The project commenced in 1993 with a deal brokered by Stephen Goldie, then
Director of Planning at Rockdale City Council, for major landowners (Qantas
Airways and Brenmoss Pty Ltd) to provide funding for council to re-plan a
significantly constrained and undervalued industrial area by undertaking the first
planning charrette in NSW. The Council engaged Devine Erby Mazlin (including
Bob Meyer and Peter Robinson), charrette consultants Paul Murrain, Wendy
Morris and Peter Krstic, and traffic consultant Chris Stapleton, and the North
Arncliffe Charrette was conducted in February 1994. A Local Environmental Study,
incorporating the charrette outcomes, was published in October 1994, and won a
RAPI (now PIA) Award.