The Planning Proposal includes the same proposed controls as a previous Planning Proposal for this site which was considered by Bayside Council. This previous Planning Proposal was originally submitted to Council in December 2018 and later considered by Council at a meeting in August 2019, where it was endorsed to proceed to a Gateway Determination and public exhibition. Following the exhibition of the Planning Proposal between July and August 2020, a report was considered by Council in December 2020. It was resolved that the proposed LEP amendments were not to be adopted.

The proponent then resubmitted the Planning Proposal to Council in the same form in May 2021. On 3 November 2021, Council resolved not to support this Planning Proposal proceeding to a Gateway Determination.

Following this resolution, the proponent for the site submitted the Planning Proposal to the NSW Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) for a ‘Rezoning Review’. This review process allows proponents to seek a review of the strategic and site-specific merits of a Planning Proposal by an independent body, if it is not supported by Council or no determination is made within a certain period of time.

On 10 March 2022, the Panel considered the Planning Proposal and determined that it demonstrated strategic and site-specific merit and should proceed to a Gateway Determination. The Panel resolved to appoint itself as the Planning Proposal Authority, in place of Council.

You can view the project page for the previous proposal considered by Council here.