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Bathurst streets as shared spaces pilot project
Bathurst 7 Oct 2020

MEDIA RELEASE 7 October 2020

Bathurst Regional Council was successful in attracting a grant of $767,884 under the NSW Government’s Streets as Shared Spaces program for the Bathurst Streets as Shared Spaces Pilot project.

Mayor Bobby Bourke said the grant was one of the largest offered under the program.

“The program provides one-off grant funding to support local councils to test and pilot new and innovative ideas for streets as safe, shared public spaces,” he said.

“The funding provides quick-response demonstration projects and strategic pilots that temporarily adapt streets to support healthier, safer, and more resilient communities. From Council’s perspective, we also want this project to encourage people back into the CBD and patronising local businesses.”

Key objectives of the program are to build on the local character, increase space for safe walking, improve access on foot to key destinations, and to activate streets to create better public spaces.

The Bathurst Streets as Shared Spaces Pilot project is proposed for the south east corner of the Bathurst town square block to encompass:

William Street (between Howick and Russell Streets) Church Street Ribbon Gang Lane

Within this precinct the project will introduce temporary and reversable improvements that will:

improve and enhance pedestrian safety and comfort enhance King’s Parade as a venue where Bathurst celebrates and commemorates test how a CBD street block might be cooled and beautified through new temporary street trees in planter boxes.

The aim is to complete the improvements ready for the next year’s Winter Festival. More information will be available on the Bathurst Yoursay website as Council commences engagement with the community, particularly with businesses and property owners in the project area.

ENDS

Media contact: Media Release

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