sydney-city-centre-review-of-environmental-factors

maintenance of traffic flows in the future. As such, the city centre road network would
be unlikely to continue to function effectively once light rail is introduced. It would also
be difficult to set other bus and cycle priorities without first relieving traffic congestion
elsewhere across the network.
As noted above, delivering the benefits of the proposal would have an impact on
kerbside allocation provisions, most notably loading and on-street parking. The
proposal has been careful in designing solutions that limit kerbside impacts. In many
cases some loading provisions are retained or they are relocated elsewhere along
the road. Subsequent to this proposal, Transport for NSW in collaboration with City of
Sydney Council, is in the process of developing a kerbside allocation strategy that
will manage and prioritise the changes that need to occur within the city centre to
deliver the Access Strategy. When implementing kerbside allocation modifications
across the city centre, space for taxi bays and zones, loading zones (delivery and
service vehicles) and mobility parking would be a high priority.
The proposal is expected to achieve its objectives, but would result in some
environmental and social impacts as summarised above. The environmental impacts
of the proposal are not likely to be significant and therefore it is not necessary for an
environmental impact statement to be prepared and approval to be sought for the
proposal from the Minister for Planning and Environment under part 5.1 of the EP&A
Act. The proposal is unlikely to affect threatened species, populations or ecological
communities or their habitats, within the meaning of the Threatened Species
Conservation Act 1995 or Fisheries Management Act 1994 and therefore a Species
Impact Statement is not required. The proposal is also unlikely to affect Australian
Government land or have an impact on any matters of national environmental
significance.
Display of the review of environmental factors
This REF is on display for comment between Monday 24 November 2014 and Friday
9 January 2015. You can access the documents in the following ways.
Internet
The documents will be available as portable document files (pdfs) on the Roads and
Maritime website at www.rms.gov.au and feedback can be provided at
www.haveyoursay.nsw.gov.au.
Display
The review documents can be viewed at the following locations:
City of Sydney Neighbourhood Service Centres
City centre
One Stop Shop
Level 3 Town Hall House
456 Kent Street, Sydney City 2000
8.00am–6.00pm Monday–Friday
Glebe
186 Glebe Point Road
Glebe NSW 2037
9.00am–5.00pm Monday–Friday
Redfern
158 Redfern Street
Redfern NSW 2016
9.00am–5.00pm Monday–Friday
9.00am–1.00pm Saturday
Green Square
100 Joynton Avenue
Zetland NSW 2017
9.00am–6.00pm Monday–Friday
Sydney City Centre Capacity Improvement Plan
Review of Environmental Factors
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