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clean * green * heritage
The redevelopment will result in a clean green site aimed at minimising the impacts on neighbours, restoring the heritage buildings on the site, improving services and providing a safer environment for the people who work there.
The redevelopment is designed to:
- improve bus services for residents of Leichhardt and the Inner West,
- support gas buses - the lowest greenhouse emitting bus fleet in the country,
- minimise the impact of noise and light on neighbours,
- build on the heritage aspects of Leichhardt with the restoration of heritage buildings on the site, and
- clean up residual site contamination.
The Leichhardt Bus Depot in its current form has exceeded its life expectancy and is no longer fit for its purpose.
Sydney Buses has appointed the Carson Group to project manage the delivery of the new depot. A multi-disciplinary design team has been selected through a competitive tender from the Department of Commerce Panel of Designers to design the depot and undertake the necessary specialist investigations to ensure its efficient and effective operation.
Introducing the Design Team
The design team combines expertise in architecture, environmental management, site remediation, landscape architecture, acoustic design, lighting, heritage, traffic and transportation management.
The members of the design team are:
- Woodhead International Architects - Perspective Artists and access and disability advice
- SJB Planning - Town Planners
- Graham Brooks and Associates - Heritage Advisers
- Scape - Landscape Architects
- Transport and Traffic Planning Associates - Traffic
- GHD - Remediation
- Jeffery and Katauskas - Geotechnical
- Phillip Chun and Associates - Fire Safety and Building Code of Australia Compliance
- Taylor Thomson Whiting - Stormwater, Civil Engineering and Structural Engineering
- Basset Consulting Engineers - Environmental Sustainability, Acoustic, Lighting, Lifts, Fire and Electrical Engineering
- Widnell - Quantity Surveying
- Urban Concepts - Community Consultation
Design Rationale
The concept plan for the new depot reflects a design rationale that:
- optimises the site's proximity to the City West Link,
- recognises its heritage significance by providing for the restoration and ongoing use of the historic Tram Shed, Cable Store and Traffic Office Buildings,
- incorporates ecologically sustainable design strategies such as passive cooling strategies and energy efficient technologies,
- uses built form and building placement to effectively reduce noise and light spillage into adjacent residential areas,
- provides for an integrated and cohesive landscaped edge to the City West Link Road, Balmain Road and Derbyshire Road frontages, and
- provides a stormwater retention tank to recycle water.
Please View the concept plan.
Landscaping
Generous landscaped setbacks are proposed around the periphery of the site, in particular along the Balmain Road frontage. The landscaping will comprise a variety of grasses, ground covers, shrubs and trees. Wherever possible native plants will be used as they require low water consumption. Roof water will be collected for reuse in the landscape via an automatically controlled low volume drip irrigation system.
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