Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Sydney Gateway) Order 2020 (NSW)

New South Wales

Environmental Planning and Assessment

Amendment (Sydney Gateway) Order 2020

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 6th day of May 2020.

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 Sydney Gateway to be State significant infrastructure and critical State significant infrastructure. The development is in Tempe, St Peters and Mascot and includes the construction and operation of multi-lane roads around the St Peters Interchange, Sydney Airport Terminals 1, 2 and 3, the Alexandra Canal and the Botany Rail Line, the construction of cycle and pedestrian pathways along the Alexandra Canal and other 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 (Sydney Gateway) Order 2020 [NSW]

Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Sydney

Gateway) Order 2020

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Sydney

Gateway) Order 2020.

2      Commencement

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

Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Sydney Gateway) Order 2020 [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—

*	Sydney Gateway
(1) Development for the purposes of the Sydney Gateway, being the following—

(a)

the construction and operation of the following—

(i)	a multi-lane road between the St Peters Interchange and Sydney Airport Terminal 1, over the Alexandra Canal and Botany Rail Line,
(ii)	a multi-lane road between the St Peters Interchange and Sydney Airport Terminals 2 and 3, over the Alexandra Canal and Botany Rail Line,

(iii)	a multi-lane road between Sydney Airport Terminal 1 and Qantas Drive, over the Alexandra Canal to Sydney Airport Terminals 2 and 3,
(iv)	a single-lane road over the Botany Rail Line,
(v)	a multi-lane road over the Alexandra Canal near Sydney Airport Terminal 1 and Link Road,
(vi)	cycle and pedestrian pathways along the Alexandra Canal between the Tempe Recreation Reserve and the Botany Rail Line,

(b)

the widening and extension of Qantas Drive between the Alexandra Canal and Sydney Airport Terminals 2 and 3,

(c)

the upgrade of the surrounding road network,

(d)

ancillary development, including construction compounds, utilities infrastructure (including adjustments to, or relocation of, existing utilities infrastructure), signage, emergency systems and systems for the control and management of roads.

(2)

The development is to be carried out in the suburbs of Tempe, St Peters and Mascot in the Inner West, Bayside and City of Sydney local government areas.

(3)

The development does not include—

(a)	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, or
(b)	adjustments to, or relocation of, existing utilities infrastructure or installation of new utilities infrastructure undertaken prior to the commencement of the construction of the development specified in subclause (1)(a)–(c).