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Chippendale is a small inner-city suburb of
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,
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, Australia on the southern edge of the
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, in the
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of the
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. Chippendale is located between Broadway to the north and Cleveland Street to the south, Central railway station to the east and the
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to the west.


History

The area was first occupied by the Gadigal people of the Dharug Nation. William Chippendale was granted a estate in 1819. It stretched to the present day site of Redfern railway station. Chippendale sold the estate to Solomon Levey, emancipist and merchant, in 1821, for 380 pounds. Solomon Levey died while in
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in 1833. Levey's heirs sold over to William Hutchinson. Chippendale has a number of heritage-listed sites, including the Regent Street railway station or 'Mortuary Station', located on the eastern side of the suburb. The John Storey Memorial Dispensary was built in 1926 as a memorial to John Storey, a former Premier of New South Wales. It is located on Regent Street and still functions as a pathology and methadone clinic.


Commercial area

The eastern side of Chippendale, being adjacent to the CBD, has a greater mix use than other parts of the suburb. It includes smaller offices and warehouses as well as cafes and pubs.
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has its headquarters here. The western side of Chippendale is mainly residential with businesses interspersed in some parts of the precinct.


Central Park, Sydney

The 168-year-old Carlton & United brewery closed in December 2006. Frasers Property purchased the brewery site from the
Foster's Group Foster's Group Pty. Ltd. was an Australian beer group with interests in brewing and soft drinks, known for Foster's Lager, now called Carlton & United Breweries since the company was renamed in 2011. Foster's was founded in 1888 in Melbourne, ...
in 2007 and lodged a plan for a major renewal project of the site. The development proposal "
Central Park Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, and the first landscaped park in the United States. It is the List of parks in New York City, sixth-largest park in the ...
" included approximately 255,000 m2 of commercial and residential space, retention of a number of heritage buildings and the development of a large new park called Chippendale Green.
One Central Park One Central Park is a mixed-use development, mixed-use dual skyscraper located in the Sydney suburb of Chippendale, New South Wales, Chippendale in New South Wales, Australia. Developed as a joint venture between Frasers Property and Sekisui Hou ...
is a large mixed-use residential and commercial building on the site. Balfour Street Park, at the corner of Balfour and O'Connor Streets, acts as a pedestrian gateway to Central Park. Chippendale has the lowest open space per person of any Sydney suburb (City of Sydney open space study, 2006). The addition of Chippendale Green has provided much needed green space; however, given the corresponding population increase from new developments, Chippendale now has less than 1 square metre of green space per resident.


Urban heat island problem

Chippendale is currently a suburb under study, examining the problems of the
urban heat island Urban areas usually experience the urban heat island (UHI) effect; that is, they are significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas. The temperature difference is usually larger at night than during the day, and is most apparent when winds ar ...
effect. The bitumen-surfaced roads surrounding infrastructures are reportedly driving temperatures higher than normal. The road network, which constitute over 23 percent of the suburb's land area, measured over on average.


Schools

The
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sits along the northern border with campus buildings scattered through the suburb. The
University of Technology, Sydney The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is a public research university located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The university was founded in its current form in 1988, though its origins as a technical institution can be traced back t ...
and the
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have campuses nearby. The Sydney campus of
Curtin University Curtin University (previously Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology) is an Australian public university, public research university based in Bentley, Western Australia, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. ...
is located at the eastern edge of Chippendale on Regent Street. The
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Sydney Campus is located on Regent Street in Chippendale.


Culture

Chippendale has become known as one of the key creative art districts of Sydney with more than a dozen galleries in the small neighbourhood (including White Rabbit Gallery, MOP Projects, and Pine Street Creative Arts Centre). Various creative events in the suburb also take place each year such as the Beams Festival. Artist residencies were offered with the cooperation of Frasers during the construction of Central Park and Chippendale houses a lively creative community.


Population


Demographics

The demographics of Chippendale changed significantly since the development of Central Park. At the 2021 census there were 7,803 people living in Chippendale. 30.0% of people were born in Australia. The most common other countries of birth were China 19.6%, Indonesia 5.6%, Thailand 3.0%, Hong Kong 2.5% and Malaysia 2.4%. 39.0% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 22.0%, Cantonese 4.7%, Indonesian 4.3%, Thai 2.7% and Spanish 2.1%. The most common religious affiliation was " No Religion" 55.1%, followed by Catholic 10.2%, Not stated 10.2%, Buddhism 9.1% and Hinduism 2.3%. At the there were 8,617 residents in Chippendale. In contrast, at the , there were 4,057 residents; 38.3% were born in Australia and 50.1% only spoke English at home. The 2016 census continued to show that the majority of people in Chippendale were attending an educational institution (58.2%). Of these, 67.3% were in a tertiary or technical institution.


Notable residents

* William Chippendale, Sydney land owner and farmer whose surname the suburb's name is derived from *
David Malouf David George Joseph Malouf (; born 20 March 1934) is an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and Libretto, librettist. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008, Malouf has lectured at both the University ...
, writer * Michael Mobbs, author of ''Sustainable House''


Gallery

File:Chippendale 1.JPG, Chippen Street apartments File:Chippendale 2.JPG, Meagher Street flats and gallery File:Chippendale 3.JPG, Former Shannon Hotel File:Chippendale UTS Blackfriars Campus.JPG, UTS Blackfriars Campus File:Mortuary Station Garden.JPG, Mortuary Station File:Sydney Central Park.jpg, One Central Park File:The Old Clare Hotel, Chippendale.jpg, The Old Clare Hotel File:Chippendale University of Notre Dame.JPG, University of Notre Dame


References


Further reading

* Shirley Fitzgerald. ''CHIPPENDALE - Beneath The Factory Wall''. Published by Halstead Press, Australia. 2008. ().


External links

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