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CORRIMAL REVITALISATION MASTER PLAN: APRIL 2008
Background
As far back as early 2005 Ron Tindall raised attention within the community and in the news media as well as via discussion with Council and the Neighbourhood 4 Committee, regarding his concept for a Corrimal New City Centre linked with a special parklands feature attraction.
In early 2006 Stockland Trust Management Ltd ("Stockland"), owner of the Corrimal Court Shopping Centre placed a proposal before Council that would effectively extend the existing shopping centre south over Short Street onto land partly owned by Stockland and Council.
Subsequent consultation indicates public opinion is divided on the proposal. Concerns have been raised over the implications for the shading-out and isolation of the library and the swimming pool as well as possible adverse flood behaviour patterns.
As a consequence of the Stockland proposal and other issues associated with the future of the Corrimal town Centre, Council has initiated a project entitled "Corrimal District Centre Revitalisation Strategy". The project facilitates the means for the engagement of structured public debate and input linked with an in-depth professional project study involving detailed long term urban design and planning assessments undertaken by a consultant project team in conjunction with Council.
Community and Stakeholder Consultation
Council has initiated an extensive program of consultation including a survey of households within Corrimal as well as meetings and workshops with the community and stakeholders.
DEVELOPMENT OF A "VISION" BY THE
CORRIMAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE and INDUSTRY
The chamber has maintained an active interest in the project including regular contact with Wollongong City Council.
Consistent with the aims of the project the chamber has sought to develop a vision and strategy that will enhance the future role of Corrimal as the major district centre for the northern suburbs of Wollongong. The vision has been formulated in two ten year time frames.
In formulating a draft paper for open comment by members, the chamber adopted a "blue sky" approach in developing strategies and major projects to allow for 20,000 more people in the regional catchments serviced by Corrimal Town over the next 20 years. These projected population figures were relayed by the study project team at the Corrimal community workshop.
REFINEMENT OF THE CHAMBERS CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY
From December 2007 through to March 2008 the chamber has received positive responses from its own members as well as feedback from several members of the public.
In particular, Corrimal resident Dr Ray Robinson has provided significant input based on his own ideas for the future.
Mr Ron Tindall, well known and respected for his active interest in the affairs of Corrimal and district, has also provided valuable input based on his contribution of positive growth concepts for Corrimal over many years. Both men have materially assisted with the development of a consensus of ideas.
Consequently, this final version, entitled Corrimal Revitalisation Master Plan (CRM) is a collaborative effort and the chamber extends its sincere thanks to both Messrs Tindall and Robinson for their special involvement.
NEXT 10 YEARS: 2008 TO 2017
Overview
Positive benefits to flow from CRM will include substantial upgrade of retail opportunities with retention and capture of significant escape expenditure along with enhanced employment opportunities and the incentive for a major increase in tourism to the district. The cultural, social and community based enhancements are considered compatible with the needs of the foreshadowed regional population growth.
CRM incorporates the integration of the following major components:
- Corrimal Green Mile (refer to Annexure "A")
- New Corrimal City Civic Centre
- Triangulation of shopping malls within the CBD
- Corrimal Shopping Fly
- Re-development of Corrimal Coke Works/ Corrimal Leagues
Club Site
The major enhancement plans embodied within CRM will provide a montage of postcard features of Corrimal. The vision portrayed is that of a new generation shopping fly of enclosed air bridges incorporating retail facilities, spanning and integrating the triangulated shopping malls from which splendid vistas of the Green Mile with its exotic parklands and gardens would be highly visible back dropped by a modern and vibrant CBD and the magnificent Illawarra Escarpment.
The strategy for a triangulation of shopping malls within the Corrimal CBD restricts expansion of retail outlets beyond Short Street. It maintains an emphasis on a strategic linkage of the existing two shopping centre malls with a new substantial third shopping mall complex to be located on the site of the Underwood Car Park and coupled with other existing real estate.
This strategy, when combined with proposals for an elevated enclosed walkway, facilitates the retention of a balance between malls and strip shopping in the general area between Short Street and Collins Street. It will also facilitate the creation of a condensed public area with a focus on paved pedestrian areas and outdoor dining and entertainment areas.
Whilst not focusing on any detail in this study we nevertheless envisage that both Corrimal Court and Corrimal Park Mall will undertake major upgrades involving multi-storey developments on their existing sites with some potential for footprint expansion:
Corrimal Court could expand to the east with residential acquisition towards Gilbert Street; and
Corrimal Park Mall could involve an acquisition of real estate north towards Collins Street and to the west of Wilga Street.
Any such expansion would need to comply with height restrictions, incorporate adequate car-parking facilities and allow for integration with the proposed "Corrimal Shopping Fly".
Major projects:
1. Transformation of Robert Ziems Park
Adoption of a strategic plan for Ziems Park under which, in time, Ziems Park will be extended to the Princes Highway and to Thurston Crescent.
Strategy involves the acquisition of:
- 3 blocks now owned by Stockland, two of which straddle
the creek system and adjoin council parkland.
- 3 blocks now owned by the Ziems family which adjoin
council parkland.
- 3 blocks in one parcel on the corner of Princes Highway
and Thurston Crescent under one ownership which at
present have no common boundaries with council land .
- 3 blocks in Thurston Crescent in three separate
ownerships, one of which has a long common boundary with
council land.
The vast open spaces of Ziems Park offer major opportunities for enhancement and landscaping at least equivalent to the standard of Wollongong Botanic Garden and Puckeys Estate. Features proposed include:
The waterways of the "Corrimal Green Mile" including those that dominate Robert Ziems Park need to serve their primary floodplain purpose but at the same time are capable of being significantly ungraded to form the central theme and attraction of the enhanced parkland area. This could involve the encasement of the watercourse in concrete and topped with stone to form a balustrade.
An appropriate floodgate to be incorporated at the Towradgi end to manage stormwater and flooding. Exotic fish to be introduced with water recycling powered by solar energy driven pumps. Alternatively, the waterways could retain their present route with embankments tapered back and grassed to facilitate easier community access and hence wider use with water harvested from the creek system used to maintain these additional green spaces year round.
Walkways and cycle ways to be introduced on both sides of the waterway extending to the extremities of the park area and linking with other featured areas detailed elsewhere in this document.
Flowerbeds to be located along the edge of the waterway with small native shrubs on the perimeters.
An amphitheatre to be located west of the Olympic Pool area utilising the reconfigured floodway and adjacent embankment areas and part of the resumed land fronting the Princes Highway thus providing a facility for a range of public outdoor entertainment activities.
REDEVELOPMENT OF THIS EXPANDED AREA WILL FACILITATE THE CREATION OF A NEW CITY CIVIC CENTRE FOR CORRIMAL (THE "CENTRE")
At this juncture, recognizing the interest and potential concern regarding the extent to which this area may be subject to flooding, we attach as Annexure B our overview
of the impacts of the August 1998 storm event. We contend that with implementation of appropriate strategies, the location proposed for the Centre is not a flood prone nor flood risk area.
The Centre would be located within and fronting the extended parkland on the high ground towards the Princes Highway/Thurston Crescent corner and incorporate three faces two enhancing the streetscape of Corrimal, the third (and longest) looking over the upgraded waterway/amphitheatre feature and across the entire park area. The Centre would incorporate the following components:
- Library
- Museum,
- Cultural Centre
- Indoor/outdoor meeting/performance area
- Senior Citizens Centre
- Scout/Girl Guides Hall
- Information Centre and Tourist Office
- Toilet Facilities and Amenities
- Tourist and Coach Parking facilities
- Transport Interchange
- A Wollongong City Council administrative presence
The Cultural Centre would incorporate a focus on the history of Corrimal; its Aboriginal heritage and with an emphasis on its coal mining origins. The coal mining heritage theme to be continued as a link throughout the precinct areas of the town with appropriate inclusion of museum style attractions such as the existing Colliery Locomotive and the Rotary Club maintained winding engine adjacent to the Shell Service Station.
The CRM also incorporates the creation of a full Leisure Centre.
It would be similar in size to that of Beaton Park and incorporate aquatic centre style facilities equivalent to the Sutherland Aquatic Centre.
Planning involves the extension of the Corrimal Memorial Olympic Pool footprint nearer to the watercourse feature. In this open space area passive recreation and leisure facilities would be established including a childrens adventure playground as well as amenities for childrens events and family parties. Shade and shelter to facilitate usage throughout the four seasons during both day and night.
Link Corrimal Pool with the existing library/community meeting rooms/education and training and administration building. Utilise the library and meeting room space with its already existing glass frontage looking across the 50m pool to create gymnasium, gymnastics, exercise spaces and indoor/outdoor spaces for teams activities such as indoor cricket, indoor soccer and half court basketball.
Create kitchen/catering/dining facilities to serve the vastly increased mix of active participants as well as for passive formal and informal leisure operations on a day and night year round operation at this new leisure centre.
The catering facility would service the needs of the adjoining football and cricket fields and senior as well as junior sporting organizations and a large number of school organisations and their activities. It would also service tourists as well as those utilizing the new City Centre facilities.
Upgrade of Memorial Park and adjacent area.
Strategy involves opening up the entry to Memorial with the acquisition of those retail buildings that front the Princes Highway and align with the existing southern fringe of the park and watercourse. Acquisition to also include the remaining residential houses between the Memorial Gates and the Northern Distributor.
This expanded area to be converted to an open space green zone in a format similar to the enhancements proposed for Robert Ziems Park with improvements to include:
- Upgraded paved areas with a significant increase in outdoor seating areas and provision for alfresco style dining in the European tradition with roll-out and extendable patio style awnings.
- The waterway, as part of the Corrimal Green Mile to be encased in concrete and topped with stone to form a balustrade. An appropriate floodgate to be incorporated at the Northern Distributor end to manage stormwater and flooding. Exotic fish to be introduced and water recycled powered by solar energy driven pumps.
- Flowerbeds, walkways, cycle ways to be introduced along the waterway with linkage to other featured areas detailed elsewhere in this document.
- The coal mining heritage theme profiled at the New City Centre to have linkage here with additional museum attractions nearby the site of the existing Colliery Locomotive.
3. Linkage of the two upgraded park areas
A featured walkway, along Gilbert Street, to link Memorial Park and Robert Ziems Park with pedestrian crossings at Railway and Short Streets.
4. Redevelopment of Underwood Car-park and adjacent areas
Redevelopment to incorporate the Underwood Car-park and existing buildings bordering Underwood Street, Bertram Lane and Russell Street. It could also tie in the Uniting Church site with utilisation of air space across Russell Street.
This substantial development would be four-stories high and incorporate:
- One level of underground car parking either side of a green-scape cavity area between ground and first floor level this would be strategically located and aligned with the flow of the natural watercourse to facilitate release of floodwaters.
- Units for residential accommodation on the top level.
- Level 3 to include a cinema and other entertainment venues with a focus on meeting the needs of youth.
- A shopping mall including two discount department stores and up to 75 retail outlets to cascade over two levels.
- A medical centre with day surgery hospital and ancillary health provider services and related facilities to be incorporated into the ground floor area.
- Air-bridge levels across Russell Street to incorporate restaurants as well as commercial and government offices.
Redevelopment plan would also include acquisition of several retail shops on the northern side of the car-park bounded by Princes Highway and Bertram Lane. This will facilitate:
- Incorporation of an elevated enclosed walkway, at second floor level, from the new shopping centre development east across the Princes Highway to link up with the proposed 'Corrimal Shopping Fly' interface between the three triangulated shopping malls.
- Further expansion of pedestrian paved areas and outdoor dining/kiosk facilities mirroring the proposed features on the eastern side of the highway as part of the Memorial Park upgrade.
5. Pedestrian Environment, Roads, Transport & Signage
Emphasis on paved plaza style areas/ improved walkways/cycle ways/gopher-ways, with a focus on safety for the young and aged, all linking up with the 3 major shopping malls.
Expansion plans will provide greater outdoor seating areas and alfresco style dining in the European tradition with roll-out patio style awnings.
There currently exists a critical need to implement a four-way pedestrian crossing at the intersection of Railway Street and the Princes Highway.
As mentioned, our proposals for the 'Corrimal Shopping Fly' involve the linkage of the triangulated malls concept by way of an elevated enclosed walkway at second floor level. The introduction of such a facility, linking Corrimal Court, Corrimal Park Mall and the proposed Underwood Street development should relieve a lot of the pedestrian pressure at this busy crossroads.
Re-route traffic flows on Princes Highway between Tarrawanna Road and Collins Street. Northbound traffic to divert via Underwood Street. Southbound traffic to flow along the Princes Highway with restriction to two lanes, one of which to be a bus priority lane.
One lane on either side of the existing roadway to be taken-up by increased pedestrian thoroughfare with provision for cycle lanes extending from Corrimal Railway to and around the shopping centre area and linking with other featured areas detailed elsewhere in this document.
Cars would be precluded from parking on Princes Highway between Collins Street and Tarrawanna Road.
Open Gilbert Street through to Short Street and facilitate two-way traffic.
Traffic flow on Railway Street between Gilbert Street and Princes Highway to be one-way only in a west bound direction.
Traffic exiting Gilbert Street in a northerly direction must turn left into Railway Street.
Similarly, traffic from the Corrimal Court Shopping Centre car-park adjacent to Railway Street must turn left only when exiting via Railway Street.
As mentioned previously, a featured walkway, along Gilbert Street, to link Memorial Park and Robert Ziems Park with pedestrian crossings at Railway and Short Streets.
An access road into Robert Ziems Park to be introduced at the eastern end of Hall Street and to traverse the length of the Park to the Towradgi end. Angle car parking to be facilitated on one side only along the length of this dual carriageway and provision made for larger car parking areas to the south of the cricket oval. This would involve the redesign of earthworks along the edge of the football oval and alteration to the tree-line and noise barrier along the edge of the Northern Distributor.
Provision to be made for charging stations for electronic cycles at several key hire and drop-off locations around the district centre including the railway station. These facilities to incorporate a swipe card capacity to enable cycles to be hired at one point and dropped off at another.
Appropriate signage at central points on both the Princes Highway and Northern Distributor to highlight the major town centre features and tourist attractions.
6. Housing
Smaller dwellings / productive use of land / expanded choices within the town centre with unit dwellings incorporated in all major building developments.
Council would need to incorporate appropriate changes to zoning classifications to facilitate increase in housing density.
7. Facade Design and Building Height Limits
A maximum height limit of 4 storeys above ground level to apply west of the Northern Distributor.
Facade design should be colourful and vibrant with a common theme providing a visually attractive outlook. Awnings on shopfronts will be appealing in a parisienne style; shorter and more rounded in a bonnet shape rather than the flat uninspiring design often associated with buildings of today.
8. Projected Business Growth & Employment
Opportunities to open up B6 Enterprise Corridors to be explored including the redevelopment of existing major site areas with open spaces. These could include the Russell Vale Colliery site as well as the prospect of rezoning those areas already partly used, amongst mixed residential, for light industrial business activity.
BEYOND 10 YEARS: 2018 AND BEYOND
Re-development of the Corrimal Coke Works/ Corrimal Leagues Club Site and adjacent area.
This major project would encompass a multi-storey Shopping Centre/Commercial Building/Residential Complex along with parkland and waterway beautification aspects similar to the theme proposed for Robert Ziems Park.
The high level road bridge on the Northern Distributor, located towards the south-eastern corner of Robert Ziems Park could be used to facilitate a pedestrian underpass thus linking this enhanced parkland and the integrated network of the waterways of the Corrimal Green Mile.
Other major innovations to be embraced, include:
- Overhead Bridge at Corrimal Railway Crossing
- Railway Street to underpass the Northern Distributor
- A minibus service with terminus at Corrimal Railway to operate throughout the shopping centre precincts, City Centre and tourist featured sites. Operation to be hourly linked with train timetable
As well as incorporating a shopping centre as large as the Shellharbour City Plaza Centre, this multi-storey building development could comprise five levels to accommodate a range of services such as:
- A sports/entertainment stadium and conference centre
- Corporate, professional services and government offices
- Services specialising in childrens education support
services
- Emergency Services; Police, Fire & Ambulance
- Child Care and Nursery Services
- Expansion of community based services and an integrated
medical centre
- Two levels of underground car parking allocated
specifically for shoppers, business-houses and residents
and a dedicated commuter parking station.
- Cinemas and restaurants.
- Significant areas would also be set aside for outdoor
cuisine.
Residential accommodation could be by way of three eight storey towers with provision for approximately 150 units and all with direct railway station access.
Annexure "A"
CORRIMAL GREEN MILE STRATEGY
The Green Mile is to Central Corrimal what the Blue Mile is to Wollongong Central.
The Green Mile is that one opportunity in a lifetime to create a high quality, popular and beautiful open space amenity for residents and visitors alike that winds through and links all three elements in an upgraded triangulated Corrimal Central Business District.
The Green Mile represents a circuit based on waterways, with offshoots into residential areas surrounding central Corrimal.
The objectives of the Green Mile are to:
Create an iconic gateway that expresses, defines and emphasizes the locational, environmental, historical, social and cultural character of Corrimal.
Create a series of destinations along a horse-shoe of creeks, waterways, floodplains as well as feeder waterways that reward, surprise, excite, stimulate, replenish as well as satisfy locals and visitors alike.
Recognize that as the population in and around Corrimal increases with higher density housing development , there must be totally adequate high quality open spaces and entertainment spaces and features central to this growing population for active sporting pursuits as well as more passive recreation, fitness and leisure activities.
Create public spaces that demand attention and utilization because of their high quality, beauty, mountain backdrop, escarpment links, sporting fields, wooded vistas and pedestrian-friendly access to a vibrant adjacent commercial district.
Focus on expanding, consolidating and enhancing the stock of open spaces utilizing designated parklands and logical extensions of those parklands and converting waterways, creeks, riparian corridors and floodplains into highly prized community assets and amenities.
Improve pedestrian and cycle access to, through and along the Green Corridor waterways, parklands and open spaces that is independent of and remote from the high-use roadways system.
Provide distinctive high quality facilities and features to enhance the unique natural environment represented along the Green Mile.
Provide a range of facilities catering for distinct groups, local residents, families, the young, the aged and visitors by creating an entertainment precinct with themed features such as a full aquatic park with waterslides and waterplay areas in a carnival/open air concert setting, a truly unique adventure playground, outdoor facilities for skateboarding, BMX bikes, putt putt golf, carnival and amusement spaces, art/craft marketplace, industrial and mining heritage facilities, cycle hire, barbecues, shelters, amenities, restaurant and a central transport interchange.
Ensure design criteria maximizes health, leisure, recreation and fitness related opportunities as well as visitor safety.
Improve access for pedestrian as well as vehicular traffic (including bus and coach interchange) with associated parking and establishes pedestrian linkages with the triangulated commercial precincts.
Integrate history, heritage, landform, topography, culture, public art, public amenities toilets, shade, picnic spaces and barbecue areas into design proposals.
Ensure future public and commercial development capitalizes on vistas across Green Mile areas rather than present backyards or blank walls along the Green Mile frontages and features.
Incorporate heritage symbols, emblems, features in public and commercial signage.
Ensure Green Mile features are designed for year-round, day as well as night access and use while avoiding installations that will facilitate anti-social behaviour.
Introduce a public competition (including schools) to develop options for a highly recognizable and popular Corrimal emblem.
SUMMARY
The Green Mile concept represents a unique and exciting opportunity to unlock Corrimal CBDs potential as a vibrant, attractive, prosperous key regional centre. It should form an integral component of Wollongong City Councils Revitalisation Program.
The Green Mile will be essential in addressing issues of public facilities, open space, parks, playgrounds, recreational facilities, sporting facilities, human movement corridors that are independent of public roads yet all these are central to (not on the extreme perimeter of) the regional population in a setting that has the magnificent Illawarra Escarpment/Brokers Nose as the high visibility backdrop.
The Green Mile will be important to Corrimal in catering for a community under pressure from changing lifestyles by providing public leisure and recreational amenities to the highest standard expected in a vibrant regional city.
The Green Mile will help Corrimal and the Greater Wollongong area deliver social, economic and environmental benefits to the projected 80,000 residents in the Corrimal catchments and the wider region as well as for tourists and visitors.
The Green Mile will diversify Greater Wollongongs tourist attractiveness and act as a catalyst and a new node for tourism growth.
The Green Mile will be a feature that the Southern Gateway Tourist Centre at Bulli Tops can exploit by encouraging tourists to visit rather than to by-pass Central Corrimal and Woonona and Fairy Meadow along the Princes Highway 1 strip.
The Green Mile will be a stand-out attraction to be added to the Grand Pacific Drive catalogue of attractions.
The Green Mile will require detailed master planning and capital investment commensurate with that for Wollongongs Blue Mile, Towradgis oceanfront parklands (with associated property acquisitions/resumptions) and Fairy Meadows Dalton Park.
Annexure "B"
August 1998 Storm Event - Notes from April 1, 2008 interviews.
CORRIMAL: Flood level at Princes Highway, Tarrawanna Road, Short Street junction.
John Young, proprietor of Youngs Auto Parts Pty Ltd, with premises now opposite Corrimal Police Station on the Princes Highway, traded from a brick building on the south-eastern corner of the Princes Highway, Tarrawanna Road, Short Street intersection at the time of the August 1998 Storm Event.
This building has since been demolished and the carpark extended to the corner.
Mr Young said this week:
A four foot wave came down Tarrawanna Road through the front door and washed everything out the front door.
He said the tidal mark in his old shop was two inches over desk height, representing one metre of water above floor level in the shop.
He said stock was washed out the front door with one four gallon container of oil subsequently found washed up on Woonona Beach. (That indicates that rather than a wave, it was a wall of water with a sustained flow sufficient to carry stock from this shop to the ocean).
He said to get into his shop, the water had to rise above the gutter and then a single step from footpath level to reach the floor level in the shop.
He said this volume of water came down Tarrawanna Road despite there being a metre diameter pipe under the highway. He knew about the pipe because kids went under the highway into the pipe to smoke and at one time there had been a scare when petrol vapour in the pipe raised concerns because of the kids smoking activities.
Mr Young said drilling had taken place on his former site when a multi-storey carpark was mooted. However, drillers could not find a solid base in the clay on which to construct piers.
Ted Green, plumber and long time Thurston Crescent resident, said only one Thurston Crescent property was affected by the 1998 flood. (That property is at the south-eastern bend at the southern end of Thurston Crescent, the lowest point in the street and adjacent to vacant land which was also a drainage easement as well as access to the sewerage trunk main)..
Mr Green said the top of the manholes on the creek floodplain behind Thurston Crescent was the level Council at one time planned to pipe, fill and level Ziems Park to create playing fields to include basketball courts.
He said that plan did not proceed. However, the depth from the top of the embankment, subsequently created by Council to level the Ziems Park cricket field, to the existing new bed of the creek scoured down beside the trunk sewer main was now 22 feet.
Although the 1998 storm event did not affect his and other Thurston Crescent properties except the one mentioned earlier, Council had now decided Thurston Crescent to be in a flood prone area.
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Ron Tindall recollects Ruth Ziems, one of the sisters who lived in the northern-most house on the eastern side of the Princes Highway between Thurston Crescent and Short Street, saying that water reached to the back step of that house the highest the Ziems Sisters had seen in a lifetime of residence in the area in the 1998 storm event.
COMMENT: The above information confirms that provided there is no tampering with the existing creek line and profile, and no piping or filling of the existing creek system any development proposed for a triangulated section of the area on the high side fronting the Princes Highway and Thurston between Short Street and Thurston Crescent would be above 1998 flood level.
Tapering of the creek banks to create an amphitheatre between the Princes Highway/Thurston Crescent high ground and an extended Corrimal Pool footprint would improve the flood retention and flood ponding and flow retardation capabilities of this area.
Tapering would also provide easier access to the existing creek system south of the carpark for water such as the 1998 wave down Tarrawanna Road, by improving draining away from the Princes Highway/Tarrawanna Road/Short Street intersection and across the carpark south of the Short Street.
Had the 1998 storm event occurred during daylight/shopping hours with the Short Street carpark even half full there could have had disastrous results.
In a daytime scenario, the four foot wave across the highway and through the carpark would have caused vehicles to float and be washed into the creek and then into the choke in the creek alongside and between the property on the north-eastern corner in Thurston Crescent and Corrimal Pool.
If any shoppers and other motorists attempting to escape the floodwaters were caught in their cars by a four foot wave across the Princes Highway intersection and the Short Street carpark floating vehicles would have carried them into the creek and the choke and hence extreme danger.
Any plans for any extension to the carpark on its present level needs to take into account the evidence from the 1998 event.
As a safety measure, consideration should be given to:
1. Reclaiming the old creek line through the north-western corner of the carpark across the area in 1998 occupied by Young Auto Parts restore an open channel with far greater carrying capacity than the present underground pipe system and grass and rehabiliate this open channel section as the gateway/entrance to Corrimals new Green Mile feature.
2. Extending Short Street to the east to join with Gilbert Street to provide an alternative route away from the Princes Highway, Tarrawanna Road intersection for use by Ziems Park and Stocklands patrons in normal times as well as providing an escape route in times of emergency, such as flood and fire and road accident.
