Highlights of the Plan

Picton – where a beautiful township continues to flourish within a living garden; 

where a resilient, connected community acknowledges and expresses a proud history of its first people, exploration and architecture; 

where an inspiring future springs from the best of what was, what is – and what’s to come.

Principle 1: Better Connections

Goals:

• Connecting green spaces to form a linked garden
• Cars on the edge – people at the heart
• A well connected accessible town centre
• Connecting the town centre and the station
• A town connected to its past and adding new layers for its future
• Connecting people and businesses digitally

Principle 2: Living Garden

Goals:

• Establish Picton Parklands as the green heart of the town
• Enhance and expand active and passive open space’
• Establish Picton as an open space destination
• Create places for play and places for respite and escape
• Establish distinct gateways into Picton that delineate the town from rural curtilage
• Create a healthier Picton

Principle 3: Resilience

Goals:

• Develop a resilient Picton
• Acknowledge the constraints of the town and embrace them – convert to opportunities
• Plan for the future
• Establish a visual identity for the Picton
• Maintain a visual connection between the town, the natural environment and key heritage items
• Maintain a fine grain

Principle 4: A Web of Things to Do

Goals:

• Ensure art and cultural is ‘visible’ in the public domain
• Develop a network of anchors and destinations to create a functional town centre
• Provide a safe and welcoming public domain
• Establish a digitally connected landscape
• Develop and nurture a visitor economy

• Precinct A – The Town Centre
• Precinct B – Picton Parklands North
• Precinct C – Picton Parklands South
• Precinct D – Menangle Street Gateway
• Precinct E – The Knoll

Implementation is undertaken through the process of Place Evolution, with Seeding Projects (short term), Establishing Projects (medium term), and Mature Projects (longer term).   Approaches include:

• Public Domain Approach
• Open Space Approach
• Activation Approach
• Interpretive and Wayfinding Approach
• Local Environment Plan (LEP) and Development Control Plan (DCP) Approach
• Identity Projects Approach
• Digital Approach
• Enabling Environment Approach

A variety of options for potential projects and actions are identified under each of these approaches.