Pyrmont Peninsula Place Strategy

The Department of Planning, Industry and Environment engaged GML to explore the non-Indigenous cultural heritage of the area and contribute to the Pyrmont Place Strategy that will guide design outcomes for the precinct.

We developed a thematic history, heritage assessment and determined the archaeological potential of the area. This research contributed to a number of considered heritage recommendations, to inform future masterplanning principles of the Pyrmont Peninsula.

The Pyrmont place strategy presented particular challenges for characterising archaeological potential. It is a highly urban environment that has undergone radical change over the last 200 years.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) was central to charting the process of historic change and for relating it to the modern landscape. We employed a number of approaches that were managed through our GIS project. For example, a Lidar-derived Digital Elevation Model was generated to visualise the current topography of the modern peninsula and to highlight areas of historic quarrying and land reclamation.

Output included thematic cartography illustrating major phases of historic settlement on the peninsula supported by 3D renderings of historic maps in relation to the modern topography.