Draft Western District Plan Submission_id: 31557 Date of Lodgment: 15 Dec 2017 Origin of Submission: Online Organisation name: Elton Consulting Organisation type: Other First name: Vasiliki Last name: Andrews Suburb: 2022 Submission content: Please find attached our submission to the draft Greater Sydney Region Outline Plan and Revised Draft District Plan – Western District . Number of attachments: 1 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) 15 December 2017 Ms Sarah Hill Chief Executive Officer Greater Sydney Commission PO Box 257 Parramatta NSW 2124 Submission made via website Dear Ms Hill, Submission draft Greater Sydney Region Outline Plan and Revised Draft District Plan – Western District This submission has been prepared on behalf of Scenic NSW Pty Ltd. (Scenic) in respect of 270 hectares of land in single ownership. The site is located at Denham Court, Campbelltown within the boundaries of what is known as “The Scenic Hills” in the South West District. Scenic welcomes the opportunity to comment on the release of the draft Greater Sydney Region Outline Plan and the revised draft Western District Plan, both of which will provide an important strategic resource for planning for the district and wider metropolitan area. Our key comments and recommendations are set out below. Further, we note that we had made a submission on behalf of Scenic to the Draft South West District Plan and Our Vision Towards Our Greater Sydney 2056. Many of the issues and recommendations made in that submission are still relevant. A copy of this submission is attached. Submission In summary, Scenic broadly supports: » District-level planning to connect local planning with longer term metropolitan planning for Greater Sydney in an effort to enhance productivity, liveability and sustainability across the district » The three-city strategy and integrated land use and transport approach » Directions and objectives of the draft Greater Sydney Region Outline Plan and Directions and Planning Priorities of the revised draft Western District Plan Further, we strongly support the statement under Objective 28 Scenic and cultural landscapes are protected of the district plan: “While consideration of scenic landscapes occurs through a range of mechanisms relevant to heritage, biodiversity and major project delivery, there is a role for local planning to consider that scenic landscapes as part of growth and change across Greater Sydney”. We do however provide the following comments and recommendations for your consideration in finalising these important strategic plans. » There appears to be a mismatch between the predicted demand for employment land and housing supply and the land identified for growth. The draft plan should identify additional areas including our site for investigation (urban and greenfield) to match predicted demand - plus ~10% to allow for slippage and non-delivery which is an inevitable part of the planning system. » Additional investigation areas should be identified for short, medium and longer-term potential, in line with infrastructure provision (i.e. 0-10 yrs.; 10-20 yrs.; and 20+ yrs.). We consider that our site should be identified as an urban investigation area in the short term 1 given the location of the site wedged between the priority growth areas and the fact there is infrastructure already available with capacity to service the site. » The criteria for investigation areas being brought forward (via District Plans) within the broad and robust framework should be clearly articulated in the Regional Plan. The potential for concentrations of jobs and homes around new infrastructure (especially rail stations – existing and proposed) should also be emphasised. » The application of the Metropolitan Rural Area as “greenwash” is not supported and should be applied only where there is a clear and evidence based requirement. The MRA needs to achieve set objective(s) and not simply be applied universally across all lands beyond current urban boundaries to simply halt growth. In the case of our site, Scenic believes that the site is not really part of the Metropolitan Rural Area for the reasons detailed below. > The site is an infill site detached with its boundaries and that of The Scenic Hills bordered mostly by urban development or land currently in the process of being developed for urban use. This includes the cemetery site to the west, South West Priority Release Area immediately to the north, Edmondson Park and Bardia to the north-east and the Greater Macarthur Priority Release Area to the south and south west. Existing suburbs are scattered throughout and include Narellen, Raby, Gregory Hills and rural residential land in Denham Court area. See Figure 1 and Figure 2. > The site is not located within any agricultural cluster and used for commercial purposes. The western area of the site is used for an equine centre/riding school and hosts wedding receptions (Ottimo House) (See Figure 3), while the eastern lot comprises rural residential with the remaining land being vacant. It is noted that expansion of the wedding function centre was recently approved by Council by way of Development application 747/2016. > The site does not support any significant agricultural or primary industry and neither do the current planning controls allow for this > The site is in single ownership and can be delivered immediately to market. Other release areas such as Leppington and Austral are highly fragmented and will take many years to reach the market - if at all > The site has excellent access to existing road and rail infrastructure > The site is in proximity to the surrounding centres of Leppington, Ingleburn, Edmondson Park, Liverpool and Campbelltown-Macarthur offering employment, educational, health, commercial and retail services and facilities > The more significant environmental and visually prominent scenic values of the site can be protected while allowing for facilitating urban development to occur. If developed, land that is of high scenic and environmental value could be protected through zoning and public dedication of the specific areas > There is capacity to provide utility infrastructure to the site immediately through augmentation. » The GSC should work with Federal, State and Local governments to help fund, own and secure regionally important elements of the green and blue grid (i.e. main riparian corridors and visually prominent elements of the Scenic Hills etc.) as important recreational and healthy active transport resources linking across LGAs and growth areas. This would replace the ad hoc and unsustainable approach currently in place and help implement one of the core features of the draft Regional Plan. We consider that parts of our site have the potential to deliver important elements of the green grid on the ground. 2 Figure 1 Regional context The site Source: Source: Greater Sydney Commission, NSW Department of Planning and Environment & NSW Government Housing Affordability Package 3 Figure 2 Local context Roberts day 2017 Figure 3 Ottimo House Function Centre (existing and recently approved expansion) Conclusion Scenic appreciates the Greater Sydney Growth Commission’s consideration of our submission. Scenic’s site presents an extremely rare opportunity to address the chronic issue of housing supply and should be considered for urban investigation. Given its size, location, single ownership and immediate access to infrastructure and utilities; the site could effectively be put into production immediately, and certainly well in advanced of much of the land within the adjacent South West Priority Growth Area. Our client is keen to work collaboratively with the Greater Sydney Commission, The Department of Planning and Environment, the City of Campbelltown Council, government agencies, industry and the community to develop an infrastructure and land use plan for the site. We believe that we can deliver a place based response, of design excellence that builds on and protects the site’s strengths - scenic, heritage, environmental and visual qualities - with the potential to 4 provide for a recreational and environmental resource for the district and link into a wider regional resource that can be used by future residents, the surrounding community and visitors. Thank you again for the opportunity to comment on these important strategic plans. Yours sincerely Vasiliki (Vas) Andrews Project Manager Urban and Regional Planning Enclosed: Submission to the South West District Plan March, 2017 5 Submission - Draft South West District Plan Denham Court, Campbelltown Client: Scenic NSW P/L Date: 31 March 2017 Final Contact: Robert Bennett/ Vasiliki (Vas) Andrews Sydney 02 9387 2600 Level 6 332 – 342 Oxford Street Bondi Junction NSW 2022 www.elton.com.au [email protected] Sydney | Canberra | Darwin ABN 56 003 853 101 Prepared by Vasiliki (Vas) Andrews Reviewed by Rob Bennett Date 31 March 2017 Document name 170331_EC Scenic NSW PL_Submission_SW District_FINAL Version Final Contents 1 PURPOSE 4 2 THE SITE 5 2.1 Context 5 2.2 Site description 8 3 SUBMISSION 12 3.1 Housing supply and affordability 12 3.2 Integrated land use planning and infrastructure 17 3.3 Sydney’s Green Grid 18 3.4 The Scenic Hills 20 3.5 Metropolitan Rural Area 25 4 CONCLUSION 28 FIGURES Figure 1 Strategic context plan 6 Figure 2 Site zoning in the context of the wider area 6 Figure 3 Site zoning 7 Figure 4 Site context plan 9 Figure 5 Site plan 10 Figure 6 Terrain analysis 11 Figure 7 Ratio of Sydney and Melbourne House Prices by Region 1985-2016 13 Figure 8 SW Sydney vs West NW Outer Melbourne House Prices 1985-2016 13 Figure 9 Fragmented land in SW 14 Figure 10 Fragmented land in the south west priority land release area 15 Figure 11 South West District Green Grid 19 Figure 12 The Scenic Hills and South West District 21 Figure 13 South West subregion 22 Figure 14 The Scenic Hills 24 Figure 15 The Metropolitan Rural Area and Sydney’s water catchment area 27 TABLES Table 1 Site description 8 Table 2 Key features of the site 8 1 Purpose This submission has been prepared on behalf of Scenic NSW P/L (Scenic) in respect of 270 hectares of land in single ownership.