Project Name          Maitland Centres Strategy
Prepared For           Maitland City Council
Job Date                  February 2009

Hill PDA was commissioned by Maitland City Council to prepare a strategy for centres and employment generating lands within the Maitland LGA. The strategy provided strategic direction for existing and future planned commercial and employment land uses. The strategy will also assist in the review of the Maitland Urban Settlement Strategy and guide the preparation of the Maitland Local Environmental Plan 2011.

The key tasks involved in the preparation of the Strategy included the following:

• analysis of employment and retail trends and issues;
• survey of centres and employment zones to define their key characteristics, opportunities and constraints;
• definition of centres hierarchy;
• review of relationships between centres;
• stakeholder consultation;
• demand analysis and forecasting; and
• identification of strategies and development guidelines to strengthen and concentrate activities within individual centres.

The strategy focused on a range of areas including commercial, industrial, business parks and bulky good centres. These centres and employment lands within the LGA are generally designated within the following zones: Zone 3(a) General Business, 3(b) Support Business, 3(c) Special Business, 4(a) General Industrial and 4(b) Light Industrial.