Creating a vibrant town centre

Strengthening heritage character:

Randwick Junction has been an important town centre since its establishment as a village in the mid nineteenth century. Today, the whole of the Randwick Junction town centre is a heritage conservation area and contains 26 heritage-listed buildings giving Randwick Junction a distinct heritage village character.

This strategy values and recognises these heritage qualities by ensuring future growth is directed into select opportunity sites where impacts are minimised, and new infill development occurs at a scale that is sympathetic to existing heritage buildings, while nominating additional buildings for heritage listing in the town centre.

Improving public spaces:

An important part of the Randwick Junction Strategy is improving public spaces to encourage activation and interaction between people.

Our public spaces:	Now:	Future:
Arthur Lane. Opportunities for through site pedestrian links and activation for extended retail areas.
Waratah Avenue Plaza. Opportunity for street closure to create a new civic space with seating and a tiered decking for markets, exhibitions and street performance.
June Moore Place, Belmore Road. Planting and seating upgrades to enhance this existing public space.

Opportunity sites:

The strategy identifies three sites that provide opportunity for significant improvements and renewal. These sites are close to transport and key infrastructure, and generally contain larger consolidated floorplates.

	North Western Block: This site on Alison Rd includes the Randwick Club and could be redeveloped to approximately 19m (6 storeys) stepping down to 3/4 storeys providing a focus of renewal in the north of the town centre.
	Central block: This site contains Royal Randwick Shopping Centre and Woolworths. It is a large site with important pedestrian through links between Belmore Rd and Avoca St. It could be redeveloped up to approximately 19m (6 storeys) with setbacks on higher levels.
	High Street block: This site (which contains Randwick Plaza and Coles) could be amalgamated with surrounding sites and redeveloped to generate additional commercial and residential floorspace. It could be redeveloped up to approximately 34m (10 storeys) on the High Street/Belmore Road corner stepping down to eight storeys with setbacks from High Street and on higher levels.