New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

SYDNEY REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN NO 28--PARRAMATTA - REG 41

41 Planning aims for the Camellia Precinct

(1) The aims of this Part are as follows:

(a) to protect and support the integrity of the Camellia Precinct as one of Sydney’s significant industrial hubs,

(b) to maintain and improve existing access to major public transport links outside the area,

(c) to promote industrial development in the Camellia Precinct that demonstrates innovation and environmental management best practice,

(d) to maintain long-term opportunities for future investment in eco-industrial development in the Camellia Precinct,

(e) to promote the development of mutually supportive relationships between industries including processes, practices, products, energy use and waste,

(f) to ensure that development along the foreshore is of a scale and character in keeping with its foreshore location and that the unique visual and ecological qualities of the waterways and foreshore are protected and enhanced,

(g) to seek opportunities to provide public access to the foreshore at appropriate locations and improve the connectivity of the foreshore open space network,

(h) to maintain existing racecourse uses and facilitate expansion of the existing racecourse and other uses that are ancillary or associated with the racing industry in the Camellia Precinct,

(i) to develop a mixed use centre of retail, commercial, transport and community services at the railway station node serving the Camellia Precinct,

(j) to encourage industry that can capitalise on the Camellia Precinct’s accessibility, particularly the use of the rail freight line,

(k) to achieve environmental management best practice that protects and promotes the natural assets of Camellia,

(l) to improve environmental performance that minimises energy and resource use as well as off-site air quality, noise, odour, dust, water, soil and contamination impacts,

(m) to protect and enhance local and regional biodiversity, particularly maximising the extent and integrity of aquatic and natural land areas along the Parramatta River, Duck River, Duck Creek and A’Becketts Creek corridors.

(2) The consent authority must consider these objectives when assessing any application for development within the Camellia Precinct.