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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

Read the Event Management Plans

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Key dates

Contact us

Have questions or want to learn more about this project, contact us below:

Name Mira Kovacevic
Phone 02 9392 5805
Email 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.


To complete the submissions form please create an account to join, or login to an existing account. The Your Say Inner West account is separate from other Council accounts.

What happens next?

  • Timeline item 1 - active

    Open

    This consultation is open for contributions.

  • Timeline item 2 - incomplete

    Under Review

    We are reviewing your feedback.

  • Timeline item 3 - incomplete

    What we heard

    We will report back to you what you told us.

  • Timeline item 4 - incomplete

    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.

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