Pemulwuy Mixed Use Development - Exhibition until 29 Feb 2012

Subject: - Exhibition of Pemulwuy Mixed Use Development, Redfern (MP06_0101 MOD 1 & MP11_0093)

Aboriginal Housing Company Limited has submitted Environmental Assessments (EAs) for the above proposed project application and associated modification to the approved concept plan. The applications involve the demolition of existing improvements on the land and construction of a residential, commercial, retail, community and cultural facilities, public Open space, landscaping and car parking development.

The EAs may be viewed on the Department's website (http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au). The EAs will also be on exhibition from Thursday 19 January 2012 until Wednesday 29 February 2012 during regular business hours, at:

• Department of Planning & Infrastructure, Information Centre, 23-33 Bridge Street, Sydney;
• City of Sydney Council, One Stop Shop, Level 2, Town Hall House, 456 Kent Street, Sydney; and 
• Redfern Neighbourhood Service Centre, 158 Redfern Street, Redfern.
  

If you wish to make a submission on the project, it must reach the Department by close of business on Wednesday 29 February 2012.
For further details on how to make a submission, please see below.

Persons lodging submissions are required to declare reportable political donations (including donations of $1000 or more) made in the previous two years. For more details, including a disclosure form, go to www.planning.nsw.gov.au/donations.

Under section 75H of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, the Director-General is required to provide copies of submissions received during the exhibition period, or a report of the issues raised in those submissions, to the Proponent and other interested public authorities. It is Departmental policy to also place a copy of your submission on the Departments website. If you do not want your name to be made available to the Proponent, these authorities, or on the Department's website, please clearly state this in your submission.

Your contact officer for this proposal, Jane Flanagan, can be contacted on Phone: (02) 9228 6431; Fax: (02) 9228 6455; Email: jane.flanagan@planning.nsw.gov.au. Please mark all correspondence regarding the proposal to Ms Flanagan's attention.

Yours sincerely
Alan Bright
A/Director Metropolitan and Regional Projects South
Department of Planning & Infrastructure 23-33 Bridge Street, Sydney NSW 2000 GPO Box 39, Sydney NSW 2001 Phone 02 9228 6111 Fax 02 9228 6455 Website planning.nsw.gov.au

EXHIBITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS - Pemulwuy Mixed Use Development, Redfern

Application No:    MP06_0101 MOD 1 & MP11_0093
Location:              Eveleigh, Vine, Louis, Caroline and Lawson Streets, Redfern
Proponent:           Aboriginal Housing Company Limited
Council area:       City of Sydney

Description of proposal

1. Modification of the approved concept plan for a mixed use development of the site comprising: affordable and student housing units, commercial, retail, community and cultural facilities, public open space, landscaping and car parking, to permit:

• a higher total gross floor area (GFA);
• less retail/commercial community and cultural facilities GFA;
• more residential and public open space GFA and more car parking; and
• no community re-use of 1-11 Vine Street.

2. A Project Application for:

Demolition of existing improvements on the land and construction of the mixed use development in accordance with the concept plan, incorporating the proposed modifications. 

Exhibition

A copy of the Environmental Assessments (EAs) may be viewed on the Department of Planning & Infrastructure's website (http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au). The EAs will also be on exhibition from Thursday 19 January 2012 until Wednesday 29 February 2012 during regular business hours at:

• Department of Planning & Infrastructure, Information Centre, 23-33 Bridge Street, Sydney; and
• City of Sydney Council, One Stop Shop, Level 2, Town Hall House, 456 Kent Street, Sydney; and 
• Redfern Neighbourhood Service Centre, 158 Redfern Street, Redfern. 

Submissions

Submissions on the applications must reach the Department by close of business on Wednesday 29 February 2012. Your submission should include:

• Your name and address;
• The name of the applications and the application numbers;
• A statement on whether you support or object to the project; and
• The reasons why you support or object to the project.

Your submission should be:

• Faxed to (02) 9228 6455;
• Posted to Major Projects Assessment, Department of Planning & Infrastructure, GPO Box 39, SYDNEY NSW 2001; or
• Emailed to plan_comment@planning.nsw.gov.au or via the entry for the project on the Department's website (http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au)

Persons lodging submissions are required to declare reportable political donations (including donations of $1000 or more) made in the previous two years. For more details, including a disclosure form, go to www. planning .nsw.gov.au/donations

Under section 75H of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, the Director-General is required to provide copies of submissions received during the exhibition period, or a report of the issues raised in those submissions, to the Proponent and other interested public authorities. it is Departmental policy to also place a copy of your submission on the Department's website. If you do not want your name to be made available to the Proponent, these authorities, or on the Department's website, please clearly state this in your submission.

Enquiries: 1300 305 695 or information@planning.nsw.gov.au

Links to documents on the Department of Planning & Infrastructure from REDWatch

There are two exhibitions happening simultaneously so there are two EAs - Environmental Assessment _ Project Approval Application No 11_0093.pdf and Environmental Assessment Modification of Concept Plan Approval No 06_0101.pdf. All the supporting Appendices are the same for both exhibitions and can be found under Pemulwuy Mixed Use Development Concept Plan MP06_0101 MOD 1.

The Department's website also shows the documents submitted by the AHC on two occasions to obtain the Departments requirements for the exhibition (the Director General's Requirements (DGRs). The initial documents submitted are difficult to follow on the departments website as there is no indication of what is in each file. For a list of contents of each file in the 2010 application see REDWatch's Pemulwuy Project Modification Details Publicly Available.

The application documents also contains a copy of the approval to submit from landholders covered by the proposal including the City of Sydney Council, Aboriginal Medical Centre, Housing NSW, The Australian Securities and Investments Commission and previously the Department of Aboriginal Affairs NSW these can be found under Section 75W application form.pdf (952.9 KB).

All documents will be available at:

• Pemulwuy Mixed Used Development, Redfern
• Pemulwuy Mixed Use Development Concept Plan MP06_0101 MOD 1

at 157-163 Cleveland Street Redfern was also expected in January 2012. It is not a part of the Pemulwuy Project but is a separate development proposed by Urbabest in the same precinct so keep an eye out also for this exhibition.