New South Wales Consolidated Acts

REDFERN-WATERLOO AUTHORITY ACT 2004 - SECT 27

27 Redfern-Waterloo Plan

(1) For the purpose of assisting the Authority in the exercise of its functions under this Act, the Minister, in consultation with the Board, is to prepare and maintain a plan for the operational area to be called the “Redfern-Waterloo Plan”.

(2) The Redfern-Waterloo Plan may make provision for or with respect to the following matters in relation to the operational area:

(a) the strategic vision for the sustainable improvement of the area,

(b) urban design,

(c) land use zoning,

(d) the carrying out of development,

(e) human services,

(f) the creation of employment opportunities,

(g) infrastructure, including transport and pedestrian facilities,

(h) renewal and regeneration of public land and assets,

(i) the maintenance of a social mix of income levels, household types and cultural groupings,

(j) the provision of affordable housing for owners and tenants (including publicly funded housing),

(k) any other matter that the Minister considers is essential for the purposes of this Act.

(3) The Minister is to make the Redfern-Waterloo Plan publicly available.

(4) The Minister is to keep the Redfern-Waterloo Plan under review and is to have regard to any public submissions made on the Plan from time to time.

(5) The Minister may amend or replace the Redfern-Waterloo Plan.

(6) The Minister may request the Minister administering the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 to make any environmental planning instrument that is necessary to give effect to the environmental planning aspects of the Redfern-Waterloo Plan.

(7) The Minister administering the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 may make an environmental planning instrument for the purposes of subsection (6):

(a) in accordance with that Act, or

(b) by order published on the NSW legislation website.

This subsection has effect despite any provision of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .

(8) The Authority may, at the request of the Director-General of the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources, provide resources or undertake work in relation to the preparation of environmental planning instruments, development control plans and environmental studies under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 that will have effect in relation to the operational area.

(9) A reference in this section to the Redfern-Waterloo Plan includes a reference to an amendment of the Plan or the replacement of the Plan.