sydney-city-centre-review-of-environmental-factors

Item name Section Location Significance
Note: The items listed in single quotation marks indicate properties that are currently
under a different use to their historical title.
4
5
St. Mary's
Cathedral &
Chapter House
Australian
Museum
6 Queen’s Square
7
8
Cook and Phillip
Park
Sydney Boys
Grammar School
Precinct 5: Financial
F1: Macquarie Street
1
Sydney Opera
House (Buffer
Zone)
2 ‘Treasury’ building
3
Chief Secretary’s
building
4 History House
5 ‘The Astor’ building
F2: Macquarie Street
1
2
State Library of
NSW
Commercial
Chambers
‘Wyoming’
D: Prince Albert Road to
Park Street
E: Park Street
intersection
F: Park Street to
Oxford Street
A: Macquarie Street
intersection
D: Prince Albert Road to
Park Street
F: Park Street to
Oxford Street
2 St Mary’s Road,
Sydney
6-8 College Street,
Darlinghurst
Macquarie Street,
Sydney
Darlinghurst
10–12 College Street,
Darlinghurst
Local
All locations (A-C) Bridge Street, Sydney World
C: Bridge Street
intersection
B: Bent Street to
Bridge Street
C: Bridge Street
intersection
B: Bent Street to
Bridge Street
B: Bent Street to
Bridge Street
A: Hunter Street
intersection
A: Hunter Street
intersection
115–119 Macquarie
Street, Sydney
121 Macquarie Street,
Sydney
133 Macquarie Street,
Sydney
123–125 Macquarie
Street, Sydney
1 Shakespeare Place,
Sydney
175–181 Macquarie
Street, Sydney
State
Local
State
Local
Archaeological potential
As noted above, central Sydney has undergone substantial surface and subsurface
development and redevelopment over the past 180 years. As a result, much of the
ground is heavily disturbed. This has greatly reduced the subsurface archaeological
potential. The most significant disturbance occurred in the late 19 th century and early
20 th century as utilities, basements, road infrastructure, tunnels and sub-surface
railway lines and roads were constructed. There are, however, a few less-disturbed
Sydney City Centre Capacity Improvement 242
Review of Environmental Factors