Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (M12 Motorway) Order 2019 (NSW)

New South Wales

Environmental Planning and Assessment

Amendment (M12 Motorway) Order 2019

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

I, the Minister for Planning and Public Spaces, in pursuance of sections 5.12 (4) and 5.13 of the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, make the following Order.

Dated, this 9th day of September 2019.

ROBERT STOKES, MP

Minister for Planning and Public Spaces

Explanatory note

The object of this Order is to declare certain development for the purposes of the M12 Motorway to be State significant infrastructure and critical State significant infrastructure. The relevant development is for the purposes of a new multi-lane road connecting the M7 Motorway at Cecil Hills with The Northern Road at Luddenham, and associated works.

This Order is made under sections 5.12 (4) and 5.13 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act

1979.

Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (M12 Motorway) Order 2019 [NSW]

Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (M12

Motorway) Order 2019

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (M12

Motorway) Order 2019.

2      Commencement

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

Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (M12 Motorway) Order 2019 [NSW]

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

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

Schedule 5 Critical State significant infrastructure

Insert at the end of the Schedule, with appropriate clause numbering—

M12 Motorway

(1)	Development for the purposes of the M12 Motorway, being—
(a) a multi-lane road link from the M7 Motorway at Cecil Hills extending for approximately 16 kilometres to The Northern Road at Luddenham, including intersections with existing roads (including The Northern Road) and the following interchanges—

(i)      an interchange with the M7 Motorway extending approximately 4 kilometres within the existing M7 Motorway Corridor (the M7

interchange),

(ii)      an interchange with the proposed Western Sydney International Airport, and

(b)

electronic tolling facilities at the M7 interchange, and

(c)

the construction of new bridges across—

(i)	creeks (being Ropes Creek, Kemps Creek, South Creek, Badgerys Creek and Cosgrove Creek), and
(ii)	roads (being Clifton Avenue, Elizabeth Drive, Range Road, Luddenham Road, Wallgrove Road, Villiers Road and the M7 and M12 motorways), and

(iii) part of the Western Sydney Parklands, and

(d)

ancillary development, including (but not limited to) access roads, construction compounds, gantries, motorway control centre facilities, pedestrian and cycling facilities, pedestrian bridges, road modification works, signage, systems for the control and management of roads, treatment plants and utilities infrastructure (including adjustments to, or relocation of, existing utilities infrastructure).

(2)

The development is to be carried out in the suburbs of Mount Vernon, Kemps Creek, Badgerys Creek, Luddenham, Cecil Hills, Cecil Park, Abbotsbury and Horsley Park.

(3)

The development does not include surveys, test drilling, test excavations, geotechnical or contamination investigations or other tests, utility location identification or surveys, sampling or investigation for the purposes of the design or assessment of the project.