Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Parramatta Light Rail) Order 2018 (NSW)

New South Wales

Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Parramatta Light Rail) Order 2018

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

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

Planning and Assessment Act 1979, make the following Order.

Dated, this 11th day of April 2018.

ANTHONY ROBERTS, MP

Minister for Planning

Explanatory note

The object of this Order is to declare certain development for the purposes of the Parramatta Light Rail project to be State significant infrastructure and critical State significant infrastructure. The relevant development is the construction and operation of a new passenger light rail from Westmead to Camellia via Parramatta, the modification of existing rail infrastructure and construction and operation of a new passenger light rail from Camellia to Carlingford 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

(Parramatta Light Rail) Order 2018

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Parramatta
Light Rail) Order 2018.

2      Commencement

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

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

Schedule 5 Critical State significant infrastructure

Insert after clause 7:

8      Parramatta Light Rail

(1)  Development for the purposes of Parramatta Light Rail being:

(a)

the construction and operation of new passenger light rail infrastructure from Westmead to Parramatta and on to Camellia, including:

(i)	light rail tracks and associated works, and
(ii)	light rail stops and facilities, and

(b)

the construction and operation of new passenger light rail infrastructure from Camellia to Carlingford, generally along the existing rail corridor including:

(i)	light rail tracks and associated works, and
(ii)	light rail stops and facilities, and

(iii) stabling and maintenance facilities and an associated rail turnback.

(2)

Development that is ancillary to any other development in this clause
including:

(a)	construction of rail and bus interchange facilities, modification of bus facilities, railway stations, public amenities, pedestrian and cycle facilities and urban design features (including fencing, landscaping, lighting and planting trees), the modification and replacement of substations, utilities, amenities and signage and road and bridge modification works, and
(b)	removal of heavy rail equipment including tracks, sleepers, ballast, posts, signals, trackside equipment, overhead wire structures, wires and other equipment along the former Sandown Line and the Carlingford Line from Carlingford to Parramatta Road Level Crossing at Clyde, and
(c)	removal of the Parramatta Road Level Crossing at Clyde.

(3)

The development includes work in the suburbs of Westmead, North Parramatta, Parramatta, Rosehill, Camellia, Rydalmere, Dundas, Telopea, Carlingford, Granville and Clyde.

(4)

In this clause, 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 Parramatta Light Rail, or
(b)	any remediation work at Lot 3, DP 843591 (known as 4 Grand Avenue, Rosehill) that has already been the subject of a determination under Division 5.1 of the Act.