Cessnock Local Environmental Plan 2011 (Amendment No 7) - Greta Train Support Facility

The Planning Proposal (PP) seeks to rezone the subject land from RU2 Rural Landscape to part SP2 Infrastructure (Railway) and part E2 Environmental Conservation.The rezoning will make the Train Support Facility (TSF), already approved for the site under Part 3A of the EP& A Act 1979, permissible under Cessnock Local Environmental Plan 2011. Otherwise the development will need to rely on existing use right provisions. The significant vegetation (approximately 19.8ha), which forms part of the biodiversity offset package for the TSF, will be zoned E2 Environmental Conservation. In addition, it is proposed to amend the lot size map, so that there is no minimum requirement for the land zoned SP2 Infrastructure and an 80ha minimum requirement for the land zoned E2 Environmental Conservation.