AHC Pemulwuy Project receives Planning Approval

The AHC can now prepare their plans and start exploring funding options with the certainty that the project outlined in their Concept Plan and the Minister’s approval can proceed.

Questions were raised at the media conference about funding for the project. The approval of the Concept Plan means certainty that the approved project can be built and the AHC can now commence discussions with potential funding bodies, financiers and building partners.

It is important to remember that the AHC had to separate out the Concept Plan Approval from any possible funding arrangements as the State Government was using the possibility of Government funding strings to try and influence what was to be built on the block.

Now the concept plan has been approved then discussions can commence about funding support and commercial financing.

The impasse of the last several years over what the NSW Government will allow to be built on the Block is now officially over.

For the AHC the challenge now is to make the project a reality.

You can read the Minister's media release Pemulwuy Project to Breathe new life into the Block and also the media release from Clover Moore City welcomes Pemulwuy project. 

The Director General's Report.pdf 4.484 MB and the Instrument of Approval.pdf 842.8 KB can be downloaded from the http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au/index.pl?action=view_job&job_id=1177

Media reports on the story can be found at:

• 'Brand new day': Green light for Block overhaul (ABC)
• No funds for Redfern's The Block yet (Nine MSN)