Gateway 2 is another important entry point to Ramsay Place from the north, accommodating extensive car parking areas.

Presently, the entry point opens out to a large vacant, hard surfaced area with deteriorating infrastructure. The upgrade is seeking to transform the entry point into a more social and welcoming entrance.

To see what we're proposing for gateway 2, click on the different hotspots on the map below.

  • Road interface

    ISSUES

    • Entrance is unwelcoming and poorly defined
    • Adjacent small car park separates this entrance from the main car park
    • Wayfinding is poor


    STRENGTHS AND OPPORTUNITIES

    • Large empty garden beds can be planted out with trees and amenity planting
    • Opportunity for new wayfinding and visual links to Hopgood Theatre

  • Interior

    ISSUES

    • Highly exposed with mass of hardscape
    • Hot in summer, cold in winter
    • Lack of comfortable and useable spill out space for the library and TAFE
    • Lack of wayfinding
    • Dull and tired


    STRENGTHS AND OPPORTUNITIES

    • Utlise existing arbour structure
    • Ample space for new playful interventions, trees, seating and wayfinding
    • Build links to library and TAFE

  • Entrance

    ISSUES

    • Dull and lacks warmth or softness
    • Mass of red brick hardscape
    • Lack of wayfinding
    • Empty garden beds


    STRENGTHS AND OPPORTUNITIES

    • Remove fence to open up the space
    • Introduce new trees and planting in the existing garden bed celebrating the distinct vegetation character which exists throughout the precinct
    • New signature wayfinding opportunities

  • Ramsay Place interface

    ISSUES

    • Improved wayfinding needed, particularly linkages to Hopgood Theatre
    • Brick overload


    STRENGTHS AND OPPORTUNITIES

    • Paint existing brick walls and hand rails for low budget high impact wayfinding