Building and Development 

UTS - Ku-ring-gai Campus, Lindfield - Proposed Redevelopment

UTS Ku-ring-gai Campus Redevelopment Proposal

On 12 December 2005 the Minister for Planning agreed to consider the proposal for the redevelopment of UTS as a potential Major Project. The Minister declared the proposal to be a Major Project (and therefore a project to which Part 3A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 applies) on 14 June 2007.

At this time he also authorised the submission of a concept plan for the proposed redevelopment. The requirements for a State significant site study were issued by the Department of Planning to UTS on 1 February 2006, and Director-General's Environmental Assessment Requirements for the Concept Plan were issued on 12 July 2007. This guides the preparation of an Environmental Assessment for public exhibition and assessment purposes.

UTS will submit a State significant site study and Environmental Assessment (EA) to support the Concept Plan to the Department of Planning for assessment and determination by the Minister for Planning. It is intended that the State significant site study and proposed concept plan be exhibited and processed concurrently. This will enable the Department to consider all environmental issues at the same time.

The proposed zoning is to be determined through the future listing of the site in Schedule 3 of the State Environmental Planning Policy (Major Projects) 2005 (Major Projects SEPP).

Council has submitted a list of issues to the Department for potential inclusion in the Director General's Environmental Assessment Requirements. The Requirements were issued 12 July 2007, and are available on the Department's website at:

http://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/asp/register2006.asp
(click on 'Greater Metropolitan Area including Central Coast' and search for 'UTS').

Community Reference Group

The Minister for Planning directed the Department in June 2007 to form a community reference group (CRG) to provide information and gain input to facilitate the planning assessment process for the UTS Ku-ring-gai proposal.

The CRG will provide a forum to:

a) provide information and a forum to enable diverse range of stakeholders to make a considered response to the proposal and prepare informed submissions to the assessment process; and

b) provide an opportunity for the Department of Planning to understand and consider stakeholder views, issues and comments as made by members of the CRG through the assessment process 

Terms of reference for the CRG can be found on the Department's website as above.

Its first meeting was held on 26 July 2007. The next meeting will be during the exhibition of the Environmental Assessment, and the final meeting around the time of the lodgement of the applicant's Preferred Project Report.

Further information

Further information on the status of the university campus may be found at the UTS website http://uts.edu.au/about/executive/kuringgai/index.html