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

Location
Receiver
* Items marked with an asterisk are heritage-listed
Precinct 4: college
C1: Wentworth Avenue
A: Oxford Street
intersection
D: Wemyss Lane
to Goulburn Street
E: Goulburn Street
intersection
G: Campbell Street
intersection
C2: College Street
A: Macquarie
Street intersection
Precinct 5: financial
F1: Macquarie Street
B: Bent Street to
Bridge Street
Key businesses: High-rise office block (L)
Residential properties: yhotel (hotel) (M)
Public Building: YWCA (M), Bar Strellar (with outdoor seating)
(M)
Residential properties: Goulburn Towers (high-rise
residential) (M)
Key businesses: Travelodge Hotel (high-rise hotel) (M), City
Convenience Store (retail store) (L)
Residential properties: Wyndham (high-rise residential) (M)
Public buildings: *Hyde Park Barracks (H), *St. James’
Church (H), *Supreme Court of NSW (H)
Public spaces: *Hyde Park (H), *Queens Park (H)
Key businesses: *Wellbeing@Macquarie (M): British Medical
Association House (H), *Piccolo café (with outdoor seating)
(M), Cappapino’s Cafe (with outdoor seating) (M) and
commercial offices (Hudson House) (L)
Public buildings: *Royal Australian Horticultural Society
(RAHS) (H)
Existing lighting levels
Existing road and building lighting dominates and influences the ambient conditions
across the city centre. Most streets and intersections are lit, with additional lighting
used on advertising hoardings, shop signs, building lighting and office and residential
lighting. These all contribute to the city’s overall light levels and light pollution making
Sydney one of the most light-polluted areas in Australia.
6.6.3 Potential impacts
Landscape and streetscape character and visual impacts during construction
The impact on the landscape and streetscape character would depend on the type of
construction activity taking place in a given location and the duration of the work.
There would be an important distinction between an activity’s influence on
streetscape character, which would be higher than its influence on the landscape
character. This is reflected in the sensitivity to change described in Appendix I and
summarised below in Table 6-43. Consequently there would only ever be a negligible
impact on an area’s landscape character.
Sydney City Centre Capacity Improvement 346
Review of Environmental Factors