Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Sydney Metro City and Southwest Project) Order 2015 (NSW)

New South Wales

Environmental Planning and Assessment

Amendment (Sydney Metro City and

Southwest Project) Order 2015

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

I, the Minister for Planning, in pursuance of sections 115U (4) and 115V of the Environmental

Planning and Assessment Act 1979, make the following Order.

Dated, this 10th day of December 2015.

ROBERT STOKES, MP

Minister for Planning

Explanatory note
Sydney Metro City and Southwest is a proposed metro railway system of approximately 30 kilometres from Chatswood, through the lower north shore and the central business district of Sydney, to Sydenham and west to Bankstown, including a new crossing beneath Sydney Harbour.
The object of this Order is to declare development for the purposes of Sydney Metro City and Southwest to
be State significant infrastructure and critical State significant infrastructure.
This Order is made under sections 115U (4) and 115V of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act
1979.
Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Sydney Metro City and Southwest Project) Order

2015 [NSW]

Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Sydney

Metro City and Southwest Project) Order 2015

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Sydney
Metro City and Southwest Project) Order 2015.

2      Commencement

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

3 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 Metro City and Southwest

(1)

Development for the purposes of Sydney Metro City and Southwest being the construction and operation of new passenger rail infrastructure and the modification of existing rail infrastructure on land in the suburbs referred to in subclause (2), being approximately from Chatswood, through the lower north shore and the central business district of Sydney, to Sydenham and west to Bankstown, including:

(a)	the construction of stations in connection with that rail infrastructure, and the modification of existing stations, and
(b)	the construction of a tunnel under Sydney Harbour, and
(c)	links with the existing rail network at Chatswood, and
(d)	associated ancillary infrastructure and works.

(2) The development includes work in the suburbs of Chatswood, Artarmon, Lane Cove North, Naremburn, St Leonards, Crows Nest, North Sydney, McMahons Point, Barangaroo, Millers Point, Sydney, Haymarket, Surry Hills, Chippendale, Camperdown, Darlington, Redfern, Waterloo, Alexandria, Eveleigh, Erskineville, Newtown, St Peters, Marrickville, Sydenham, Tempe, Dulwich Hill, Hurlstone Park, Canterbury, Campsie, Belmore, Lakemba, Wiley Park, Punchbowl and Bankstown.

(3) The development does not include surveys, test drilling, test excavations, geotechnical investigations, contamination investigations or other tests, surveys, sampling or works for the purposes of the design or assessment of Sydney Metro City and Southwest.