The proposed demolition process includes recycling, waste
management and other requirements to enable a 6 Star Green Star rating. Frasers
is seeking to achieve carbon and water neutrality for this stage of the project
and its contractors will be asked to demonstrate energy efficiency.
These measures respond to conditions set by Council when it
previously gave owner’s consent for Council land to be included in the site’s
concept plan. A legal Deed, which binds the new site owners, requires that
Council land to be landscaped for public open space and transferred to the City
by 31 December 2010. It sets out obligations for the park design, including
environmental sustainability, and covers the proposed new pocket park formed
from the closure of Balfour Street.
Next Monday, Council will again consider owner’s consent for
inclusion of the same sections of Balfour
Street, Irving Lane
and Kensington Street Chippendale in this current application. While the
sections of land are relatively small, they are critical to the new park.
Owner’s consent to include the land in the application does
not affect ownership, nor does it give approval for the roads to be closed or
for landscaping works on the parks to commence. These changes require separate
decisions of Council that will only be made after public consultation.
Fraser’s application for demolition and recycling was lodged
with the Department of Planning on 16 October 2007 on the basis that Council’s
land owner’s consent had not yet been provided. The Department of Planing
proposes to put the application on exhibition in early to mid November.
If the Department approves the application, demolition
should begin from February/March 2008 for approximately twelve to eighteen
months.
The design competition for the site closes November 2007,
with the successful company to be appointed by Frasers and begin work in
January 2008.
Information
* Officer’s report to Council: www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/Council/MeetingsAndCommittees/2007/Council/291007.asp