Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Westconnex) Order 2014 (NSW)

New South Wales

Environmental Planning and Assessment

Amendment (WestConnex) Order 2014

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 2nd day of December 2014.

PRU GOWARD, MP Minister for Planning

Explanatory note

WestConnex is a proposed program of works for approximately 33 kilometres of multi-lane roads linking to be State significant infrastructure and critical State significant infrastructure:

the M4 Western Motorway and the M5 South West Motorway.

(a)	the M4 widening project (the upgrading and widening of the M4 Western Motorway between Pitt Street at Merrylands, Holroyd, Parramatta and Granville and Homebush Bay Drive at Homebush),
(b)	the M4 East project (the upgrading, widening and extension of the M4 Western Motorway between Homebush Bay Drive at Homebush West and Haberfield),
(c)	the King Georges Road interchange upgrade project (the upgrading, widening and extension of the interchange at King Georges Road between the M5 South West Motorway and the M5 East Motorway).

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

(WestConnex) Order 2014

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment
(WestConnex) Order 2014.

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 3:

4      WestConnex

(1)	WestConnex is a proposed program of works for approximately 33 kilometres of multi-lane roads linking the M4 Western Motorway and the M5 South West Motorway. The object of this clause is to declare the development set out in this clause (being development that forms part of WestConnex) to be State significant infrastructure and critical State significant infrastructure.
(2)	M4 widening project

Development for the purposes of the M4 widening project:

(a)

being the upgrading and widening of the M4 Western Motorway between Pitt Street at Merrylands, Holroyd, Parramatta and Granville and Homebush Bay Drive at Homebush, and

(b)

to be carried out on land in Merrylands, Holroyd, Parramatta, Granville, Harris Park, Rosehill, Clyde, Auburn, Silverwater, Lidcombe, Newington, Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush West and Homebush.

(3)

M4 East project

Development for the purposes of the M4 East project:

(a)	being the upgrading, widening and extension of the M4 Western Motorway between Homebush Bay Drive at Homebush West and Haberfield (including a new multi-lane road via tunnels approximately between Homebush and Haberfield), and
(b)	to be carried out on land in Homebush West, Homebush, North Strathfield, Strathfield, Concord, Burwood, Canada Bay, Croydon, Five Dock, Ashfield and Haberfield.

(4)

King Georges Road interchange upgrade project

Development for the purposes of the King Georges Road interchange upgrade project:

(a)	being the upgrading, widening and extension of the interchange at King Georges Road between the M5 South West Motorway and the M5 East Motorway, and
(b)	to be carried out on land in Narwee, Roselands and Beverley Hills.

(5)

Ancillary development

Development that is ancillary to any other development in this clause, including construction compounds, utilities infrastructure (including adjustments to, or relocation of, existing utilities infrastructure), electronic tolling facilities, signage, ventilation systems, emergency systems, systems for the control and management of roads, and tunnel control centre facilities.

(6)

In this clause:
development does not include the following:

(a)	surveys, test drilling, test excavations, geotechnical investigations or other tests, surveys, sampling or investigation for the purposes of the design or assessment of a project,
(b)	in the case of the M4 East project—any of the following undertaken prior to the commencement of the construction of the new multi-lane road:

(i)      adjustments to, or relocation of, existing utilities infrastructure and installation of new utilities infrastructure,

(ii)      the establishment of construction compounds including the erection of temporary buildings and the provision of associated facilities including access roads and car parks.

tunnel control centre facility means premises used for the purposes of a tunnel
control centre together with any associated facilities, including car parks.