3. Village Centre

Every community has a community hub. The civic and ceremonial spaces where communities come together to celebrate, conduct civic business and participate in key official functions, forums on important issues and gatherings. The forecourt area outside of the Manly Council Chambers (towards Whistler street) will be complimented by the rejuvenation of what is known as the ‘Triangle Site’ or ‘Central Manly’. 

MANLY2015 proposes that the old Whistler Street Car Park will be demolished. This will allow the redevelopment of a new larger, state of the art Library and multipurpose community space. Commercial components within the development are also incorporated to assist in activating the current street frontages along southern Whistler Street, servicing locals and visitors alike. Council has two options for redeveloping the Library. Option One involves adding to and upgrading the existing Library building. Option two involves creating a completely new building on the Current Library building space. Council is in particular seeking feedback on each of the library and community space options.

 

Existing View                               Option 1:                                          Option 2:     

The current view of Market Place incorporating the existing library       Option 1: An artist’s impression of the new Village Centre in Market Place incorporating the existing library           Option 2: An artist’s impression of the new Village Centre in Market Place replacing the existing library with a new purposely designed building

Left: the current view of Market Place incorporating the existing library. Middle: Village Centre Option 1: An artist’s impression of the new Village Centre in Market Place incorporating the existing library. Right: Village Centre Option 2: An artist’s impression of the new Village Centre in Market Place replacing the existing library with a new purpose built facility.

Whistler Street:

An artist's impression of how the Whistler street area will look after Manly2015 - a view looking down market lane from Whistler Street          An artist's impression of how the Whistler street area will look after Manly2015 - a view looking down market lane from Whistler Street

An artist's impression of how the Whistler street area will look after MANLY2015 - Left: a view looking north along Whister Street towards Sydney Rd, with Market lane off to the right. Right: A view from Whistler street looking east down market lane towards the library. (The brown building on the right is where Whistler Street carpark is currently located)

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