Urban Renewal SEPP Planned
Date: 22 Feb 2010The NSW Department of Planning is preparing an Urban Renewal State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP) to consolidate and streamline the rezoning process for areas that are defined as urban renewal precincts. It is planned that the Urban Renewal SEPP will:
- streamline the rezoning approach for designated precincts where there is urban renewal opportunity associated with public transport;
- promote mixed use and appropriate higher intensity uses within walking distance of public transport infrastructure;
- achieve a sustainable centre structure and built form via consistency with an adopted precinct plan prepared using urban design guidelines;
- be simple, rapid and able to deliver land use certainty.
The Government has acknowledged that even with improved planning controls, legislative reform may be required to allow the Government to amalgamate sites in defined urban renewal precincts by;
- reducing the majority of strata title holders required to enable strata redevelopment within defined urban renewal precincts;
- enabling compulsory acquisition of property covered by an adopted urban renewal precinct plan in situations where achieving an urban renewal outcome is at risk - even where the property may be onsold for private development.