Wagga Wagga Special Activation Precinct
The Department of Planning, Industry and Environment is in the midst of master planning for the Wagga Wagga Special Activation Precinct.
As NSW’s Southern gateway supporting Australia’s richest food and agricultural region, the Wagga Wagga Special Activation Precinct will be a sustainable hub of high value production and manufacturing supporting advanced industries and businesses which are connected to the world.
Fanning out from the Bomen industrial park, the Special Activation Precinct will capitalise on the Riverina Intermodal Freight and Logistics hub which will offer improved access to the new inland rail line.
The draft master plan will show the area of the Special Activation Precinct, the applicable land uses, as well as how businesses can fast-track planning approvals so it becomes easier and quicker for them to expand their operations and for new businesses to establish.
The draft master plan for the Wagga Wagga Special Activation Precinct is due to go on public exhibition early in 2020.
On Thursday 12th December Mick Quirk (Chair), Alan Johnston, several of our Board Members and members attended an update seminar presented by RGNSWDC (our newest C4W member) & WWCC on the status, progress and next steps for the Special Activation Precinct (see separate story).
Of particular interest was the insight provided by Lachlan Ceeney, Manager NSW South & ACT for nbn on the proposed upgrade to internet services for the Bomen Industrial Park / SAP Precinct. Our members and other businesses at Bomen currently operate under significant duress & additional cost due to the inadequate connectivity currently in place in the precinct. We look forward to this upgrade, which is a significant step jump from current services, becoming reality by the end of Quarter 2, 2020.
Committee for Wagga also looks forward in anticipation to Wagga Wagga benefiting from the outcomes from the NSW Governments Digital Scoping Study of which Wagga Wagga is one of the two pilot cities. Early adoption of this infrastructure should see the broader city well placed to take advantage of significantly higher levels of digital connectivity as well as provide further impetus to the development of a Smart City Strategy and the resultant adoption of technology based solutions to various challenges the city currently experiences.
Committee for Wagga believes that 2020 will see the evolution of much planning work done to date by NSW and local government transform into visible infrastructure construction to resolve long term ‘pain points’ and set the platform for future growth throughout the city.
