DETERMINATION
The Local Planning Panel recommends to Council:
(a) That
Council endorse the Planning Proposal at Attachment 1 for the purpose
of requesting a Gateway Determination for land at 8-14 Great Western Highway,
Parramatta, which seeks to amend Parramatta Local Environment Plan 2011
(PLEP 2011) by way of:
i. Increasing the height of building control from
28 metres to 211 metres;
ii. Amending the
controls so that the FSR which is
to apply to the site is composed of mapped components and bonuses as follows:
a. Mapped
FSR increased from 3.5:1 to 10:1 of which a minimum of 1:1 FSR must be
commercial uses;
b. Design
Excellence bonus (15% - 1.5:1);
c. High
Performing Buildings bonus (5% - 0.5:1);
d. Opportunity
Sites bonus (3:1);
e. Unlimited
commercial FSR above the 1:1 requirement; and
f. Insert a site-specific provision applying
maximum car parking rates per the Parramatta CBD Strategic Transport Study.
(b) That the
Planning Proposal be forwarded to the Department of Planning, Industry and
Environment with a request for a Gateway Determination to be issued.
(c) That
should a Gateway Determination be issued that structures the floor space
ratio (FSR) and site specific clauses in an alternative way, that the Chief
Executive Officer is authorised to make the necessary amendments to the
Planning Proposal for the purposes of public exhibition, only where the total
proposed FSR is unchanged.
(d) That
should a Gateway Determination be issued, a site-specific Development Control
Plan be prepared in accordance with the design principles contained within
this report.
(e) That
should a Gateway Determination be issued, the Chief Executive
Officer be authorised to negotiate a Planning Agreement in accordance with
Council’s Planning Agreements Policy.
(f) That
the draft site-specific Development Control Plan and draft Planning Agreement
be reported to Council for endorsement prior to being publicly exhibited
concurrently with the Planning Proposal.
(g) That
Council request the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment to issue
Council’s Chief Executive Officer plan-making delegations for this Planning
Proposal.
(h) Further,
that Council authorise the Chief Executive Officer to correct any minor
anomalies of a non-policy and administrative nature that may arise during the
plan-making process.
The deicision of the
Panel was unanimous.
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