To investigate the social and environmental impacts of the Harold Park Development on surrounding areas.
Introduction:The Harold Park urban renewal project is in Forest Lodge, near Glebe and Annandale. The City of Sydney and the Central Sydney Planning Committee have joint planning control and Mirvac is developing the site. NSW Harness Racing Club privately owned the Harold Park Paceway since 1911. The paceway's popularity hit a peak in the 1960s, when crowds of up to 50,000 would flock to the venue and watch the races. The Rozelle Tram Depot was home to working trams from 1904 to the 1960s. The project is being completed by the Mirvac Company, construction began in August 2011. NSW Harness Racing Club sold the 10.6-hectare site to Mirvac in 2010 for $187 million. When complete in 2017 the $1.1 billion project, ‘The Harold Park development’ is expected to be home to 2500 people within 1,250 new residences, with more than one-third of the site dedicated to parkland, including the former tram depot which is being converted into a community space. The project is sectioned into 5 stages, the first precinct being the Lucarno building was open to the public on 24 July 2014.
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LocationHarold Park
116 Ross Street, Forest Lodge NSW 2037 Located 2.5km away from the city and surrounded by the suburbs of Annandale, Glebe and Forest Lodge. |