Prioritise public transport investment to deliver the 30-minute city objective for strategic centres along the economic corridor.
Councils, other planning authorities State agencies, and State-owned corporations
Enhancing transport connectivity to and within the Eastern Economic Corridor and removing the barriers to investment and business in the strategic centres along the Corridor will strengthen Greater Sydney’s global competitiveness.
The Eastern Economic Corridor, from Macquarie Park to Sydney Airport, contains close to one-third of Greater Sydney’s jobs13.
In the North District, the Corridor includes North Sydney as part of the Harbour CBD and the strategic centres of Macquarie Park, Chatswood and St Leonards (see Planning Priorities N7 and N10). Macquarie Park and St Leonards are also important health and education precincts (see Planning Priority N9).
The major assets of the Eastern Economic Corridor that have significance for the North District include:
Growing the economic activity of these major assets is discussed in more detail in the following Planning Priorities:
Precinct | Office floor space (sqm) |
---|---|
Sydney CBD* | 5,079,899 |
Macquarie Park | 878,950 |
Sydney CBD fringe* | 864,640 |
North Sydney* | 822,496 |
Parramatta CBD | 707,099 |
St Leonards | 315,542 |
Chatswood | 278,919 |
Norwest | 272,474 |
Green Square/Mascot | 200,000 |
Rhodes | 161,668 |
Sydney Olympic Park | 158,907 |
TOTAL | 9,740,594 |
Source: Colliers International 2017, NSW Office Market Research Report 2017 (unpublished)
*Component of Harbour CBD
A number of committed and potential transport infrastructure projects will improve accessibility between the well-established economic agglomerations along and near the corridor and significantly increase the size of the labour market which can access the corridor by public transport, boosting productivity. These transport infrastructure projects include the following:
The NSW Government is also directly facilitating economic activity in the Eastern Economic Corridor through the work of the NSW Department of Planning and Environment, and UrbanGrowth NSW Development Corporation and Landcom in the following initiatives:
The Greater Sydney Commission’s District Commissioner chairs both of these collaborative processes.
Prioritise public transport investment to deliver the 30-minute city objective for strategic centres along the economic corridor.
Councils, other planning authorities State agencies, and State-owned corporations
Prioritise transport investments that enhance access to the economic corridors and between centres within the corridors.
Councils, other planning authorities, State agencies, and State-owned corporations
Co-locate health, education, social and community facilities in strategic centres along the economic corridor.
Councils, other planning authorities, State agencies, and State-owned corporations