Submission form Use this form to submit your Great Idea for The Bays Precinct, Sydney. There are three ways to respond:

Make an online submission via www.callforgreatideas.thebayssydney.com.au. This must be

accompanied by a signed declaration form (available from www.thebayssydney.com.au) and

can include a maximum of three A3 pages of images, graphics or sketches to support your

idea, to a maximum file size of 5MB.

Download the required forms at www.thebayssydney.com.au to complete on your computer

and email them to thebaysprecinct@urbangrowth.nsw.gov.au. Emailed submissions must

include a signed declaration form and can include three A3 pages of images, graphics or

sketches to support your idea, to a limit of 5MB.

Print the required forms and complete by hand. Submissions must include a signed

declaration form and can also include three A3 pages of images, graphics or sketches to

support your idea. Post this to Call for Great Ideas, UrbanGrowth NSW, Level 16, 227

Elizabeth Street, Sydney, NSW 2000.

Prior to completing your submission, refer to the Call for Great Ideas document available from

www.thebayssydney.com.au to learn all about the Call for Great Ideas.

The Call for Great Ideas is an opportunity for everyone to present innovative ideas for the immediate

priority Destinations of The Bays Precinct:

1. Bays Waterfront Promenade

2. Bays Market District 3. White Bay Power Station

4. White Bay including White Bay Cruise Terminal.

Transforming City Living: The Bays Precinct is available from www.thebayssydney.com.au. This provides

details about each Destination as well as the ambition and objectives that will be used to assess the Great

Ideas.

How to complete this form To enable a consistent and fair approach to evaluation, all submissions should:

provide clear and succinct responses that adhere to word limits for each section

demonstrate how your Great Idea aligns with the objectives for The Bays Precinct

include a signed Declaration Form.

This form will restrict your input to the required fields only. You must download it and save it to a safe place

on your own computer before returning it using option 2 or 3 mentioned above (option 1 offers the ability

to submit using an online form).

Use the tick boxes and text boxes to add your information, as if you were filling in a normal Word

document. Please adhere to the word limits.

When you have filled in your information please save the file with your name, initial, title and document

description/type (for example, SmithJ_Title_Submission.doc). Please name any attachments in the same

manner (for example, SmithJ_Title_Attachment1.pdf, SmithJ_Title_Attachment2.pdf etc).

Submission Details

My/our Great Idea is for ☒ a permanent use ☐ a temporary use

Tick which theme/objective and the number of the Destination your idea relates to

Theme Objective Destination

1 2 3 4 All 1 Sydney Global

Competitiveness To deliver a hub of export oriented knowledge

intensive jobs that can increase Sydney’s global competiveness

☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☒

2 Living Bays To deliver enduring, socially inclusive and great

places to benefit Sydneysiders and national and international communities.

☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☒

3 Housing Choices To deliver housing choices, including affordable housing options, through innovative design and

construction, new finance models and new moderate

income housing and rental housing models

☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☒

4 Transport and Infrastructure

To deliver a world-class mass and active transit and infrastructure solution that unlocks the economic

and human potential of the Bays Precinct and

demonstrates a model of environmental excellence.

☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☒

5 Exemplary Urban Places

To achieve building design excellence and quality urban design in all Destinations

☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☒

Title of your Great Idea Global Water Leadership.

Describe your Great Idea Describe your Great Idea, why it is unique, how it is relevant to The Bays Precinct and, broadly, how it

supports the ambition for the Bays Precinct (Limit: 400 words)

The Italian architect Antonio Sant’Elia once said, “Every generation must build its own city.” The Bays Precinct is an opportunity to do just that. Sydney is at the forefront of social, economic and environmental changes. Its sought-after waterfront is representative of the evolving, and at times tenuous, exchange between land and water, development and conservation, and the past and future. As the world’s driest—and as of the past decade, hottest—continent, Australia faces predicted future decline in rainfall of up to 40% and a plethora of challenges related to securing alternative, potable water sources, sea-level rise and climate change. Our Great Idea seizes an unprecedented opportunity for Australia’s famous harbour city to plot a new course for the interface between land and water. We see the potential for Sydney’s destiny to be a model for global action; its role, to respond to its own impending water crisis by embracing the responsibility of pioneering new strategies that will not only promote its own growth and sustainability, but which can be replicated for global benefit. A glance at a map of The Bays Precinct reveals a series of districts defined by their relationship to the water’s edge. Our Great Idea “Reinvents the Edge.” The harbour bays, transformed into incubators of urban evolution, will play host to a micro-scale approach to innovation on a global scale. Preserving The Bay Precinct’s industrial heritage through repurposing and repositioning existing buildings and infrastructure will catalyse the transformation of areas once deemed urban wastelands into vibrant residential communities and retail and entertainment centres—all the

while, remaining mindful of the relationship of these developments to the water’s edge. In this way, Sydney’s waterfront becomes the world’s waterfront, establishing new best practices and a new balance for development and resource stewardship. Our great idea embraces the global water challenge to position Sydney as a world leader in the Call for Great Ideas.

Does your Great Idea align with Sydney’s Global Competitiveness? How? (Limit: 100 words)

Knowledge attracts investment. Research and development initiatives related to coastal conditions will

provide opportunities for Sydney’s highly educated labour force and align with its higher education

infrastructure. The response to Australia’s impending water crisis provides the impetus for Sydney’s

regeneration to serve as a test bed for technical, commercial and social innovation. In this way, Sydney

generates a new export: its own coastal edge development expertise. To that end, our Great Idea lays

the foundation for incubator business opportunities and new revenue streams that in turn support other

uses and programming for all four priority destinations in The Bays Precinct.

Does your Great Idea align with Living Bays? How? (Limit: 100 words)

Over the last decade, Australia has had the planet’s highest temperatures—a trend with vast

implications for the interrelationships between people, place and environment. Our vision is that The

Bays Precinct will become the place where these connections are explored. For instance, the waterfront

promenade will move beyond a pleasant public amenity to become an integral part of the urban fabric,

connecting the Precinct’s various activity hubs via a narrative and educational experience that reinvents

the civic relationship to the water. Locations along the promenade will embody commercial, cultural,

recreational, agricultural and environmental responses to an evolving water’s edge.

Does your Great Idea align with Housing Choices? How? (Limit: 100 words)

The average cost of rent for metropolitan Sydney apartments has increased by 7.1% annually over the

past decade, while total vacancy has risen modestly1. Our approach to housing availability transcends

issues of supply; rather, to encourage immediate vitality and long-term viability, we must incorporate

demographic diversity. Our Great Idea entails implementation of different types of housing to vary the

available stock, activate the urban realm via diversified neighbourhoods and help to establish a

distinctive culture. Economic and financial modelling tools will integrate remedial strategies in a

manner responsive to development requirements. 1 Knight Frank, “Australian Apartments,” Residential Market Overview, Q2 2015.

Does your Great Idea align with Transport and Infrastructure? How? (Limit: 100 words)

IBM’s Smart Cities Initiative encourages the use of technology to infuse intelligence into the entire

Infrastructure network, addressing the rapid growth and demand for infrastructure2. Our Great Idea

introduces sustainable infrastructure as a foundation for mobility and technology in support of

Sydney’s progression to a smart, connected city. For example, a smartphone application that identifies

key areas—education and industry, food and beverage, entertainment, retail, housing, transit,

landmarks—within a specified radius of the user’s location could help shape the “Seven-Minute City.” 2 IBM Smarter Cities Thought Leadership White Paper, “Building a smarter transportation management network,” May 2014.

Does your Great Idea align with Exemplary Urban Places? How? (Limit: 100 words)

A magnet for foreign investors, gateway cities like Sydney have recorded exponential investment

growth in recent years3, posing a risk to local culture. Our Great Idea simultaneously transitions and

preserves key elements of iconic places like Sydney Fish Market and White Bay Power Station into new

uses (not unlike New York City’s High Line Park, which incorporated industrial neighbourhood heritage

into the urban fabric). This could entail integrating urban agriculture into the market district or

designing the waterfront promenade to facilitate rainwater management. 3Knight Frank, “Chinese Outward Real Estate Investment Globally and Into Australia,” Australian Market Insight, May 2015.

I/we have attached additional information to support my/our Great Idea ☒ Yes ☐ No

Contact details

Name Stephen Taylor

Title Sydney City Executive

Organisation type (if applicable) Hyder Consulting an ARCADIS Company

Email Stephenj.taylor@hyderconsulting.com

Phone Number +61 418 048 301

Global Examples of Bay Precinct

Themes

Global

Competitiveness:

The City of

Vancouver, BC and

the Bridge Tech Hub

in New York City

serve as Global

Environment Hubs

Global Examples of Bay Precinct

Themes

Living Bays:

The Arco Tiete

project in Sao Paulo

and Waters Edge in

Harlem are Planned

with Waterfront

Elements within the

CBD

Waters Edge, Harlem, New York

Global Examples of Bay Precinct

Themes

Housing and Mobility

& Infrastructure:

Vancouver's

Waterfront Housing

and Edinburgh

Transit Plan

Illustrate Elements

of our Great Idea