
An Arup vision to create a flourishing riverbank and interconnected green spine along a water pipeline in Sydney’s west has won the Minister for Planning and Public Spaces Award in the NSW Public Space Ideas Competition, selected from a field of more than 500 concepts for reimagined city spaces.
Planning and Public Spaces Minister Rob Stokes, who presented the award, said these ideas harness the incredible enthusiasm right now to transform underutilised space – including forgotten or disused infrastructure – into inviting, inclusive and vibrant public places and restored local environments.
“There is opportunity to travel between parklands and link them up along this forgotten or disused infrastructure - pipeline corridors, utility corridors, riparian corridors – so that they become about both active and passive recreation, and as much about the journey as the destination,” Minister Stokes said.