Hercules Street, Ashfield
Event Management Plan
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Project details
What is the Permit/Plug/Play Pilot Program about?
Council has received $500, 000 under the Vibrant Streets Package – Permit/Plug/Play Pilot Program, to identify event-ready streets and deliver long-term cost reductions by streamlining approval processes for temporary road closures. The Program is a part of the NSW Government’s Vibrant Streets Package, a $19.7 million investment that will help transform our streets into more vibrant public spaces, with creative and cultural activations in the short term and the trial of place management strategies to support sustainable activation in the long term.
The Program also supports permanent street upgrades like on-site power and safety barriers to make it faster, easier, and cheaper for councils and event organisers to hold pop-up events such as markets and street parties on local streets in urban centres. These events can be both Council and community managed events.
The Program builds on the success of existing Transport programs that support activating our streets and transport hub precincts. Process improvements, enabling place infrastructure and street activations under the Program will be delivered by November 2025.
What is Council proposing?
Council proposes to approve regular and recurring events at the following locations:
- Railway Parade, Marrickville
- Illawarra Lane and the Calvert Street carpark in Marrickville
- Hercules Street, Ashfield
for up to 6 times per calendar year, between 2025 and 2029. The events will be permitted only on a Sunday and will involve temporary closure of the street to vehicles between 3:30am and 11:30pm on the day of the planned event.
To support event organisers to activate these sites, Council proposes to also develop a global Activity Application form (s68), traffic management plan and explore upgrades to power and enabling infrastructure like removable bollards that can help reduce the costs for event organisers.
Council has proposed event types and site layouts suitable for these sites. The event management plans for each site are available in the document library below.
View the proposals for each location below.
View the details of each proposal
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Read the Event Management Plans
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Calvert Street carpark, Marrickville
Event Management Plan
Railway Parade, Marrickville
Event Management Plan
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Contact us
Have questions or want to learn more about this project, contact us below:
| Name | Mira Kovacevic |
|---|---|
| Phone | 02 9392 5805 |
| building@innerwest.nsw.gov.au |
How to have your say?
You can provide feedback by:
- Completing the form below
- Emailing to building@innerwest.nsw.gov.au
- Posting to Inner West Council, Po Box 14, Petersham NSW 2049, c/o Mira Kovacevic
- Calling us on 02 9392 5805
Other ways to provide feedback:
- Call a FREE Interpreter or the National Relay Service, Monday to Friday between 9am-4pm and provide our phone number 02 9392 5805
- Free Interpreter call TIS National on 131 450
- Voice relay call 1300 555 727
- TTY call 133 677
- SMS relay call 0423 677 767
Last day to provide feedback is 9 December 2024.
What happens next?
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Open
This consultation is open for contributions.
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Under Review
We are reviewing your feedback.
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What we heard
We will report back to you what you told us.
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Local Traffic Committee (LTC)
The LTC will consider the proposal and make recommendations to Council.
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Council decision
Council will make the final decision on this proposal.
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Events in our streets 2025-2029
The events will be occurring between 2025 and 2029
Every time there is a planned event the community will be notified by the event organisers.
Funding Acknowledgement
Proudly funded by the NSW Government.
We acknowledge that this land area traditionally belonged to the Gadigal and Wangal peoples of the Eora nation.
