Our plan
Our vision is for the Stirling City Centre to become a sustainable 21st century city – a place for everyone. It will be a hub for a diverse and prosperous community, offering wellbeing for all.
Structure Plan
To deliver our vision, the Stirling City Centre Alliance is working in partnership with the community to develop a structure plan for the study area.
See the Draft Structure Plan Report on the publications page for more detail.
Key elements of the plan
Three key structural elements will shape the future of the Stirling City Centre. These are:
- The Green, or open space system
- The Blue, or waterway system
- The Red, or transport linkages
The core of the Stirling City Centre will be defined by a corridor of green (public open space) and blue (waterway) elements running from the north through the project area terminating at Herdsman Lake to the south.
The green corridor will provide high levels of amenity to those dwellings that directly interface with it as well as providing a range of recreation opportunities for all residents. This corridor will incorporate a reconfigured waterway (the visible part of the ‘blue’ system) which will be designed to cleanse the water before it enters Herdsman Lake.
A third structural element is the ‘red’ or regional transport network. The existing regional road network includes the Mitchell Freeway as the primary north south distributor and Scarborough Beach Road, Karrinyup Road and Pearson Street as the primary east-west distributor roads. In the future regional traffic will be dispersed across the existing network and proposed transport corridor.
All of the elements operate at regional, district and local levels within and beyond the centre.
Precinct planning
The Stirling City Centre will be defined by a variety of precincts, each having unique qualities that differentiate them from one another. In combination the different characters of the precincts will make the city centre an interesting, dynamic, and legible whole.
Planning of the precincts will evolve and be updated as issues are resolved over time. The design detail of the precincts will be ‘locked down’ gradually, in the most appropriate manner at the time, whilst staying true to the key structural elements and vision for Stirling City. In some cases, the boundaries of the precinct may alter slightly in response to detailed planning and design. Detailed Areas Plans will be developed for each precinct and adopted as policy under the Planning Scheme.
Six precincts have been identified, which makes it possible to describe in more detail the qualities and characteristics that will give them their distinctiveness within the whole centre, and allows for staged implementation and detailed design:
