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Bank Street Park


The NSW Government is prioritising delivery of community benefits early in the renewal including a new 1.1-hectare park at Bank Street.

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Overview Phase 1 Consultation  Phase 2 Consultation 
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A new waterfront park

A new 1.1-hectare park will be created in the Blackwattle Bay Precinct. The park will surround the southern pylons of the Anzac Bridge. The site provides a rare chance to create a new waterfront park that will celebrate its First Nations culture, iconic harbourside location and maritime history.

Consultation with the community and stakeholders will continue as the design for the park is developed.

Consultation on the new park was held from 22 August until 25 September 2022. The process for future consultation is shown below.

There are many infrastructure needs that will be delivered in Bank Street Park. These have been identified in the Pyrmont Peninsula Place Strategy and Blackwattle Bay State Significant Precinct Study.

Park features

The new park will include the following features:

  • Outdoor multipurpose court
  • Inclusive play space
  • Outdoor fitness station
  • Water access for recreational water craft
  • Storage for dragon boats and kayaks
  • Public amenities
  • Marina operations space and kiosk
  • A new harbour foreshore walkway that connects to Rozelle Bay to the west and Woolloomooloo to the east

Continuing consultation

Since late 2014, consultation has been underway for the revitalisation of Blackwattle Bay Precinct, including new open space in the precinct. This feedback along with community consultation in August and September 2022 has formed the basis of a design brief for Bank Street Park. We have heard your views on the opportunities, challenges, and priorities for a new park in the precinct.

The park design will continue to be developed in consultation with the community to ensure that the preferred design reflects the needs and desires of future park users.

The process for designing and delivering Bank Street Park is shown below.

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Blackwattle Bay Community Consultation process

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Phase 1 Consultation: Visioning

Public consultation for the design brief

What we have heard so far

Community and stakeholder consultation was undertaken between August and September 2022, to help inform a design brief for Bank Street Park that reflects community needs and aspirations.

From the Phase 1 consultation, we heard the following priorities for the park:

  • Connection to Country and First Nations representation
  • A welcoming and accessible park that caters to different users and activities
  • Quality amenities to support park users
  • Consideration of the needs of boating users and water sports
  • Mixed views around the future of buildings at 1-3 Bank Street
  • A green place of respite
  • Connection to the water and enhanced views
  • A distinct identity for the park
Consultation documents
Consultation video

Phase 2 Consultation

Shaping new waterfront park at Bank Street

The redevelopment of Blackwattle Bay offers an exciting opportunity to build an inclusive and iconic waterfront destination that celebrates innovation, diversity and community. As part of this redevelopment, there will be a new 1.1 hectare waterside park at Bank Street, Pyrmont.

Three design concepts have been developed for the park, which have taken into consideration community priorities from Phase 1, site constraints, identified local infrastructure needs and the need to provide a space that can be enjoyed by all.

Each of the concepts comprises various elements, in different locations. The preferred park design may be a combination of different elements of all three concepts.

Introduction to the 3 concepts
Video: Introduction to the 3 concepts
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Introduction to the 3 concepts
Existing site
Introduction to the 3 concepts
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  1. Concept 1
  2. Concept 2
  3. Concept 3
Community space, café, amenities
and marina operations
Dragon boat and kayak storage
Youth space
Inclusive playspace
Fitness equipment
Promenade with seating and shade
Multipurpose
sports court
Community space, café, amenities
and marina operations
Dragon boat and kayak storage
Youth space
Inclusive playspace
Fitness equipment
Promenade with seating and shade
Multipurpose
sports court
Amenities
Community space, café, amenities
and marina operations
Dragon boat and kayak storage
Inclusive playspace
Fitness equipment
Promenade with seating and shade
Multipurpose
sports court

First Nations-led design

Bank Street Park design concepts centre around the following conceptual design principles, aligned to our First Nations consultation process:

  1. Healing Country: maximising green spaces and Indigenous planting including species endemic to the area. There is opportunity to highlight Tjerruing (callicoma serratifolia or blackwattle) that protects the freshwater as it flows into the garigalo (saltwater).
  2. Revealing Country: telling stories of Country through Indigenous art, language and cultural interpretation. Themes will be further developed in consultation with First Nations people and may include reflection on pre-colonial site conditions and Indigenous cultural associations, truth telling addressing the impacts of colonialism, and recognising Black Diggers, tying into the site’s associate with the ANZAC bridge above.
  3. Caring for Country: ensuring the park is a socially and environmentally sustainable development that supports contemporary Indigenous cultural practices as well as being a safe and welcoming place for all, with a particular focus on creating and great space for women. Providing visual and physical connectivity to the water is also a key outcome of the park, reinforcing the need to design, for, of and with Country.

Open for feedback

We welcome feedback until 22 March 2023

  • Click here to have your say and complete the online survey.
  • Visit us in person at the following drop-in sessions:
    • Sunday 5 March 2023, 11am - 1pm, Union Square Pyrmont
    • Sunday 12 March 2023, 11am - 1pm, 1-3 Bank Street, Pyrmont

Important note: the locations have been chosen to be in convenient spaces close to the site, however, are subject to weather conditions. Please check this webpage ahead of inclement weather conditions for alternate dates.

What happens next

  • Following consultation, the design consultants will review the feedback and progress further studies to develop a preferred concept design.
  • Additional environmental investigations will need to be prepared for consideration in the detailed design, including water quality, heritage and traffic. The final design will need to address these findings.
  • An environmental impact statement will be prepared on the preferred concept design to assess construction and operational considerations.
  • These documents will form part of a State Significant Development Application, which will be hysd with the Department of Planning and Environment (DPE). The DPE will place the application on public exhibition before assessing and determining the application. The community will be invited to provide feedback on the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and preferred concept design during the public exhibition period.

FAQs

The new park is 1.1 hectares in size, similar to the Sydney Football Stadium field.

Consultation on the wider Blackwattle Bay Precinct plan has occurred over many years. 

The Bank Street Park consultation began in 2022 where community feedback helped create priorities for the park.

  • A kiosk or café 

  • Open green space and gathering places

  • Recreation space for children and young adults

  • Fitness equipment for all ages and abilities

  • A Marina operations space 

  • Dragon boat and kayak storage

  • And a cycleway and bike parking

  • A continuous waterfront promenade along Blackwattle Bay

Yes. Culture Capital has been engaged to prepare a Public Art Strategy for the precinct, including Bank Street Park

Bank Street Park design concepts centre around the following conceptual design principles, aligned to our First Nations consultation process:

  1. Healing Country: maximising green spaces and Indigenous planting including species endemic to the area. There is an opportunity to highlight Tjerruing (callicoma serratifolia or blackwattle) which protects the freshwater as it flows into the garigalo (saltwater).  

  2. Revealing Country: telling stories of Country through Indigenous art, language and cultural interpretation. Themes will be further developed in consultation with First Nations people and may include reflection on pre-colonial site conditions and Indigenous cultural associations, truth-telling addressing the impacts of colonialism, and recognising the Black Diggers, tying into the site’s association with the ANZAC bridge above. 

  3. Caring for Country: ensuring the park is a socially and environmentally sustainable development that supports contemporary Indigenous cultural practices as well as being a safe and welcoming place for all, with a particular focus on creating and great space for women.  Providing visual and physical connectivity to the water is also a key outcome of the park, reinforcing the need to design, for, of and with Country.

Infrastructure NSW will lodge a State Significant Development application with the Department of Planning and Environment. This development application will include information about the park design and an assessment of environmental impacts. Community consultation will help design a preferred concept.

Have your say

We invite you to help shape Bank Street Park. The three design concepts are discussed in the Phase 2 Consultation tab.

We welcome feedback until 22 March 2023.

  • Click here to have your say and complete the online survey.
  • Visit us in person at the following drop-in sessions:
    • Sunday 5 March 2023, 11am - 1pm, Union Square Pyrmont
    • Sunday 12 March 2023, 11am - 1pm, 1-3 Bank Street, Pyrmont

Important note: the locations have been chosen to be in convenient spaces close to the site, however, are subject to weather conditions. Please check this webpage ahead of inclement weather conditions for alternate dates.

Following consultation, a preferred design will be developed and will likely include different elements from Concept 1, Concept 2 and Concept 3. We want to know what you like and what you would change about each of the design concepts.

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Introduction to the 3 concepts
Video: Introduction to the 3 concepts

Introducing the new Sydney Fish Market

Bank Street Park: Site of the new park

Video: Introduction to the 3 concepts

bank street potential park layout

A potential layout for the park as presented in the SSP Study

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Acknowledgement of Country

Infrastructure NSW acknowledges the Wangal and Gadigal peoples of the Eora nation, the Traditional and Historical Custodians of the lands and waters spreading across the cultural landscape of Blackwattle Bay. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.​

We recognise the input of Aboriginal people and cultural knowledge into the Master Planning process, and we recognise the value that knowledge gives to the site.

The location of the initiatives are not specific to the location shown on the map

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Infrastructure NSW acknowledges the Wan and Gadi peoples. The Traditional and Historical Custodians of the lands and waters spreading across the cultural landscape of Blackwattle Bay. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present.​

We recognise the input of Aboriginal people and cultural knowledge into the Master Planning process, and we recognise the value that knowledge gives to the site.

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Introducing the new Sydney Fish Market

Bank Street Park: Site of the new park

Video: Introduction to the 3 concepts

bank street potential park layout

A potential layout for the park as presented in the SSP Study

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Acknowledgement of Country

Infrastructure NSW acknowledges the Wangal and Gadigal peoples of the Eora nation, the Traditional and Historical Custodians of the lands and waters spreading across the cultural landscape of Blackwattle Bay. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.​

We recognise the input of Aboriginal people and cultural knowledge into the Master Planning process, and we recognise the value that knowledge gives to the site.

The location of the initiatives are not specific to the location shown on the map

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