Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (WestConnex) Order 2015 (NSW)

New South Wales

Environmental Planning and Assessment

Amendment (WestConnex) 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 20th day of November 2015.

ROBERT STOKES, MP

Minister for Planning

Explanatory note
The object of this Order is to declare development for the purposes of the New M5 project, being a new multi-lane road link between the M5 East Motorway (east of King Georges Road) and St Peters, including new twin multi-lane tunnels approximately between Kingsgrove and St Peters, the widening of the M5 East Motorway between King Georges Road and the proposed tunnels and an interchange at St Peters together with associated works to upgrade local roads, 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

(WestConnex) Order 2015

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment
(WestConnex) Order 2015.

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

[1]      Schedule 5 Critical State significant infrastructure

Insert after clause 4 (4):

(5)

New M5 project

Development for the purposes of the New M5 project:

(a)	being a new multi-lane road link between the M5 East Motorway (east of King Georges Road) and St Peters (including new twin multi-lane tunnels approximately between Kingsgrove and St Peters, the widening of the M5 East Motorway between King Georges Road and the proposed tunnels and an interchange at St Peters together with associated works to upgrade local roads), and
(b)	to be carried out on land in Beverly Hills, Kingsgrove, Bexley North, Earlwood, Bardwell Park, Bardwell Valley, Arncliffe, Wolli Creek, Tempe, Sydenham, St Peters, Alexandria and Mascot.

[2]      Schedule 5, existing clause 4

Renumber existing subclauses (5) and (6) as subclauses (6) and (7), respectively.