Implementing the Urban Farming Master Plan in Horsley Park, Western Sydney: From Planning to Reality
Maintaining rural character of peri-urban landscape is a significant challenge in Australia and it is particularly important in Australia to allow sustainable agriculture, horticulture and forestry. The Western Sydney Parklands is an urban park system loc
- PDF / 555,348 Bytes
- 11 Pages / 439.37 x 666.14 pts Page_size
- 24 Downloads / 194 Views
Implementing the Urban Farming Master Plan in Horsley Park, Western Sydney: From Planning to Reality Yolanda Gil, David Kirkland, and Rocco Sergi
Abstract Maintaining rural character of peri-urban landscape is a significant challenge in Australia and it is particularly important in Australia to allow sustainable agriculture, horticulture and forestry. The Western Sydney Parklands is an urban park system located in Western Sydney with a commitment to provide urban farming in the Parklands. The Parklands is a 27 km long public open space corridor of approximately 5200 ha. The land is administered and managed by the Western Sydney Parklands Trust (Trust) under the Western Sydney Parkland Act 2006. The Trust is committed to providing 10 % (or about 500 ha) of the Western Sydney Parklands (area 5280 ha) for urban farming as per the Western Sydney Parklands Plan of Management 2020. The strategic objective for the Trust is to develop an approach for converting fallow public land to productive space by providing commercial growers a secure tenure in the Sydney basin. This chapter outlines the process of developing and implementing a master plan for a Horsley Park, Western Sydney. The case study has highlighted that implementation of the master plan has a number of challenges including: legislative and regulatory processes; environmental and social matters; and provides some insights from planning to reality of farming in the Sydney region. Keywords Landuse • Urban agriculture • Western Sydney and landuse planning
12.1
Introduction
Urbanisation is major challenge worldwide and threatening the rural character of peri-urban landscape and it is particularly important in Australia to allow sustainable agriculture, horticulture and forestry around city fringes. The Western Sydney Parklands is an urban park system located in Western Sydney (Fig. 12.1). Y. Gil (*) • D. Kirkland • R. Sergi Western Sydney Parklands Trust, PO Box 3064, Parramatta, NSW 2124, Australia e-mail: [email protected] © The Author(s) 2016 B. Maheshwari et al. (eds.), Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities, Water Science and Technology Library 72, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28112-4_12
185
186
Y. Gil et al.
Fig. 12.1 Location of Western Sydney Parkland area (Source: Western Sydney Parklands Trust 2010)
The Parklands is a 27 km long public open space corridor of approximately 5200 ha. The land is administered and managed by the Western Sydney Parklands Trust (Trust) under the Western Sydney Parkland Act 2006. The Act identifies the Trust’s principal function to develop a multi-use urban parkland and includes environmental conservation; heritage; regional recreational, entertainment and tourism; regional infrastructure for services such as water, gas and electricity; and ‘to maintain the rural character of parts of the Parklands by allowing sustainable agriculture,
12
Implementing the Urban Farming Master Plan in Horsley Park, Western Sydney…
187
Fig. 12.2 Horsley Park precinct Master Plan in Western Sydney Parkland area
Data Loading...
