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CarriageWorks brings Parking Changes to Darlington

The letter below from Arts NSW has been circulated to Darlington residents proposing the introduction of 8am-10pm seven day a week 1 hour parking (permit holders excepted) for the area in response to the opening of the new Carriageworks Contemporary Arts Centre. One condition of the Carriageworks DA was that they were to arrange an extension of residents parking scheme hours on nearby streets if residents supported this.

Dear Resident of Darlington,

Potential change to your parking restrictions

Root Projects, on behalf of Arts NSW, has been managing the renovation of Eveleigh historic railway CarriageWorks into a Contemporary Arts Centre. CarriageWorks will focus on the development and presentation of contemporary art. Activities will include workshops, training and, at times public performances. Performances will occur both during the day and in the evening. Daytime performances would typically start between 1:30 pm and 2:00 pm, and evening performances would start between 7:30 pm and 8:00 pm. Given the nature of contemporary performance, these are expected to be relatively short in duration. Audiences for the performances are forecast mainly to be drawn from the surrounding community and the eastern suburbs. This exciting project is to open in January next year.

Audiences and visitors will be encouraged to use public transport. This will be noted on the CarriageWorks website, through promotional materials and ticketing information. There will be 81 car parking spaces on site, and directory signs will assist pedestrians and drivers in locating direct and appropriate routes to the site. A new accessible pedestrian entrance is being constructed opposite Codrington Street, and vehicles parking at the Centre will use the current entrance from Wilson Street between Queen and Forbes Streets.

One condition of the City of Sydney's development approval was that CarriageWorks was to arrange for the extension of resident parking scheme hours on nearby streets, if residents support this. The changes would have to conform to the precinct guidelines and be implemented on a street by street basis. The Council suggested that the scheme could be modified to "8:00 am to 10:00 pm Monday to Sunday, 1 hour (resident excepted)". However, the proposed change may also impact on the residents' visitors, so we are having traffic consultants Parsons Brinckerhoff carry out a survey of resident views before finalising any changes.

The process to consider the parking scheme amendment is as follows:

  • Please read and complete the attached survey, which may be mailed back at no cost.
  • If a reasonable majority of residents in a street respond that they would like to see their restrictions extended, a full parking survey will be conducted to measure the present use and capacity of on-street parking on that street.
  • With the results of the resident feedback and surveys, CarriageWorks will apply to Council's Traffic Committee for its ruling on the extension.

Therefore, we invite you to complete and mail back the attached survey no later than Friday 27 October 2006. Should you require any further information regarding the proposed change to the parking restriction, you may contact Michael Lee of Parsons Brinckerhoff on 9272 5100 or via email at ausydreception@pb.com.au .

[NOTE - if you live in the Darlington Parking Area and you did not get a letter with a reply paid envelope please contact Michael Lee and he will send you out one - REDWatch]

Arts NSW is part of the Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation.

Level 9, St James Centre, 111 Elizabeth Street, Sydney NSW 2000 PO Box A226, Sydney South NSW 1235 Tel: (02) 9228 5533
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E-mail: mail@arts.nsw.gov.au  Website: www.arts.nsw.gov.au