Lachlan's Line

Our vision was to create a vibrant residential neighbourhood centred around a mixed use precinct. Surrounded by high quality apartment buildings, the focal point is a leafy town square with restaurants, a supermarket and community centre.

Pathways and cycle tracks, a variety of public open spaces and a community garden support connection and a healthy, active lifestyle at Lachlan’s Line. The retail square, public artworks and the unforgettable blue pedestrian and cycle bridge all encourage community interaction and connection.

Supporting diversity, Lachlan’s Line is to include affordable long-term rental housing to provide homes to very low to moderate income earners.

We applied a precinct-wide approach to stormwater management to reduce stormwater discharge, improve water quality and minimise water consumption. An irrigation tank under Central Park collects and re-uses water from precinct stormwater.

We created extensive parklands, retained remnant bushland, revitalised a creek line and rehabilitated more than 4,300m2 of previously contaminated land in the Porters Creek catchment. We supported the Friends of Lane Cove National Park to regenerate bush in the Lane Cove River catchment.

Lachlan’s Line is a place where people are encouraged to walk, cycle and use public transport rather than cars to reduce carbon pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

Lachlan’s Line was named after Governor Lachlan Macquarie.

Public artworks make each space in the development unique. For the bushland reserve, Ochre Lawson sculpted Wild Things, three cast bronze sculptures of a powerful owl, ringtail possums and micro bats. For Central Park we commissioned a striking 20m tall sculpture Spire, one of the final works of the late sculptor Mathew Harding.

The most dramatic public artwork and destination marker is the award-winning blue bridge, which has DNA-like double helix of blue metal looping around a pedestrian and cycling path.