A long-awaited design for Sydney’s biggest station will reconnect inner-city suburbs Ultimo and Surry Hills with a 24-hectare deck.
“We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine this iconic part of our CBD and transform it into a world-class precinct of shops, restaurants, office spaces, parkland and additional housing,” Premier Dominic Perrottet said.
The station redevelopment – already designated a state significant precinct – is at the centre of a tech-focused precinct stretching from Haymarket to Redfern and comeslaid out for rail yards at North Eveleigh, around Redfern station. “But the real test is whether they can resolve the public realm issues of such a complicated site, with level changes and lots of passenger movements, to make it feel like a nice place to be. Over-station developments are notoriously tricky, and places like the Hudson Yards in New York have achieved only mixed success.”
The space to be created will include more than 60,000 square metres – equivalent to just over six football fields – of public domain including parks, squares and plazas.
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