The original proposal had triggered widespread opposition from the City of Sydney council,local MPs and residents of the Pyrmont peninsula. The government has earmarked Pyrmont for more intensive development.
Under the updated plans,the site will feature buildings of six-to-35 storeys,30,000 square metres of green space – including a new park at Bank Street – and a 20-metre wide foreshore walk that will link Glebe and Pyrmont.
Infrastructure Minister Rob Stokes said the government had responded to the community’s feedback on the earlier proposal by reducing building heights,doubling the width of the promenade,and adding open space.
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“This vision,alongside the construction of the new Sydney Fish Market,will completely transform Blackwattle Bay from a patchwork of industrial uses to a stunning stretch of Sydney Harbour open to the public for the first time in 150 years,” Stokes said.
Balmain Greens MP Jamie Parker welcomed the government’s decision to remove the “very worst parts” of its original plan for the site,but said it remained “a fundamentally bad proposal”.
“It exemplifies this government’s focus on using public land to make windfall real estate deals rather than seeing it as an opportunity for inclusive and strategic city building.”