This is to be carried out in accordance with the Australian Standard AS 1742.3 - Traffic Control Devices for works on roads.

DISCUSSION

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

a. The temporary road closures be advertised in the local newspaper providing 28 days notice for submissions;

c. Notice of the proposed event be forwarded to the N.S.W. Police, State Transit Authority, Marrickville Local Area Commander, the NSW Fire Brigades and the NSW Ambulance Services;

d. Advance notification signs for the event be strategically installed at least two (2) weeks prior to the event;

f. A 4-metre wide emergency vehicle access must be maintained through the ‘closed’ road area during the course of the festival;

g. All affected residents and businesses in the closed road area be notified in writing through a letter box drop of surrounding properties at least two (2) weeks prior to event; and

For motion: Unanimous

T0817 Item 7 Burrows Avenue, Sydenham – Proposed Bicycle Car Port – Design Plan (Marrickville Ward/Heffron Electorate/Newtown LAC)

SUMMARY

A detailed design plan has been finalised for the proposed on-road bicycle car port in Burrows Avenue, Sydenham. The proposal for an on-road bicycle car port with kerb blisters and associated signs will improve parking opportunities for cyclists at this location.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT the detailed design plan of the on-road bicycle car port with kerb blisters and associated signs on the northern side of Burrows Avenue, Sydenham adjacent to Sydenham Railway Station (as per design plan No. 6114 dated July 2017) be APPROVED.

DISCUSSION

The representative for Marrickville Police stated that the proposed location of the bicycle port is in a space that is not highly visible to the general public. He noted that Sydenham Station is a hot spot for the theft of bicycles.

Council Officers advised that the proposal, including location, was previously supported at the Traffic Committee and the only change to the proposal was the inclusion of kerb blisters due to issues with the proposed ‘omnistop’ bollards and their footing clearance to electrical infrastructure.

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

For motion: Unanimous

T0817 Item 8 Requests For ‘Works Zone’ Adjacent To No. 66 Constitution Road, Dulwich Hill (Ashfield Ward / Summer Hill Electorate / Marrickville LAC)

SUMMARY

A request has been received from Quality Construction Management for the provision of 'Works Zone' infront of No.66 Constitution Road, Dulwich Hill to facilitate construction deliveries and permit the parking of construction vehicles during loading and unloading activities.

It is recommended that the 'Works Zone' be approved for the construction works subject to Council fees and charges and that the existing mobility parking space be relocated to Grove Street for the duration of the temporary ‘Works Zone’.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

1. The installation of a ‘Works Zone 7AM-5.30PM Mon-Sat’ (total of 13 metres in length) in front of no. 66 Constitution Road, Dulwich Hill be APPROVED for a period of twelve (12) months, for the proposed construction work; and

2. The existing ‘Mobility Parking’ zone be temporarily relocated to Grove Street (side boundary of no. 72 Constitution Road) for the duration of the ‘Works Zone’.

3. The costs of supply, installation and removal of the signs and ‘Works Zone’ fees in accordance with Council’s Fees and Charges are to be borne by the applicant.

DISCUSSION

The representative for the Member for Summer Hill questioned the relocation of the mobility parking space and asked whether the applicant for the parking space has been notified.

Council’s Officer advised the Committee members that the mobility parking space was provided as an amenity for the nearby light rail station and was not the result of an application from a resident. The Officer also advised that a letter to relocate the mobility parking space was received from the adjacent resident due to construction works commencing for their property.

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

2. The existing ‘Mobility Parking’ zone be temporarily relocated to Grove Street (side boundary of no. 72 Constitution Road) for the duration of the ‘Works Zone’.

3. The costs of supply, installation and removal of the signs and ‘Works Zone’ fees in accordance with Council’s Fees and Charges are to be borne by the applicant.

For motion: Unanimous

T0817 Item 9 Proposed No Stopping Restrictions In Brighton Street At Wentworth Street, Petersham (Stanmore Ward/Newtown Electorate/Marrickville LAC)

SUMMARY

A number of representations have been received from residents seeking the installation of Statutory 10m ‘No Stopping” zones in Brighton Street at Wentworth Street, Petersham. The reason for the request is to improve safety and sight distance for those turning from Wentworth Street into Brighton Street. It is therefore proposed to install the Statutory 10m ‘No Stopping’ zones on the northern side of Brighton Street to the east and west side of Wentworth Street.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

1. 'No Stopping' restrictions on the northern side of Brighton Street, Petersham, for a distance of 10m either side of Wentworth Street be APPROVED in accordance with Australian Road Rules to improve sight lines and increase safety at the intersection; and

2. The applicant, respondents and Council Rangers be advised in terms of this report.

DISCUSSION

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

2. The applicant, respondents and Council Rangers be advised in terms of this report.

For motion: Unanimous

T0817 Item 10 Proposed 'No Parking' In Garners Lane, Marrickville Between Seymour Lane And The Rear Of 83 Frampton Avenue (Marrickville Ward/Summer Hill Electorate/Marrickville LAC)

SUMMARY

Council has received representation from affected residents in Garners Avenue and Frampton Avenue, Marrickville seeking the installation of ‘No Parking’ restrictions in the section of Garners Lane (eastern side) between Seymour Lane and the rear of property no. 83 Frampton Avenue. Garners Lane is a narrow lane and is a cul de sac at the northern end. Extending the existing parking restrictions in Garners Lane is supported by residents and will improve access and safety in the lane.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

1. ‘No Parking’ restrictions in Garners Lane, Marrickville (eastern side) between Seymour Lane and the rear of property no. 83 Frampton Avenue be APPROVED; and

2. The applicants, respondents and Council Rangers be advised in terms of this report.

DISCUSSION

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

1. ‘No Parking’ restrictions in Garners Lane, Marrickville (eastern side) between Seymour Lane and the rear of property no. 83 Frampton Avenue be APPROVED; and

2. The applicants, respondents and Council Rangers be advised in terms of this report.

For motion: Unanimous

T0817 Item 11 Proposed Removal Of 'No Parking' Nestor Lane, Lewisham - Southern Side (Stanmore Ward/Summer Hill Electorate/Marrickville LAC)

SUMMARY

Council has received representations from residents requesting a review of the existing ‘No Parking’ restrictions on the southern side of Nestor Lane. Council Officers agreed to the review and subsequently carried out consultation with affected residents and property holders. Following the outcome of the community consultation, it is recommended to proceed with the proposal to remove the existing ‘No Parking’ restrictions on the southern side of Nestor Lane with the exception of a section at the rear of 4-6 Thomas Street.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

1. Removal of the existing ‘No Parking’ restrictions in Nestor Lane, Lewisham (southern side) except at the rear of property nos 4 & 6 Thomas Street be APPROVED; and

2. The residents, respondents and Council Rangers be advised in terms of this report.

DISCUSSION

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

1. Removal of the existing ‘No Parking’ restrictions in Nestor Lane, Lewisham (southern side) except at the rear of property nos 4 & 6 Thomas Street be APPROVED; and

2. The residents, respondents and Council Rangers be advised in terms of this report.

For motion: Unanimous

T0817 Item 12 Hopetoun Lane, Camperdown - Extension Of ‘No Parking’ Restrictions In The Laneway (Stanmore Ward / Newtown Electorate / Newtown LAC)

SUMMARY

A resident of Hopetoun Street, Camperdown raised concerns regarding vehicles being parked in Hopetoun Lane opposite their garage and thereby restricting vehicular access into and out of their garage. Residents have been notified of the proposal to extend the 'No Parking' restrictions on the western side of Hopetoun Lane by 27 metres southward from the rear of property No.102 Australia Street to No.112 Australia Street, Camperdown (inclusive). It is envisaged that this proposal will improve vehicular access to residents’ off-street parking. It is recommended that the proposal be approved.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

1. The installation of full-time ‘No Parking’ restrictions on the western side of Hopetoun Lane, Camperdown between the rear of property No.102 Australia Street to No.112 Australia Street, Camperdown (inclusive) be APPROVED, in order to provide unobstructed vehicular access to residents’ off-street car parking spaces; and

2. The applicant, Council's Rangers and affected residents be advised in terms of this report.

DISCUSSION

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

2. The applicant, Council's Rangers and affected residents be advised in terms of this report.

For motion: Unanimous

T0817 Item 13 Modification Of No Parking Restriction - John Street, Leichhardt
(Leichhardt Ward/Balmain Electorate/Leichhardt LAC)

SUMMARY

Council has received correspondence from a resident of John Street, Leichhardt, requesting a modification to the operating hours of the existing 6m ‘No Parking’ space outside the business at Nos.21-35 John Street, Leichhardt , to improve parking availability of weekends.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

The hours of the existing 6m ‘No Parking 8am-6pm’ space outside Nos.21-35 John Street, Leichhardt be modified to ‘No Parking 8am-6pm Mon-Fri’.

DISCUSSION

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

The hours of the existing 6m ‘No Parking 8am-6pm’ space outside Nos.21-35 John Street, Leichhardt be modified to ‘No Parking 8am-6pm Mon-Fri’.

For motion: Unanimous

T0817 Item 14 Laneway Rear of 70 Smith Street, Summer Hill - Request For ‘No Parking’ Restrictions (Ashfield Ward/Summer Hill Electorate/Ashfield LAC)

SUMMARY

The resident of No.70 Smith Street, Summer Hill has raised concern with access to his rear garage when vehicles park adjacent to the rear of his property and rear fence of neighbouring property at No.68 Smith Street in the unnamed lane.

The parked cars in the rear lane imped the required turning area needed to enter and exit the subject garage.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

A full time 'No Parking' restriction be installed on the northern side of the unnamed rear lane south and parallel to Smith Street, between 41 metres and 57 metres west of the kerb alignment of Spencer Street, Summer Hill.

DISCUSSION

Council Officers tabled images (attached) showing a parked car obstructing access to No.70 Smith Street (Fig. 1) and the proposed location of the ‘No Parking’ zone (Fig. 2), as referenced in the agenda.

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

For motion: Unanimous

T0817 Item 15 ‘No Parking’ And ‘No Stopping’ Restrictions – Unnamed Laneway Between Flood Street And National Street, Leichhardt (Leichhardt Ward/Balmain Electorate/Leichhardt LAC)

SUMMARY

Council has received concerns from number of residents, requesting signage to prevent obstructed access in the unnamed laneways between Flood Street and National Street, Leichhardt.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

1. A 13m ‘No Parking’ zone to be installed on the northern side of the unnamed laneway between Ivory Lane and National Street extending west from the common boundary of No.24 Myrtle Street and No.41 Flood Street (Wangal Nura Park); and

2. The southern side of the unnamed laneway between Ivory Lane and National Street (side boundary of Nos. 39 Flood Street and 42 National Street) be signposted as ‘No Parking’ with 10m ‘No Stopping’ zones being installed at the intersections.

DISCUSSION

Public speaker: Ms Lucy Mclean (attended at 10.40am)

Ms Mclean sought clarification on the location of the proposed ‘No Parking’ zone as the recommendation references Ivory Lane, however she noted the report references Flood Street instead.

Council’s Officer acknowledged the error and stated that Council intends to install the ‘No Parking’ zone in the unnamed laneway between Flood Street and National Street as proposed to residents during consultation, and will correct the recommendation to reflect this. Ms Mclean stated that she supports that recommendation.

(Ms Mclean left the meeting at 10.47am)

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

1. A 13m ‘No Parking’ zone to be installed on the northern side of the unnamed laneway between Flood Street and National Street extending west from the common boundary of No.24 Myrtle Street and No.41 Flood Street (Wangal Nura Park); and

2. The southern side of the unnamed laneway between Flood Street and National Street (side boundary of Nos. 39 Flood Street and 42 National Street) be signposted as ‘No Parking’ with 10m ‘No Stopping’ zones being installed at the intersections.

For motion: Unanimous

T0817 Item 16 Minor Traffic Facilities (Leichhardt & Balmain Wards/ Balmain Electorate/ Leichhardt LAC)

SUMMARY

This report deals with minor traffic facility applications received by Inner West Council, Leichhardt and includes ‘Disabled Parking’ and ‘Works Zone’ applications.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

1. That the ‘Disabled Parking’ space in front of No.34 Stephen Street, Balmain be removed as the zone is no longer required;

2. That a 5.5m ‘Disabled Parking’ zone be installed in front of No.19 Steward Street, Lilyfield replacing the existing resident parking restrictions;

3. That a 5.5m ‘Disabled Parking’ zone be installed in front of No.30 Oxford Street, Rozelle replacing the existing 4P ticket parking restrictions;

4. That a 9m 'Works Zone 7.00am - 5.00pm Mon-Fri, 7.00am - 1.00pm Sat' be installed in front of No.141 Lilyfield Road, Lilyfield for 12 weeks subject to the applicant receiving written concurrence from the residents at No.143 Lilyfield Road, Lilyfield; and

5. That a 30m 'Works Zone 7.00am - 5.00pm Mon-Fri, 7.00am - 1.00pm Sat' be installed in Beattie Street, Balmain in front of No.73 Beattie Street, Balmain for 12 weeks, temporarily replacing the 4P ticket parking restrictions.

DISCUSSION

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

1. That the ‘Disabled Parking’ space in front of No.34 Stephen Street, Balmain be removed as the zone is no longer required;

2. That a 5.5m ‘Disabled Parking’ zone be installed in front of No.19 Steward Street, Lilyfield replacing the existing resident parking restrictions;

3. That a 5.5m ‘Disabled Parking’ zone be installed in front of No.30 Oxford Street, Rozelle replacing the existing 4P ticket parking restrictions;

For motion: Unanimous

T0817 Item 17 Holbeach Avenue, Tempe – Temporary Full Road Closures For Ms Sydney To The Gong Bike Ride On Sunday 5 November 2017 (Marrickville Ward/Heffron Electorate/Newtown LAC)

SUMMARY

Council has received an application under Section 68 of the Local Government Act 1993 to use Holbeach Avenue and Tempe Recreation Reserve to hold the annual 'MS Sydney to the Gong Bike Ride' supported by Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Australia on Sunday 5 November 2017. This event will necessitate the temporary full road closure of Holbeach Avenue, Tempe and southbound lane closures on Princes Highway from the car park entrance of IKEA to Cooks River.

It is recommended that the comments of the Local Traffic Committee be referred to Council’s Development Assessment Section for consideration in determining the Development Application.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT the report be received and noted.

DISCUSSION

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT the report be received and noted.

For motion: Unanimous

GENERAL BUSINESS

1. The representative for RMS requested that Council Officers submit applications for special events to RMS as early as possible, prior to the Traffic Committee meeting, to allow sufficient time to process the required approvals. The representative stated if the application is submitted to RMS prior to Traffic Committee, the recommendation should state that “Traffic Committee approval is subject to receiving approval from RMS” rather than the application being sent to RMS for their approval. Council Officers agreed to provide special event applications to RMS as soon as practical.

2. Council Officers advised that they have received a number of complaints from Haberfield residents about workers at the WestConnex construction site, on the corner of Wattle Street and Parramatta Road, electing to park on the street instead of using designated off-street parking. Council Officers stated that they have spoken to management on site, however workers are still taking up parking on the street. The affected residents have requested a temporary resident parking scheme for the area and Council Officers asked RMS if this is possible. The RMS representative stated that he will liaise with Council Officers on the matter.

Meeting closed at 11:55am.

Item 14 Attachments

Existing parking conditions

Council Meeting

12 October 2017

Minutes of Local Traffic Committee Meeting

Held at Leichhardt Town Hall, 107 Norton Street, Leichhardt

Meeting commenced at 10.12am

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY BY CHAIRPERSON

Acknowledgement by Chairperson:

“I acknowledge the Gadigal and Wangal people of the Eora nation on whose country we are meeting today, and their elders past and present.”

COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVES PRESENT

Mr John Stephens	IWC’s Traffic and Transport Services Manager (Chair)
Mr Bill Holliday	Representative for Jamie Parker MP, Member for Balmain
Mr Chris Woods	Representative for Ron Hoenig MP, Member for Heffron
Ms Cathy Peters	Representative for Jenny Leong MP, Member for Newtown
Sgt John Micallef	NSW Police – Ashfield
SC Anthony Kenny	NSW Police – Newtown
SC Stephen Flanagan	NSW Police – Marrickville

OFFICERS IN ATTENDANCE

SC Sam Tohme	NSW Police – Ashfield
Mr Peter Whitney	State Transit Authority
Mr Manod Wickramasinghe	IWC’s Traffic & Planning Engineer
Mr David Yu	IWC’s Traffic Engineer
Mr Boris Muha	IWC’s Traffic Projects Engineer
Mr Davide Torresan	IWC’s Restorations and Assistant Design Engineer
Mr Joshua Staines	IWC’s Community Development Worker
Mr Emilio Andari	IWC’s Traffic Engineer
Mr Felix Liu	IWC’s Traffic Management Planner
Ms Jenny Adams	IWC’s Road Safety Officer
Mr Pierre Ayoub	IWC’s Civil Engineer
Ms Ranji Nadarajah	IWC’s Senior Civil Engineer
Ms Christina Ip	IWC’s Administration Assistant

VISITORS

Ms Amelia Lawson	Item 1
Mr Peter Edwick	Item 1
Mr Mark Quigley	Item 7
Mr Ben Hendricks	Item 8
Ms Rene Holmes	Item 15 and 16
Ms Rada Cvetkovic-Todorovic	Item 17
Mr Justin Foong	Item 17, representing EG Developments
Mr Khanh Nguyen	Item 26, representing Traffix Group

APOLOGIES

Mr Nicolas Kocoski	Roads and Maritime Services (emailed support)
Ms Sarina Foulstone	Representative for Jo Haylen MP, Member for Summer Hill
Sgt Dan Chilvers	NSW Police – Leichhardt (emailed support)
Mr George Tsaprounis	IWC’s Coordinator Traffic Engineering Services

ADDENDUM: Ms Foulstone emailed her apology and raised questions on the following two Items:

Item 9 – Drivers passing the pedestrian crossing on Chapel Street near Shepherd Street are not expecting another crossing as they approach Illawarra Road. Ms Foulstone wanted to know about the use of the zig zag road markings in the lead up to the crossings to alert drivers to the crossing and suggested this could also be used for the crossing on Illawarra Road.

Council Officers advised that:

· The proposed design had intended on keeping the existing zig zag linemarking along Illawarra Road and Council’s Design Engineers have been made aware that the zig zag linemarking on the approach to the crossing is to remain during implementation.

· Speed count data indicates that the 85^th percentile speed at the existing pedestrian crossing on Chapel Street near Shepherd Street is 40.7km/hr.

· There were no recorded crashes/accidents between July 2011 – June 2016 at this location.

· Council Officers will undertake further investigation to determine whether zig zag linemarking on approach to the pedestrian crossing on Chapel Street should be introduced.

Item 10 – Ms Foulstone requested confirmation that there is enough space for at least one vehicle between the crossing and Toothill Street, to eliminate any vehicles being on the crossing whilst checking for traffic before entering that intersection.

Council Officers advised that the distance between the proposed pedestrian crossing linemarking and the proposed relocation of the ‘Stop’ holding line is 6.6 metres in length. The proposed raised pedestrian crossing in Denison Road has been relocated to provide sufficient space for one vehicle to wait at the ‘Stop’ line intersection without impeding the pedestrian crossing linemarking.

The Local Member advised that she was satisfied with the information for both of the Items.

DISCLOSURES OF INTERESTS: Nil.

CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES

Minutes of the Local Traffic Committee Meeting held on Thursday, 3 August 2017 are awaiting adoption. In order to meet the event date for the Dulwich Hill Village Fair 2017, the unanimous recommendation by the Local Traffic Committee concerning Item 6 Marrickville Road, Marrickville – Temporary Full Road Closures for Dulwich Hill Village Fair On Sunday 10 September 2017 has been approved by Roads & Maritime Services.

MATTERS ARISING FROM COUNCIL’S RESOLUTION OF MINUTES

Nil.

T0917 Item 1 Dulwich Hill North LATM Final Report

SUMMARY

This is a recommendation to endorse the final Dulwich Hill North Local Area Traffic

Management report. The proposals within the report are based on community input and

analysis of the submissions from the Public Exhibition period through 17 May and 14 June

2017. There were 108 submissions from individual households relating to specific streets or

treatments. 70 (65%) submissions indicated support or support with changes to the proposals.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT the final Dulwich Hill LATM report be endorsed for implementation including the following Table 1 Final LATM treatments:

Item No.	Street	Recommended Measures
1.1	Constitution Rd	Install cast in-situ rumble bars or fully mountable splitter islands at Denison Rd roundabout
1.2		Reconstruct southern Splitter island to include pedestrian refuge at Williams Pde
1.3		Install cast in-situ rumble bars along the centreline between Denison Rd and Williams Pde
1.4		Install a fixed radar speed display east of Grove St for eastbound traffic.
1.5		Linemark on-road bicycle symbols between Old Canterbury Rd and New Canterbury Rd.
2.1	Denison Rd	Reconstruct existing road hump to a two-way one-lane slow point near H/N 152
2.2		Install cast in-situ rumble bars or fully mountable splitter islands at Eltham St roundabout.
2.3		Change intersection priority at Dulwich St
2.4		Change intersection priority at Pigott St
2.5		Introduce AM peak “No Left Turn” restriction from New Canterbury Rd, subject to further traffic survey at New Canterbury Rd
2.6		Linemark 2.1m wide parking lane
2.7		Linemark on-road bike symbols
3.1	Windsor Rd	Construct pedestrian refuge island between Rosedale St and Weston St.
3.2		Construct entry threshold treatment at Old Canterbury Rd
3.3		Linemark on-road bicycle symbols
4.1	Union St	Construct entry threshold treatment at New Canterbury Rd
4.2		Construct kerb extension within No Stopping area and linemark opposite parking lane at Abergeldie St
4.3		Linemark on-road bicycle symbols
5.1	Arlington St	Construct kerb extension within No Stopping area at Abergeldie St
5.2		Construct kerb extension within No Stopping area at Dixson Ave
5.3		Change intersection priority at Abergeldie St
5.4		Linemark 2.1m wide parking lane
5.5		Linemark on-road bike symbols
6	Dixson Ave	Construct entry threshold treatment at Old Canterbury Rd
7	Gelding St	Construct kerb extension within No Stopping area at Maddock St
8.1	Hampstead St	Construct kerb extension within No Stopping area at Gelding St
8.2	Hampstead St	Linemark on-road bicycle symbols
9	Lewisham St	Convert to one-way northbound and associated kerb extension between New Canterbury Rd and The Boulevarde.
10.1	Davis St	Linemark 2.1m wide parking lane
10.2	Davis St	Linemark on-road bike symbols
11.1	Dulwich St	Linemark 2.1m wide parking lane
11.2	Dulwich St	Linemark on-road bike symbols
12	Williams Pde	Construct splitter island to include pedestrian refuge at Constitution Rd
13	Elizabeth Ave	Construct a mid-block watts profile speed hump near H/N 29

DISCUSSION

Public speakers: Ms Amelia Lawson and Mr Peter Edwick (attended at 10.18am)

Ms Lawson stated that she and a group of Dension Road residents support the proposed measures for Dension Road, and provided the following comments:

· The most effective measures proposed are the changes to the intersection priority at Dulwich Street and Pigott Street and the two-way one-lane slow point. Council should consider relocating the proposed slow point from outside house No.152 to No.133 as No.133 has off-street parking and would be less impacted by any removal of street parking.

· Denison Road measures are given priority and expedited when Council adopts the recommendations.

· There are concerns that the LATM measures will not be enough to prevent Denison Road from becoming busier due to high-density development.

· During initial community consultation, residents requested a second two-way one lane slow point in the street as well as a No Left Turn from Davis Street during peak hour. Residents however were not further surveyed about these options during subsequent consultation.

Mr Edwick stated that speeding and overtaking is an issue in Denison Road during the morning and this leads to issues such as difficulty reversing out of driveways and difficulty crossing the road. He expressed his support for the proposed Denison Road treatments and agreed with the suggestion to relocate the slow point. Mr Edwick also requested that Denison Road works be expedited following Council approval.

(Ms Lawson and Mr Edwick left at 10.28am)

Council’s Traffic Management Planner advised that attempts will be made to locate the slow point to a position that minimises the impact to street parking during the detailed design process.

Council Officers stated that a second slow point is yet to be considered. Furthermore, initial analysis suggested that the benefits of prohibiting left turns from Davis Street into Denison Road (i.e. ‘No Left Turn’ restriction) would be minimal and there would be difficulties with enforcing the rule at this particular intersection.

Council Officers also stated that the residents of 133 Denison Road have not been consulted yet in relation to locating the proposed slow point near their property. This would need to occur prior to any further action.

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation subject to residents’ requests being further investigated.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

1. The final Dulwich Hill LATM report be endorsed for implementation including the following Table 1 Final LATM treatments:

Item No.	Street	Recommended Measures
1.1	Constitution Rd	Install cast in-situ rumble bars or fully mountable splitter islands at Denison Rd roundabout
1.2		Reconstruct southern Splitter island to include pedestrian refuge at Williams Pde
1.3		Install cast in-situ rumble bars along the centreline between Denison Rd and Williams Pde
1.4		Install a fixed radar speed display east of Grove St for eastbound traffic.
1.5		Linemark on-road bicycle symbols between Old Canterbury Rd and New Canterbury Rd.
2.1	Denison Rd	Reconstruct existing road hump to a two-way one-lane slow point near H/N 152
2.2		Install cast in-situ rumble bars or fully mountable splitter islands at Eltham St roundabout.
2.3		Change intersection priority at Dulwich St
2.4		Change intersection priority at Pigott St
2.5		Introduce AM peak “No Left Turn” restriction from New Canterbury Rd, subject to further traffic survey at New Canterbury Rd
2.6		Linemark 2.1m wide parking lane
2.7		Linemark on-road bike symbols
3.1	Windsor Rd	Construct pedestrian refuge island between Rosedale St and Weston St.
3.2		Construct entry threshold treatment at Old Canterbury Rd
3.3		Linemark on-road bicycle symbols
4.1	Union St	Construct entry threshold treatment at New Canterbury Rd
4.2		Construct kerb extension within No Stopping area and linemark opposite parking lane at Abergeldie St
4.3		Linemark on-road bicycle symbols
5.1	Arlington St	Construct kerb extension within No Stopping area at Abergeldie St
5.2		Construct kerb extension within No Stopping area at Dixson Ave
5.3		Change intersection priority at Abergeldie St
5.4		Linemark 2.1m wide parking lane
5.5		Linemark on-road bike symbols
6	Dixson Ave	Construct entry threshold treatment at Old Canterbury Rd
7	Gelding St	Construct kerb extension within No Stopping area at Maddock St
8.1	Hampstead St	Construct kerb extension within No Stopping area at Gelding St
8.2	Hampstead St	Linemark on-road bicycle symbols
9	Lewisham St	Convert to one-way northbound and associated kerb extension between New Canterbury Rd and The Boulevarde.
10.1	Davis St	Linemark 2.1m wide parking lane
10.2	Davis St	Linemark on-road bike symbols
11.1	Dulwich St	Linemark 2.1m wide parking lane
11.2	Dulwich St	Linemark on-road bike symbols
12	Williams Pde	Construct splitter island to include pedestrian refuge at Constitution Rd
13	Elizabeth Ave	Construct a mid-block watts profile speed hump near H/N 29

2. A second two-way one-lane slow point on Denison Road be investigated.

3. The relocation of the two-way one-lane slow point located outside No. 152 Denison Road (tabled recommendation 2.1) to outside No. 133 Denison Road be investigated.

For motion: Unanimous

T0917 Item 2 Wells Street, Annandale Annual Road Occupancy (Street Party)
(Leichhardt Ward/Balmain Electorate/Leichhardt LAC)

SUMMARY

Council has received an application for approval of a street party in Wells Street between

Booth Street and Collins Street to be held on Sunday, 26^th November 2017 between 4.00pm

and 7.00pm.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

1. The temporary road closure of Wells Street between Booth Street and Collins Street, Annandale on Sunday, 26^th November 2017 between 4.00pm and 7.00pm be supported, subject to the following conditions:

a. That an unencumbered passage minimum 4.0m wide be available for emergency vehicles through the closed section of Wells Street, Annandale;

b. The occupation of the road carriageway must not occur until the road has been physically closed;

c. That the organiser be advised to arrange accredited traffic controllers to manage the road closure;

d. That the barbeque activities be undertaken on the footpath, subject to no fire restrictions;

e. That the applicant notifies all affected businesses, residents and other occupants of the temporary road closure prior to the event. Any concerns or requirements in relation to the road closure raised by business proprietors, residents and other occupants must be resolved or accommodated. The notification shall involve at the minimum an information letterbox drop distributed one week prior to the commencement of the event. The proposed information, distribution area and period must be submitted to Council’s Traffic section for approval two weeks before the event;

f. That the supported Traffic Control Plan (TCP) be implemented at the applicant’s expense;

g. That the Fire Brigade (Glebe) be notified of the intended closure by the applicant;

h. That the applicant provide and erect barricades and signs, in accordance with the current Australian Standard AS 1742.3: Traffic Control Devices for Works on Roads. As a minimum the following must be erected at both ends of the road closure area:

i. Barrier Boards;

ii. ‘Road Closed’ (T2-4) signs; and

iii. ‘Detour’ (T5-1) signs.

i. That the applicant be advised Council provides barricades and ‘Road Closed’ signs free or at minimum cost. The applicant is required to arrange delivery by Council at cost, or arrange pickup from and return to Council’s Depot at no cost. Any non-standard signs may be provided at cost;

j. That the areas to be used for the activities must be maintained in a clean and tidy condition to the satisfaction of Council’s Group Manager Roads & Stormwater, or else the applicant will be required to reimburse Council for any extraordinary cleaning costs;

k. That the conduct of any activities or use of any equipment required in conjunction with the road occupancy and temporary road closure not results in any ‘offensive noise’ as defined by the Noise Control Act;

l. That a copy of the Council approval be available on site for inspection by relevant authorities;

m. That Council reserves the right to cancel the approval at any time; and

n. That the applicant complies with any reasonable directive from Council Officers and NSW Police.

2. That the applicant be advised of the Committee’s recommendation.

DISCUSSION

The Committee members agreed with the Officer’s recommendation.

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

THAT:

a. That an unencumbered passage minimum 4.0m wide be available for emergency vehicles through the closed section of Wells Street, Annandale;

b. The occupation of the road carriageway must not occur until the road has been physically closed;

c. That the organiser be advised to arrange accredited traffic controllers to manage the road closure;

d. That the barbeque activities be undertaken on the footpath, subject to no fire restrictions;

f. That the supported Traffic Control Plan (TCP) be implemented at the applicant’s expense;

g. That the Fire Brigade (Glebe) be notified of the intended closure by the applicant;

i. Barrier Boards;

ii. ‘Road Closed’ (T2-4) signs; and

iii. ‘Detour’ (T5-1) signs.

l. That a copy of the Council approval be available on site for inspection by relevant authorities;

m. That Council reserves the right to cancel the approval at any time; and

n. That the applicant complies with any reasonable directive from Council Officers and NSW Police.

2. That the applicant be advised of the Committee’s recommendation.

For motion: Unanimous

T0917 Item 3 NSW Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout 2017 – Traffic Management Plan (Leichhardt Ward /Balmain Electorate/Leichhardt LAC)

SUMMARY

The Inner West Council has entered into a partnership with the Redfern All Blacks to host the NSW Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout 2017 at the Leichhardt Park Precinct. The event is being held over a 4 day period from Friday, 29^th September 2016 to Monday, 2^nd October 2017.

A number of temporary traffic changes are proposed which are detailed in the report.

Officer’s Recommendation

THAT:

1. The Traffic Management Plan detailing the traffic arrangements for the NSW Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout 2017 be supported;

2. That the Traffic Control Plans (TCP) be implemented by Event Services International (ESI), including RMS accredited traffic controllers;

3. The Traffic Management Plan be forwarded to Council’s Area Base Coordinator, Transport Management Centre and the Major Events & Incidents Group (NSW Police) by the applicant;

4. The applicant be requested to advise all affected residents and businesses in advance of the temporary parking changes and temporary internal partial road closures in the subject area;

5. A four (4) metre unencumbered passage be available for emergency vehicles though all the closed section of internal roads at all times;

6. All advertising of the event must encourage the use of Public Transport;

7. The applicant be requested to liaise with the STA to organise additional public transport services if necessary;

8. The NSW Fire Brigade be notified of the intended closure;

9. The applicant provide and erect barricades and signs, in accordance with the current Australian Standard AS 1742.3: Traffic Control Devices for Works on Roads. As a minimum the following must be erected at the appropriate locations:

a. Barrier Boards (Barricades);

b. ‘Road Closed’ (T2-4) signs;

c. ‘Road Closed Ahead’ (T2-Q02A); and

d. ‘On Side Road’ (TC-1325).

10. The areas to be used for the activities must be maintained in a clean and tidy condition to the satisfaction of Council’s Group Manager Roads & Stormwater, or else the applicant will be required to reimburse Council for any extraordinary cleaning costs;

11. The conduct of any activities or use of any equipment required in conjunction with the road occupancy and temporary road closure not results in any ‘offensive noise’ as defined by the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997;

12. A copy of the Council approval be available on site for inspection by relevant authorities;

13. Council reserves the right to cancel the approval at any time;

14. The applicant complies with any reasonable directive from Council Officers and NSW Police; and

15. The applicant be advised of the Committee’s recommendation.

DISCUSSION

Council’s Community Development Worker tabled an updated Traffic Management Plan and Traffic Control Plan for the event which details plans for a shuttle bus service to pick up and drop off participants and increased security at the main entrance. The Officer noted that Blackmore Oval will not be used at this event due to problems with its use last year.

The officer also advised that Leichhardt Police and Leichardt Fire and Rescue agree with the amendments, and a copy of the updated plans have been provided to Council’s Traffic team.

The representative for the Member for Balmain asked whether special event parking restrictions in the surrounding area would come into effect during the duration of this event. Council Officers stated that an updated parking management scheme for residents around Leichhardt Oval 1 is being discussed with RMS, and will be presented at a future Committee meeting.