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

Principles and objectives
Protect and extend lunchtime
and late morning sun access
Enhance permeability within
the area
Enhance and encourage the
mall’s use as a major
pedestrian space and informal
meeting place
Conserve and enhance the
area’s heritage significance
Protect and enhance the eastwest
vistas along King Street.
Consistency with permissibility and other
objectives/principles
the impacts would be negligible as the majority
of people who use the area travel into the city
centre on public transport. For those that travel
into the city at the weekend by car, there are a
number of off-street car parks locally to
compensate for any losses. Section 6.5.4
discusses this further
The infrastructure change would be limited and
would not affect the form, function, permeability
or heritage value of the area.
Access DCP 2004
The Access DCP aims to provide ‘non-discriminatory, equitable and dignified access
for all people who use the city centre, regardless of [their] disability’. The DCP
principally sets out standards to provide wheelchair access. The provisions of the
DCP are broadly consistent with the Australian Government’s Disability
Discrimination Act 1992 (refer to section 4.4.2). Section 3.2.2 describes how the
concept design has responded to this act.
Contaminated Land DCP 2004
The Contaminated Land DCP establishes the framework for contaminated land
management within the city centre. Its objectives are to:
Ensure that land use changes will not present a human health or environmental
risk
Avoid inappropriate land use restrictions
Provide information to support decision making and to inform the community.
The DCP identifies a four-stage process that an applicant may be required to
undertake when preparing and submitting a development application. Whilst Roads
and Maritime is not required to adopt this process (refer section 4.1.1) it is still bound
by the provisions of the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997 (refer to
section 4.3.4). Under Part 5 of the EP&A Act, the REF must also examine all matters
affecting or likely to affect the environment to the fullest extent. This includes the
potential for contamination impacts.
Section 6.8.3 considers the proposal’s potential contamination impacts. This is
consistent with stage 1 of the DCP’s four-stage evaluation process (ie a preliminary
investigation). As noted under section 4.1.2, the contamination risk across the
proposal footprint is not sufficient to have an impact or to hinder development of the
proposal footprint.
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Review of Environmental Factors