Protection of transport corridors in Western Discussion Paper on the proposed State Environmental Planning Policy to protect Western Sydney Corridors

March 2018 2 | Protection of transport corridors in Western Sydney | March 2018 Introduction

Transport for NSW has released four instrument that addresses matters of recommended corridors in Western State or regional environmental planning Sydney for future transport infrastructure significance. to support the growing population of Western Sydney. These include the As required under section 3.30 of the (Stage One), Bells Environmental Planning and Assessment Line of Road-Castlereagh Connection, Act 1979 (the Act), this Discussion North South Rail Line/South West Rail Paper explains the intended effects of Link extension and part of the Western the proposed protection of transport Sydney Freight Line. The population corridors in Western Sydney (referred to growth of Western Sydney combined as the proposed SEPP). with the development of the planned Western at Badgerys About the proposed SEPP Creek, requires the early identification and The proposed SEPP will: protection of land for the delivery of this future transport infrastructure to enable • identify infrastructure corridors to be Western Sydney to be a productive, protected and the land that will be liveable and sustainable city. affected

The process for setting aside land • reserve land within these corridors for for future construction of major infrastructure purposes through the infrastructure, such as motorways rezoning of land, and identify it as a or railway lines, is known as corridor reserved infrastructure corridor protection. Corridor protection provides land so that major infrastructure can be • change the planning controls that delivered when and where it is required apply to land within the corridors, and prevents the future transport being including identifying development that encroached upon by unsuitable land uses. will be permissible within the corridor

Protecting the four corridors, as identified • maintain the structural integrity of by Transport for NSW, from incompatible the land for future infrastructure by land uses is proposed to be achieved requiring additional consideration for through a State Environmental Planning certain excavation works on adjacent Policy (SEPP), an environmental planning land. 3 | Protection of transport corridors in Western Sydney | March 2018

• guide development on land corridor alignments will be finalised by surrounding the corridors. Transport for NSW after consultation has concluded. Identifying and protecting land now for future infrastructure does not mean The protection of these corridors: the land will be acquired immediately. Landowners and residents who live within • enables cost efficient delivery of the reserved infrastructure corridors infrastructure can continue with current uses and • supports effective strategic planning of currently permitted development can new communities continue, subject to development consent and, more than likely, some additional • minimises disruption to future considerations for new development. communities Western Sydney Corridors • prevents urban development from encroaching on the corridor The corridors to be protected under the proposed SEPP are: • assists the viability of the future infrastructure by protecting the land • the Outer Sydney Orbital (Stage One) needed for its delivery. corridor from the at Menangle to Box Hill in the North West About this Discussion Paper Growth Area, which will ultimately provide for a motorway and freight line This Discussion Paper sets out the to connect the Illawarra and Central proposed SEPP which will protect the Coast via Western Sydney corridors so that people (Hawkesbury, The Hills, Blacktown, can provide feedback and comment on Penrith, Liverpool, Camden and the proposed changes to development Wollondilly local government areas) assessments and controls in and adjacent to the corridors. Part A describes the • the North South Rail Line corridor, corridors and provides the rationale which will provide for a passenger train for their protection. Part B explains the line from Macarthur to St Marys and objectives and the intended effect of the the extension of the South West Rail proposed SEPP. Link passenger rail from Leppington to North Bringelly (Blacktown, Penrith, The Discussion Paper also details next Liverpool, Camden and Campbelltown steps and provides a map of the land local government areas) proposed by Transport for NSW to be reserved for future infrastructure. • the – Castlereagh Connection corridor, which will provide Feedback is invited on this discussion for a future motorway connection paper during the exhibition period, by from the M7 Motorway near the North attending a community information West Growth Area to Kurrajong session or by making a submission at Heights (Hawkesbury and Penrith local www.transport.nsw.gov.au/corridors. government areas)

• part of the Western Sydney Freight Line corridor, which will ultimately provide for a freight rail line connecting Port Botany to the future Outer Sydney Orbital via the Southern Sydney Freight Line (Penrith and Fairfield local government areas).

Transport for NSW is consulting with landowners, local communities, councils and stakeholders on the recommended alignment of these corridors in Western Sydney. Details of the recommended corridors are available from www. transport.nsw.gov.au/corridors. The 4 | Protection of transport corridors in Western Sydney | March 2018

Part A Protecting land for future infrastructure

Western Sydney’s future infrastructure needs

Western Sydney will be home to around 1.5 million people by 20361. A Western Western Sydney Airport Parkland City will emerge, offering a Western Sydney Airport’s construction diversity of residential development. is expected to create approximately Both the economic catalyst of the 9,000 direct jobs2. By the time it Western Sydney Airport and a growing reaches its full planned potential, the freight task in NSW are anticipated to Airport will offer more than 60,000 contribute to significant jobs growth in direct jobs by 20633. Western Sydney. For this influx of employment to bring This growth and change requires an as many benefits to as many people efficient and integrated transport and and businesses as possible, early infrastructure network. connections to and from the Airport to other parts of Greater Sydney and to Residential growth regional NSW are essential. Increased freight movements will also see a need Five growth areas – Western Sydney for stronger connections to Port Botany, Airport, North West, South West, industrial areas, and logistic lands at Greater Macarthur and Wilton – are Wetherill Park to support Western identified as land release areas that are Sydney Airport’s operations. forecast to provide more than 227,000 new homes by 2036. NSW Government The NSW Government is planning for is also investigating a potential growth improvements and additions to Greater area from Greater Penrith to Eastern Sydney’s motorway network and the Creek. passenger and freight rail networks to support the Airport’s commercial These growth areas will evolve into operations and to connect workers to vibrant, sustainable and liveable jobs. neighbourhoods that support community well-being and offer high- quality local centres and facilities. The NSW Government is investing in NSW freight task transport networks to connect people The volume of freight movements in from home to work and that move Greater Sydney is expected to double essential goods. over the next 40 years, with regional NSW’s freight task expected to increase by 25 per cent over this same period4.

1 Greater Sydney Commission, 2018, Western City District Plan 2 Commonwealth of , NSW Government, 2017, Discussion Paper: Western Sydney Rail Needs Scoping Study 3 Commonwealth of Australia, NSW Government, 2017, Discussion Paper: Western Sydney Rail Needs Scoping Study 4 Transport for NSW, 2017, NSW Draft Freight and Ports Plan. 5 | Protection of transport corridors in Western Sydney | March 2018

Connectivity between the State’s three Western City District Plan, Central main ports— Port Botany, Port Kembla City District Plan and Future Transport and Port of Newcastle – and to the Strategy 2056 consider these corridors wider freight network will facilitate in the context of growth across Greater quick, safe and cost effective freight Sydney and in regional NSW, particularly movements. in terms of a vision for Greater Sydney as a metropolis of three cities – with Rail freight currently shares the the Western Parkland City a major passenger rail network in much residential, commercial, employment of Greater Sydney; this restricts and lifestyle hub for residents. its operational capacity. Freight networks also face encroachment Further information on the Western from surrounding land uses, such as Sydney corridors is available at residential uses, that are incompatible transport.nsw.gov.au/corridors. with the freight uses. Transport for NSW will monitor demand The NSW Government’s planned created for rail passenger activity and infrastructure investment and road and rail freight to determine when management will work to separate the potential future infrastructure is freight from passenger movements in required. congested corridors, especially near trade gateways such as ports and As land in Western Sydney faces airports. increasing demand from urban development it is essential to act now and protect land for future transport Corridor protection infrastructure from further development. The proposed SEPP will protect land identified by Transport NSW so that The availability of land for infrastructure major infrastructure is in place at the influences if or when infrastructure right time for the people and businesses can be delivered. The cost of acquiring who will live, work and travel in Western land is a considerable component of Sydney in the future. the cost of the infrastructure, and the lack of appropriate land can result in Protecting these corridors aligns with suboptimal corridor alignments5 or the integrated suite of land use and construction solutions that become cost transport planning released in late prohibitive6. 2017. The Greater Sydney Region Plan,

5 Infrastructure Australia, 2017, Corridor Protection 6 Productivity Commission, 2014, Public Infrastructure Inquiry Report 6 | Protection of transport corridors in Western Sydney | March 2018

Early corridor protection avoids assessment. A strategic environmental these issues - giving certainty to the assessment explains the rationale community and landowners, minimising for the recommended corridor and disruption and making best uses of must consider social, economic and public land uses. environmental impacts.

The protection of these infrastructure A detailed environmental impact corridors enables future transport assessment is then required at project network connections from Western delivery stage. Sydney Airport and other key gateways, such as Port Botany. They will connect Transport for NSW has released residential areas and strategic centres the draft strategic environmental such as Liverpool, Campbelltown, assessments for the Western Sydney Penrith and St Marys and will inform corridors and a summary of those draft future planning decisions. Although assessments. These are available from the infrastructure may not be needed www.transport.nsw.gov.au/corridors. for some time, protection will enable strategic land use planning to respond to the future projects and avoid or minimise additional property, environmental and community impacts. Strategic environmental assessments The Planning Guideline for Major Infrastructure Corridors provides guidance on:

• the information needed to support protection of an infrastructure corridor

• the approach to protecting corridors

• the planning tools that can be used to protect corridors

The Guideline is available from: http:// www.planning.nsw.gov.au/Policy- and-Legislation/Infrastructure / Infrastructure-Corridors

The Guideline requires proposals to protect a corridor under the Act to be supported by a strategic environmental Part B About the proposed SEPP

and benefits of infrastructure Purpose development with environmental and land use impacts The proposed SEPP will identify land • maintains appropriate land uses required for the future delivery of major within the reserved infrastructure infrastructure projects in Western corridors Sydney and reserve that land for a public purpose, under clause 26(1)(c) of • manages development within the the Act. The land proposed by Transport vicinity of the corridors so that future for NSW to be reserved by the SEPP delivery of infrastructure is not is identified in Attachment A of this compromised and supportive land Discussion Paper. uses are encouraged, for example, locating freight-related services Once the corridors are finalised by close to future freight infrastructure Transport for NSW and the SEPP is corridors made, land will be rezoned to SP2 Infrastructure – Reserved Infrastructure • introduce measures to mitigate Corridor and new planning controls early the potential impacts of the will apply. This will ensure that new future infrastructure on surrounding development does not inhibit the development delivery of the major infrastructure required in the future. • identifies the land acquisition authority for land in the reserved In doing so, the proposed SEPP will infrastructure corridors. establish a land use planning framework that:

• identifies land for future infrastructure projects, which balances the opportunities 8 | Protection of transport corridors in Western Sydney | March 2018

• the potential additional costs Proposed effects to the delivery of the intended infrastructure due to the proposed Land zoning development. Land within the Western Sydney corridors is to be rezoned to SP2 Prohibited development Infrastructure – Reserved Infrastructure The proposed SEPP will not allow Corridor, as shown in the attachment further subdivision of land within the and available in greater detail online at corridors as this is likely to hinder www.transport.nsw.gov.au/corridors. infrastructure delivery. However, changes to property boundaries such Permissible land uses as minor corrections to boundary alignments, will still be permitted Under the proposed SEPP, currently within and adjacent to the reserved permissible development activity within infrastructure corridors if Transport for the reserved infrastructure corridors NSW confirms that the changes will will continue to be permitted. For not result in any additional landowners example, if the current zoning allows the being affected by the corridor. Proposed construction of single dwellings, this will boundary alignment corrections are to remain permissible after the corridor be referred to Transport for NSW for is rezoned to SP2 Infrastructure – comment. Reserved Infrastructure Corridor. Other uses may also be permitted if they are Under the State Environmental Planning compatible with the surrounding land Policy (Exempt and Complying uses and do not impact on the future Development Codes) 2008, land delivery of the infrastructure. reserved for a public purpose, such as a reserved infrastructure corridor, New development will be subject to a cannot be developed as complying development application to determine: development as it is exempt from the • if the proposal was permissible on General Housing Code, Rural House the land prior to its rezoning, or Code and the Commercial and Industrial (New Buildings and Additions) Code. • if the proposal is consistent with the In this regard, new development on objectives of the adjacent land use land within the corridors will require a zonings. development application. The consent authority must also Excavation within and consider whether the proposed development will compromise, restrict adjacent to the corridors or otherwise prevent the future use of the land for infrastructure. To protect land in reserved infrastructure corridors, the proposed The proposed SEPP will require any SEPP will require the relevant planning development over a capital investment authority to refer to Transport for NSW value of $200,000 per lot to be subject any development that involves the to approval from Transport for NSW penetration of ground to a depth of and the consent authority. In providing two or more metres below the existing a concurrence, Transport for NSW must ground level on land: consider: a. within a reserved infrastructure • the nature of the proposed corridor or development; and b. within 25 metres, measured • the timing of the proposed horizontally, of a reserved development in relation to infrastructure corridor. construction of the transport infrastructure; and Transport for NSW must consider the potential impingement of the proposed development on the potential structural integrity of the future infrastructure. If appropriate, Transport for NSW may Strategic land use planning include conditions for excavation, similar to those in effect through the Strategic planning for land surrounding State Environmental Planning Policy the corridors will intend to consider (Infrastructure) 2007 for rail corridors. the potential future infrastructure and locate compatible land uses to support Surrounding land operations and capitalise on its servicing capacity. For example, industrial land uses uses should be located near future freight rail infrastructure and residential As well as the proposed SEPP, development near future passenger rail additional guidance on appropriate land use surrounding the corridors infrastructure. will be provided, more likely through This will minimise impacts on the a Direction under section 9.1 of the community and retain the viability of the Act. This will make sure that potential corridors for future use. impacts from the future infrastructure are considered when new land uses are being planned adjacent to the corridors Other issues – meaning that future infrastructure integrates with its surrounds. Identification of the land acquisition authority Mitigation of potential future Land within the Western Sydney noise impacts corridors will need to be acquired at some point in the future. When To address potential future noise gazetted, the proposed SEPP will impacts, the assessment of proposals include a land acquisition map that to rezone land surrounding the corridor identifies the land to be acquired. A to a more intense uses such as from low land acquisition authority will also be density residential to medium density residential, must consider the future nominated. transport infrastructure and apply appropriate noise mitigation measures such as acoustic treatments and best practice room layout and building orientation. The Department of Planning and Environment will consult with local councils, the community and relevant stakeholders regarding this requirement as it is developed. 10 | Protection of transport corridors in Western Sydney | March 2018

Compliance with the Have your say National Parks and Wildlife For further information regarding the Act 1974 recommended corridor alignments by Transport for NSW, please visit the The recommended Outer Sydney website at www.transport.nsw.gov.au/ Orbital (Stage One) corridor transverses corridors. the Wianamatta Regional Park. Should any corridor alignment pass through any You can provide feedback on this regional park, the necessary steps will Discussion Paper in the following ways: be taken for the purposes of revocation of the relevant land. • Make an online submission at www. transport.nsw.gov.au/corridors

Relationship to existing • Or email: environmental plans and [email protected] policies • Or write to: The proposed SEPP will supersede Corridor Investigation Office controls and land use zones stipulated in Transport for NSW other SEPPs, such as that for the Sydney PO Box K659 Growth Centres and relevant local Haymarket NSW 1240 environmental plans. Published submissions will include your name and the organisation on whose behalf you may be writing. Contact details such as email and postal addresses, and telephone numbers are not published. The Department of Planning and Environment reserve the right to not publish selected submissions (in full or part).

Please read the privacy statement available on the Department’s website, http://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/Privacy For more information • For further information please visit the website at www.transport.nsw. gov.au/corridors or phone 1800 837 511.

• If you require translation assistance, please call 131 450. 11 | Protection of transport corridors in Western Sydney | March 2018 Next Steps

This Discussion Paper presents the The Department of Planning and protections proposed for Transport Environment will review all submissions for NSW’s recommended corridors on the Discussion Paper made during in Western Sydney. It is designed to the consultation process. This feedback support the consultation process and will inform the preparation of the SEPP, is being released for public comment which will be presented to the Minister alongside detailed information for Planning for consideration after from Transport for NSW about the Transport for NSW determines the final recommended corridors. corridor alignments.

You are invited to provide feedback It is anticipated that a final SEPP will be on this Discussion Paper during the gazetted in 2018. exhibition period, by attending a community information session or by making a submission.

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