The Sports and Civic Precinct is located to the west of the Urban Centre and to the south of the Stadia Precinct. The precinct is bounded by Dawn Fraser Avenue, Olympic Boulevard, Shirley Strickland Avenue and Edwin Flack Avenue.

The Sports and Civic Precinct is home to world-class competitive sports venues including the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre, Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre, Quaycentre and the Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre. The retention of these world class facilities will be essential for Sydney Olympic Park to continue to host regional, national and international sports events.

A number of these facilities, including the Aquatic Centre, could be expanded, redeveloped and enhanced to meet the needs of the changing community. By 2050, some of these buildings will be beyond their design lives and will offer opportunities for substantial redevelopment. New public facilities, including a multi-purpose recreation/community facility and State or regionally significant cultural centre will support social interaction and community wellbeing.

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a. Promote civic, cultural and sports uses, including high performance sports, to reinforce the role of the precinct as a vibrant community and regional destination.

b. Provide multi-purpose public facilities to meet the sporting, social and civic needs of residents, workers and visitors.

c. Provide an urban structure that prioritises active transport movement through the Sports and Civic Precinct and provides direct and accessible connections to the Urban Centre, public transport and the adjacent neighbourhoods and precincts.

d. Provide a State or regionally significant cultural centre of architectural excellence to act as an iconic landmark for the area and support the cultural enrichment of the people of New South Wales.

e. Provide a school to support the growing population of families within Sydney Olympic Park and to meet the educational needs of the local and surrounding communities.

f. Provide a connected network of parks and sports facilities within the Sports and Civic Precinct to meet the diverse needs of local residents, workers, and visitors.

g. Improve the ecology of the Boundary Creek riparian corridor in conjunction with open space opportunities.

a. Protect view sharing and solar access to public open spaces and sports fields.

b. Provide building setbacks which respond to the character of the street, align with existing development and pedestrian linkages, and allow for the retention of established trees and new trees.

c. Ensure the built form of development reinforces the landscape setting of the precinct.

d. Ensure the scale of new development does not dominate the Aquatic Centre, Athletics Centre or Quay Centre.

a. Provide a range of public open spaces within the Sports and Civic Precinct to meet the diverse needs of residents, workers and visitors.

b. Identify the optimal location of new public open spaces having regard to the surrounding land uses, access and movement, built form and environmental amenity, including sunlight access.

c. The design of new open public spaces is to maximise functionality and amenity for the intended users.

a. Provide east-west connections through the Sports and Civic Precinct from Edwin Flack Avenue to Olympic Boulevard.

b. Create a community focus within the Sports and Civic Precinct by prioritising walking and cycling to provide direct connections to public open spaces, sport facilities, public facilities, the school, public transport and the Urban Centre.

c. Transform the central section of Olympic Boulevard into a green active transport corridor with flexible spaces for community activation and recreation, enhanced pedestrian promenades with increased tree canopy.

d. Maintain the southern section as a connector street with increased active transport.

e. Prioritise active and public transport movement to support activation of Dawn Fraser Avenue.