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Table 6-41
Registered significant trees in the study area
Work site
Precinct 3: southern
S5: Broadway
C: Wattle Street
intersection
Precinct 4: college
C2: College Street
A: Opposite the
Macquarie Street
intersection
Precinct 4: financial
F1: Macquarie Street
B: Opposite the
Bent Street to
Bridge Street
F2: Macquarie Street
A: Opposite the
Hunter Street
intersection
Trees/group/location
Wattle Street (within the proposal footprint)
A single Hill’s Weeping Fig located on the Wattle Street
Island adjacent to the toilet block. It dates from the 1930s
(and is likely to have an extensive root zone). It is important
due to its visual and social values.
Hyde Park Barracks (opposite the proposal footprint work
site)
Two prominent Morton Bay Figs are located within a raised
bed adjacent to the Hyde Park Barracks. They are
important due to their visual, aesthetic and historical value.
Macquarie Street Palms (opposite the proposal footprint
work site)
A formal row of Canary Island Date Palms is located along
one of the city’s ‘most important formal streetscapes’.
These trees are important due to their influence on the
streetscape and aesthetic value.
State Library (opposite the proposal footprint work site)
A mature Port Jackson Fig and Hill’s Weeping Fig at this
location have significance due to their association with the
State Library. They contribute to the date and theme of the
library.
Visual context
When considering the visual context of the study area there is an important
distinction between the views offered when travelling/walking/cycling along a given
street, which are transient, versus the zone of visual influence (referred to as the
‘visual catchment’) exerted by the streets forming the proposal footprint.
Across all precincts the visual catchment of the proposal is contained. It does not
generally extend beyond the proposal footprint other than in the occasional instance
where the surrounding buildings are set back from the road edge. Such exceptions
occur at work site C2: College Street, F1: Macquarie Street and F2: Macquarie Street
where the streets are visible from a wider catchment that takes in Hyde Park, the
Hyde Park Barracks frontage, the Botanical Gardens and The Domain. In all
locations, the road network forms an existing component of the landscape character
and its visual amenity.
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