MOLONGLO VALLEY STAGE 3 PLANNING AND DESIGN FRAMEWORK FEBRUARY 2019 © Australian Capital Territory, Canberra 2019 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission from: Director-General, Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate, ACT Government, GPO Box 158, Canberra ACT 2601. Telephone: 02 6207 1923 Website: www.planning.act.gov.au Accessibility The ACT Government is committed to making its information, services, events and venues as accessible as possible. If you have difficulty reading a standard printed document and would like to receive this publication in an alternative format, such as large print, please phone Access Canberra on 13 22 81 or email the Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate at [email protected] If English is not your first language and you require a translating and interpreting service, please phone 13 14 50. If you are deaf, or have a speech or hearing impairment, and need the teletypewriter service, please phone 13 36 77 and ask for Access Canberra on 13 22 81. For speak and listen users, please phone 1300 555 727 and ask for Canberra Connect on 13 22 81. For more information on these services visit http://www.relayservice.com.au PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................5 2. NES PLAN REQUIREMENTS .................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 3. TERRITORY PLAN .................................................................................................................................................................................................................9 4. EXEMPTION FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT ...........................................................................................................10 5. CONSERVATOR OF FLORA AND FAUNA’S ADVICE ........................................................................................................................11 6. PLANNING AND DESIGN FRAMEWORK ..................................................................................................................................................12 6.1 DWELLINGS .................................................................................................................................................................................12 6.2 COMMERCIAL CENTRES ............................................................................................................................................................12 6.3 SCHOOLS ......................................................................................................................................................................................14 6.4 COMMUNITY FACILITIES.............................................................................................................................................................16 6.5 DISTRICT PLAYING FIELDS.........................................................................................................................................................16 6.6 OTHER RECREATION FACILITIES ..............................................................................................................................................17 6.7 PUBLIC SPACES AND PARKS ....................................................................................................................................................17 6.8 LANDSCAPE, SETTING, TOPOGRAPHY AND TREES .............................................................................................................17 6.9 REQUIREMENTS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL PLAN ............................................................................................................19 6.10 ROAD NETWORK ......................................................................................................................................................................19 6.11 PUBLIC TRANSPORT NETWORK ............................................................................................................................................21 6.12 INTERTOWN PUBLIC TRANSPORT CORRIDOR ...................................................................................................................21 6.13 ACTIVE TRAVEL NETWORK ......................................................................................................................................................23 6.14 EQUESTRIAN NETWORK ..........................................................................................................................................................23 6.15 BUSHFIRE ...................................................................................................................................................................................23 6.16 HERITAGE ...................................................................................................................................................................................23 6.17 BUFFER TO KAMA NATURE RESERVE ...................................................................................................................................25 6.18 MOLONGLO RIVER RESERVE INTERFACE .............................................................................................................................25 6.19 NES PLAN - PATCH GG AND PATCH N INTERFACE .............................................................................................................26 6.20 NATIONAL ARBORETUM CANBERRA INTERFACE ...............................................................................................................26 6.21 DEEP CREEK CORRIDOR ..........................................................................................................................................................27 6.22 COPPINS CREEK CORRIDOR ...................................................................................................................................................28 6.23 MOLONGLO RIVER RESERVE TO DAIRY FARMER’S HILL CORRIDOR ...............................................................................28 6.24 TRUNK INFRASTRUCTURE AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS ...............................................................................................29 MOLONGLO PLANNING AND DESIGN FRAMEWORK - STAGE 3 3 1. INTRODUCTION On 20 December 2011, the Commonwealth Minister The PDF is a long term high level plan to guide future for the Environment approved the ACT Government’s detailed planning and development and includes: Molonglo Valley Plan for the Protection of Matters of → relevant NES Plan actions and commitments; National Environmental Significance (NES Plan) under the requirements of the Commonwealth’s Environment → refines the Territory Plan’s Molonglo and North Weston Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 Structure Plan; (EPBC Act). → requirements to be incorporated into future detail design and subdivision planning; The NES Plan was a strategic assessment under Part 10 → planning principles3 to inform future detail design and of the EPBC Act. subdivision planning; The NES Plan evaluated development proposed through → indicative design plans to be prepared for certain the 2008 Variation to the Territory Plan No. 281 (Molonglo areas prior to progressing fully to detail design and and North Weston) and Amendment to the National subdivision planning; and Capital Plan No. 63 (Molonglo and North Weston) on → a framework plan that graphically represents certain matters of national environmental significance (MNES) provisions of the PDF. across the Molonglo Valley and identified 44 avoidance, mitigation, on-ground management, and offsetting The PDF will apply until development within Molonglo measures and commitments to protect those MNES. Stage 3 is completed, in approximately 15 to 20 years. The NES Plan also identified a further 16 requirements The PDF is non-statutory and does not constitute a and actions relating to further studies and protection concept plan under Section 93 of the ACT’s Planning of MNES; construction activities; fire management; and Development Act 2007. However, it is required to be and annual monitoring and five yearly auditing of the taken into consideration in detail design and planning implementation of the NES Plan. and in the determination of development applications The MNES items assessed through the strategic including estate development plans (i.e. subdivision). assessment were box-gum woodland, natural temperate Indicative design plans have been specified where there grassland, pink-tailed worm lizard, superb parrot, and is a need for a greater level of design consideration to swift parrot. be prepared to ensure that the intended approach to A NES Plan commitment required that a planning and resolve the matter is appropriate and is consistent with design framework (PDF) be prepared to guide detailed the overarching intent of the PDF. Indicative design plans planning and future development within Molonglo Stage are to be conceptual and be undertaken early in the 31. Molonglo Stage 3 is located between the Molonglo subsequent detailed planning