Town Centre Structure• Focus on Dress

Circle• Walking along

shopfronts• Links to central

parking• Crossings to

Foreshore• Cycle paths

from suburbs

The bigger picture

• quality buildings and public space

• small and interesting shopfronts

• places to walk sit and meet

Good places for people

What’s important to the community?

• keep relaxed lakeside village atmosphere

• slow traffic on The Esplanade

• connections to Foreshore

• more car parking

• more business diversity

• people living in the centre

• free public Wi Fi

Feedback from the on-line community map 2013

• Tourist and residential apartments• Employment growth• More retail choice and services• Community and cultural activity

Vision for a vibrant extended hours centre

Height and Human Scale

Principles for height

• treed ridgeline • human scale and enclosure • capture potential of Dress Circle • higher buildings on larger sites• transition to lower scale residential• incentive to invest in good quality buildings

Community feedback on height

• more than 70% supported building heights the same as or more than currently permitted in areas 1, 2 & 5.

• more than 70% voted for building heights the same as or less than currently permitted in areas 3 and 4.

• buildings must be of high quality

Dress Circle Buildings

Quality buildings

Most liked building character

Building TypesNumber of Storeys

DRESS CIRCLE

Possible Development Sites

P

Development Sites

What Warners Bay can achieve…

Then:• 30,000 - 35,000m2 new

retail /office • 400 - 550 new apartments• 750 – 1000 people living

in town centre

What’s needed for next 20 years:• 10,000m2 retail floor

space• 17,000m2 office floor

space

SGS Economics Report for Lifestyle 2030

Assume:1. John St: central

multi-deck carpark2. Blue sites: new

buildings with own parking

3. Dress Circle: 70% new buildings, parking in central carpark

John Street Carpark CONCEPT

• Deliver more public parking • Support new buildings on the Dress Circle• Activate John Street frontage• Deliver commercial returns

John Street Carpark FAÇADE

Quality carpark design

• Esplanade – signals at lake, King and James Streets

• John and King St turning movements

• Charles St linked to Bayview roundabout

Major Intersection upgrades

• Café terraces• Parallel parking• High quality buildings and small shop fronts• Bike safe lane and bike corrals

The Esplanade – Dress Circle

The Esplanade and Foreshore INTEGRATION

cafe dining areas

Town Centre Structure• Focus on Dress

Circle• Walking along

shopfronts• Links to central

parking• Crossings to

Foreshore• Cycle paths

from suburbs