New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WAVERLEY AND WOOLLAHRA JOINT LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1991--BONDI JUNCTION COMMERCIAL CENTRE - REG 2

2 Aims and objectives

(1) The general aims and objectives of this plan are:

(a) to replace the existing local environmental plans and planning scheme applying to the centre with a single local environmental plan and common planning policies and controls that will be administered jointly by the Councils of the Municipalities of Waverley and Woollahra,

(b) to assist Waverley and Woollahra Councils in the management of the centre,

(c) to maintain and reinforce the centre as the sub-regional centre for the eastern region of the Sydney metropolitan area,

(d) to provide for an appropriate balance and distribution of land for commercial, retail, residential and tourist development and recreation, entertainment and community facilities,

(e) to ensure growth of the centre occurs in a planned and co-ordinated manner which will be viable in the long term,

(f) to provide guidance to the community in terms of growth and development opportunities and the manner in which growth is proposed to be managed,

(g) to protect and improve the environmental amenity of the centre and adjacent areas,

(h) to conserve the environmental heritage of the centre,

(i) to provide for the safe and efficient movement of vehicles and pedestrians within and around the centre and to provide adequate access to all parts of the centre for emergency and service vehicles,

(j) to strengthen the role of the centre as a major public transport interchange, and

(k) to provide a framework for more detailed controls to be set out within development control plans.

(2) The specific aims and objectives of this plan are:

(a) in relation to retailing and commerce:

(i) to consolidate the retail and commercial core of the centre in order to benefit from access provided by the existing public transport infrastructure, and

(ii) to maintain and allow for an increase in the commercial and retail role of the centre,

(b) in relation to employment and economic development-to allow for a broad range of environmentally suitable development that will contribute towards the economic growth of the centre and will help to diversify and increase employment opportunities,

(c) in relation to residential development and density:

(i) to provide opportunities for residential development at various densities in appropriate areas, and

(ii) to ensure that residential development is carried out to a scale and with a character suitable for the centre,

(d) in relation to community services and facilities:

(i) to allow for the provision of new and additional community services and facilities which will meet the needs of the community, and

(ii) to allow for contribution towards the provision of community services and facilities,

(e) in relation to traffic and transport,

(i) to protect and enhance the efficiency of the existing and proposed road system,

(ii) to ensure that the densities for all development reflect the capacity of the existing road system,

(iii) to provide employment generating development opportunities in locations in close proximity to the bus/rail interchange so as to promote the efficient use of that facility.

(iv) to encourage the use of the existing public transport infrastructure, particularly for people employed in the centre,

(v) to provide for convenient, comfortable and safe access to public transport facilities,

(vi) to restrict the growth of commuter traffic and parking,

(vii) to ensure that adequate public and private parking, vehicular servicing and emergency service access is provided for in new development,

(viii) to ensure that any developer contributes towards traffic management measures necessitated by any development,

(ix) to allow for contribution towards the provision of car parking for new development, and

(x) to ensure that new development does not adversely affect the operations of the bus-rail interchange,

(f) in relation to recreation and tourism:

(i) to maintain, protect, enhance and expand existing open space,

(ii) to allow for contribution towards the provision and embellishment of public open space,

(iii) to allow for a range of tourist accommodation in the form of hotels and serviced apartments, and

(iv) to provide opportunities for recreation and entertainment facilities,

(g) in relation to heritage conservation:

(i) to identify heritage items and heritage conservation areas and to provide measures for their conservation,

(ii) to encourage the recycling (adaptive re-use) and restoration of existing buildings of heritage significance,

(iii) to require new development adjoining identified heritage items to be compatible with those items,

(iv) to integrate heritage conservation into the planning and development control process,

(v) to provide for public involvement in the matters relating to the conservation of the centre’s environmental heritage, and

(vi) to ensure that new development is undertaken in a manner that is sympathetic to, and does not detract from, the heritage significance of heritage items and their settings and heritage conservation areas,

(h) in relation to urban design and pedestrian amenity:

(i) to improve the amenity of the centre by urban design and landscape proposals,

(ii) to enhance the public environment and visual amenity,

(iii) to ensure that new development is sensitive to the amenity of the centre by having regard to aspects including the public environment, microclimate and views,

(iv) to ensure that building design is of the highest quality and that the physical character of the centre is enhanced,

(v) to encourage development which contributes positively to the streetscape,

(vi) to minimise adverse environmental impacts on the Oxford Street Mall,

(vii) to encourage pedestrian links at street level to facilitate pedestrian movement,

(viii) to minimise conflicts between pedestrians and vehicles,

(ix) to protect and improve the shopper and pedestrian vitality of the centre by supporting the establishment of shops and other shopper oriented uses on ground floor street frontages, particularly in the Oxford Street Mall, and

(x) to encourage people to circulate at street level and to discourage pedestrian overpasses and underpasses,

(i) in relation to adjacent residential areas-to ensure that any new development in the centre does not unreasonably affect the amenity of residential areas adjoining and surrounding the centre by virtue of the nature of the use or uses, the design, bulk and scale of the development and any traffic generation.