State Environmental Planning Policy (Infrastructure) Amendment (Sydney Metro West Interim Corridor) 2020 (2020-591) LW 2 October 2020 (NSW)

New South Wales

State Environmental Planning Policy

(Infrastructure) Amendment (Sydney Metro

West Interim Corridor) 2020

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following State environmental planning policy under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

ROBERT STOKES, MP

Minister for Planning and Public Spaces

State Environmental Planning Policy (Infrastructure) Amendment (Sydney Metro West Interim Corridor)

2020 [NSW]

State Environmental Planning Policy (Infrastructure)

Amendment (Sydney Metro West Interim Corridor) 2020

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

1      Name of Policy

This Policy is State Environmental Planning Policy (Infrastructure) Amendment

(Sydney Metro West Interim Corridor) 2020.

2      Commencement

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

3      Maps

The maps adopted by State Environmental Planning Policy (Infrastructure) 2007 are amended or replaced, as the case requires, by the maps approved by the Minister on the making of this Policy.

4      Repeal of Policy

(1)

This Policy is repealed on the day following the day on which this Policy

commences.

(2)

The repeal of this Policy does not, because of the operation of sections 5(6) and 30

of the Interpretation Act 1987, affect an amendment made by this Policy.

State Environmental Planning Policy (Infrastructure) Amendment (Sydney Metro West Interim Corridor)

2020 [NSW]

Schedule 1 Amendment of State Environmental Planning Policy (Infrastructure) 2007

Schedule 1

Amendment of State Environmental Planning

Policy (Infrastructure) 2007

[1]      Clause 44, heading

Omit “in City of Sydney”. Insert instead “and transmission circuits”.

[2]      Clause 44(1)

Omit the subclause. Insert instead—

(1)

This clause applies to a development application, or an application for

modification of a consent, for development that involves the following—

(a) the penetration of ground to a depth of at least 3m below ground level (existing) on land that is within 10m, measured radially, of the centreline of the following electricity supply corridors, or parts of those corridors—

(i)      the part of the Picnic Point to Haymarket corridor, as approved by the Minister on 1 February 2002, that runs between Sydney Park and Haymarket,

(ii)      the Haymarket to Surry Hills corridor, as approved by the Minister on 21 December 2001,

(iii)      the City West Cable Tunnel corridor, as approved by the Minister on 21 February 2007,

(b) the penetration of ground to a depth of at least 0.5m below ground level (existing) on land that is within 15m, measured radially, of the centreline of the Potts Hill to Alexandria underground transmission cable circuit, as approved by the Minister on 14 May 2020.

[3]      Clause 78 Definitions

Omit “or the Interim Rail Link Corridor” from the definition of interim rail corridor in clause 78(1).

Insert instead “, the Interim Rail Link Corridor or the Interim Sydney Metro West

Corridor”.

[4]      Clause 78(1)

Insert in alphabetical order—

Interim Sydney Metro West Corridor means land shown on a rail corridors

map as Sydney Metro West Tunnel.

[5]      Clause 78(1), definition of “rail corridors map”

Insert at the end of paragraph (a)—

(b) State Environmental Planning Policy (Infrastructure) 2007—Interim Rail Corridor—Sydney Metro West.

[6]      Clause 88 Development within or adjacent to interim rail corridor

Insert at the end of clause 88(1)(b)(ii)—

, or

(c) on the land shown as “Sydney Metro West Tunnel” on a rail corridors map and involves the penetration of ground to a depth of at least 2m below ground level (existing).

State Environmental Planning Policy (Infrastructure) Amendment (Sydney Metro West Interim Corridor)

2020 [NSW]

Schedule 1 Amendment of State Environmental Planning Policy (Infrastructure) 2007

[7]      Clause 88(8), definition of “rail authority”

Omit the definition. Insert instead—

rail authority means the following—

(a)	for the Interim Metro Corridor or the Interim Rail Link Corridor— Transport for NSW,
(b)	for the Interim Sydney Metro West Corridor—Sydney Metro