Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Albion Park Rail Bypass) Order 2017 (NSW)

New South Wales

Environmental Planning and Assessment

Amendment (Albion Park Rail Bypass) Order
2017

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

I, the Minister for Planning, in pursuance of section 115U (4) of the Environmental Planning and
Assessment Act 1979, make the following Order.

Dated, this 19 day of September 2017.

ANTHONY ROBERTS, MP

Minister for Planning

Explanatory note
The object of this Order is to declare development for the purposes of Albion Park Rail Bypass (being a
9.8 kilometre extension of the M1 Princes Motorway bypassing Albion Park Rail town centre between

Yallah and Oak Flats including the new motorway extension and any resulting works required to be carried out with respect to the Croom Regional Sporting Complex at Albion Park) to be State significant infrastructure.

This Order is made under section 115U (4) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Albion

Park Rail Bypass) Order 2017

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Albion Park
Rail Bypass) Order 2017.

2      Commencement

This Order commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3      Maps

The maps adopted by State Environmental Planning Policy (State and Regional
Development) 2011 are amended or replaced, as the case requires, by the maps
approved by the Minister on the making of this Order.

Schedule 1 Amendment of State Environmental Planning
Policy (State and Regional Development) 2011

Schedule 4 State significant infrastructure—specified development on specified land

Insert after clause 3:

4 Albion Park Rail Bypass

(1)	The Albion Park Rail Bypass project is an extension of the M1 Princes Motorway that stretches for approximately 9.8 kilometres between Yallah and Oak Flats bypassing Albion Park Rail town centre.
(2)	Development for the purposes of the Albion Park Rail Bypass on land identified as being within the Albion Park Rail Bypass corridor on the State Significant Infrastructure Sites Map, including:

(a)

the construction of a new multi lane road, and

(b)

any works required to be carried out with respect to the Croom Regional Sporting Complex as a result of the new road, including relocating or replacing sporting and other facilities.

(3)

In this clause:

Croom Regional Sporting Complex means the sporting complex and

associated facilities on land at Albion Park (being Lot 1, DP 216772, Lot 3, DP 549511, Lot 1, DP 821478, Lot 2, DP 605565, Lot 2, DP 219411 and Lot 57, DP 263741).

development does not include:

(a)	surveys, test drilling, test excavations, geotechnical investigations or other tests, surveys, sampling or investigation for the purposes of the design or assessment of the project, or
(b)	adjustments to, or relocation of, existing utilities infrastructure and installation of new utilities infrastructure.