Bondi Pavilion Upgrade & Conservation Project

10 April 2017

Welcome

• Roberta RyanDirector of the Institute for Public Policy and Governance and the UTS Centre for Local Government

Purpose of tonight

• Tonight is an information session

• We are here to tell you about the Bondi Pavilion Stage 1 plan and to answer your questions

• We want to ensure you have enough information to make a submission

Agenda

• Stage 1 Development Application

• Stage 2 decisionmaking process

• Q&A

Things to remember

• Conduct of participants

• Notes, recording and reporting

• Next steps: Next information session 11th May

BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND: Community feedback

• Cultural & community centre

• Music studios

• Pottery studio

• Community recreation classes & programs

• Public access to the first floor

• Don’t increase commercial space

• Existing café/restaurant tenancy & Shop 1B (Bucket List)

• Museum/heritage exhibitions

BACKGROUND: Community feedback

• Entrance to new toilets & amenities block

• Retaining outdoor performance spaces within the walls

What’s changed in the Bondi Pavilion project?

• Music studio & recording facilities will stay

• Pottery studio relocated & expanded

• Artist studio will stay

• New space for museum/heritage exhibitions

• New entrance for toilets & amenities block from within the Pavilion

• Courtyard landscaping amended to allow for marquees and performance spaces

• Community recreation classes will stay

What’s changed? continued

• Works are now staged

• Stage 1:– Works around northern courtyard and central

courtyard, plus external façade and roof replacement

• Stage 2: – Will be decided after next Council elections

– Further community & cultural impact assessment occurring

– Range of options being looked at

Staged approach

• The existing toilets, change rooms and showers can operate while the new public facilities are being built.

• Other facilities in Bondi Pavilion will operate during construction, including the music studios and High Tide Room, first floor theatre and hireable rooms on the first floor, art gallery, and Council offices.

• Food and beverage facilities will continue to be available.

Outline

• Stage 1 works

– Community & cultural facilities

– Heritage works

– Environmentally sustainable design

– Issues

• Stage 2 processes

• Next steps

STAGE 1 WORKS

(what’s in the development application?)

Heritage

Key drivers for this DA

• Community and cultural facilities

• Heritage conservation and protection

• Environmental design – 5 green star

COMMUNITY & CULTURAL FACILITIES

• Expanded pottery studio

• New exhibition/gallery/museum space

• New multi-purpose community space, futureproofed to become a music studio

• New toilets, showers and change facilities

• Landscaped, grassed & paved courtyards

Community & cultural facilities

• Expanded pottery studio

– additional kiln

– airconditioning

• New exhibition/gallery/museum space

– Expect focus on heritage – Indigenous, Bondi, Waverley, surf culture

– Further community consultation & investigation to take place

• New multi-purpose community space, futureproofed to become a music studio

Community and cultural facilities

• Relocated & expanded amenities block

Stage 1 No. in existing central amenities block

No. in new amenities block

Female toilets 14 34

Female showers 6 7

Male urinals (places) 15 16

Male toilets 12 12

Male showers 6 6

Accessible facilities 1 2

Community and cultural facilities

• Courtyards

25

26

Courtyards

Courtyards

Festivals – outdoor performance spaces

HERITAGE

Heritage

Conservation Management Plan (Tanner Kibble Denton, 2016)

• Objective is to

– Guide the management of the heritage significance of the place

– Provide policies for maintenance, changes to building fabric, potential uses and considerations of future development

• Outlines heritage significance of different elements of Bondi Pavilion

• Identified ‘intrusive’ elements

• Recommended that intrusive elements be

‘Demolish[ed]/remove[d] when the opportunity arises while ensuring there are no adverse impacts on the significance of other more significant components’

Heritage impact assessment (part of DA)

Heritage impact assessment

• DA includes positive impacts as follows:

– Removal of eastern corner ‘glass bubble’

– Repairs to masonry and to window and door joinery

– Full repainting of external facades

– Reconstruction of original tiled roof, repairs, new insulation, new gutters & downpipes

– Opening of former ground level stage (Campbell Parade entrance)

– More solar panels but less visible

ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

• Five Green Star certification for design & construction

• Initiatives include:

– Photovoltaic panels – 100kWe or more (currently 13)

– Passive system, natural ventilation, night purging

– Water efficient appliances

– Connection to stormwater recycling system

– Solar charging station for electric bikes

• New waste arrangements

ISSUE: community space (stage 1)

SPACE – Community facilities EXISTING AREA PROPOSED AREA

Gallery/Exhibition/Museum -- 221 m2

Community Space -- 76 m2

Pottery Studio 52 m2 86 m2

Artist Studio 23 m2 TBA

Male Amenities 113 m2 88 m2

Female amenities 86 m2 131 m2

Shared wash area -- 63 m2

Total amenities 199 m2 282 m2

ISSUE: community space (stage 1)

SPACE - other EXISTING AREA PROPOSED AREA

Waste Collection area 29 m2 75 m2

Commercial tenancy indoor space 671m2 333 m2

ISSUE: Trees

• 9 trees removed

• 51 new trees planted

ISSUE: Access & Parking

• Pedestrianising road between Campbell Parade and Pavilion.

• Removing 16 spaces on Park Drive North.

• New loading & access zone.

ISSUE: Commercial tenancies

• The space

– Subject to this DA

• Selection of tenant

– Competitive tender required

ISSUE: Costs

• The cost estimate for Stage 1 is $15.2 million excluding GST.

– Includes over $3 million in contingency, over 20%.

• This equates to $16.7 million including GST

Costs – summary

Renewal of existing buildingRefurbishment existing elements $0.765mHeritage & conservation restoration $3.494mESD upgrade $0.747mSubtotal renewal of existing building $5.006m

Functionality upgradesCommunity spaces $2.213mPublic thoroughfares, outdoor arcades, circulation $1.262mRetail & food & beverage offerings $0.438mPublic amenities $2.145mCommon services $0.778mLandscaping & external works $3.377mSubtotal functionality upgrades $10.212m

Total development costs excluding GST $15.218m

STAGE 2

STAGE 2

• Stage 2 is not determined yet, including

– first floor

– all existing spaces around the southern courtyard

– existing music studios

– High Tide Room

– commercial spaces outside Stage 1

• Council will make a decision on Stage 2 after the new Council is elected.

Next steps – Stage 1 DA

• The Development Application (DA) is available to view online via Council’s website at waverley.nsw.gov.au/building/development_applications/track_a_da

or can be viewed at the Customer Service Centre, 55 Spring Street, Bondi Junction between 8.30am – 4.30pm Monday to Friday.

• The DA reference number is DA-100/2017. Submissions may be sent to PO Box 9, Bondi Junction 1355 or emailed to waver@waverley.nsw.gov.au

• If you wish to make a submission about the proposal, you must do so in writing. If you wish to be advised as to the progress of this application, your submission should include your full name, address, telephone number, email address, DA reference number and concerns regarding the proposal.

• The exhibition period will run until 24 May 2017.

Thank you

Q&A

If you do not get a chance to ask your question tonight, question sheets are available for you to fill in and we will email you the answer.