Work will continue at Barangaroo South to complete the six-hectare headland and waterfront promenade, despite the Barangaroo Development Authority losing a developers contribution battle with Lend Lease.
In a statement, Barangaroo Delivery Authority Chief Executive John Tabart said the Authority is focused on the delivery of Barangaroo South, Headland Park and Central Barangaroo.
“We have achieved several milestones to date and during the next 12 months we will open the Headland Park, waterfront promenade and Lend Lease will open the first commercial building in Barangaroo South,” he said.
The dispute concerned the interpretation of the Barangaroo South Project Development Agreement in response to the methodology for calculating value sharing payments for the first two commercial towers.
The NSW Court of Appeal ruled in favour of Lend Lease in the case
Barangaroo Delivery Authority v Lend Lease (Millers Point) Pty Ltd [2014]. The appeal by the Barangaroo Delivery Authority was dismissed with costs on 21 August, 2014.
A spokesman from the Barangaroo Delivery Authority reiterated to
PWPro that there will be no impact to park land or public works at Barangaroo South, despite speculation in the press.
To date, 80 per cent of the 6,500 sandstone blocks have been placed around the foreshore to create the pre-colonial effect. All of the 400 tonne caissons that were used to create the industrial shoreline have now been removed.
The historic 1905 Pump House has been relocated to the entrance of the park, from Town’s Place and construction has commenced on an 18-metre high roof for the
Cultural Space, which has been designed by architects Johnson Pilton Walker in association with Peter Walker and Partners Landscape Architecture.
Planting of native trees, plants and shrubs has begun and on completion of the park there will be 75,000 plants throughout.
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