The Central City Strategy aims to provide a broad outline to influence the development by both the City Council and private interests.

The map above illustrates the broad aims of the strategy and shows the general areas where the Council believes they should be applied. These areas in most cases overlap.

It should be noted that two of these elements — the green streets and public art ideas — still have to be firmed up and translated into specific proposals.

The strategy’s core principles for project development include:

• East side focus — to generally focus on projects to the east of Colombo Street
• Residential and business development opportunities — including funding for project assistance and joint-venture developments to increase the residential population and business/commercial activity
• Improve public spaces — to enhance the amenity of the central city
• Integrated development — to pursue publicprivate partnerships, and integrated and complementary development of public and private spaces
• Sustainability — to assess and prioritise projects according to social, environmental and economic sustainability evaluation criteria