Timeline
| Post Feb 2025 | Formal consultation begins if Council resolves to progress a particular scenario as a planning proposal. |
| Post Feb 2025 | Council will commence work post-February 2025 if it adopts a preferred non-statutory scenario for further development into a planning proposal |
| Feb 2025 – Ordinary Meeting | Community engagement reported to Council. outlining the outcomes of community engagement in relation to alternative scenarios to the TOD SEPP amendments for Roseville and Gordon Ward in light of the primary objectives: a) to retain and protect Heritage Conservation Areas (HCAs); b) to improve urban canopy outcomes; and c) to meet the dwelling targets stipulated by the State Government for the TOD program |
| 28 Dec 2024 | Discussions with NSW Government on Council’s approach (if Council adopts scenarios for exhibition) Primary objectives for the study are: a) to retain and protect Heritage Conservation Areas (HCAs); b) to improve urban canopy outcomes; and c) to meet the dwelling targets stipulated by the State Government for the TOD program |
| 17 Dec 2024 | Non-statutory public exhibition on alternative scenarios to the TOD SEPP closes |
| 22 Nov 2024 | Ku-ring-gai Council Vs NSW Government TOD be listed for further directions |
| 21 Nov 2024 | Land & Environment Court directed Mediation with NSW Government |
| Nov 2024 | Non-statutory public exhibition to commence on Council’s draft land use options Nov-Dec 2024 |
| 30 Oct 2024 | The 8 May 2024 resolution requires both community engagement and the scenarios to be presented to Councillors for a decision within 9 months, being February 2025. This means consultation needs to be undertaken prior to Christmas to meet the timeline. The Extraordinary Meeting will provide Council with the opportunity to consider the scenarios and timeline, and decide whether to proceed to consultation. Extraordinary meeting to receive Officers’ Report on whether to adopt exhibiting housing scenarios to explore better resident outcomes for the four Transport Oriented Development precincts of Gordon, Killara, Lindfield and Roseville Primary objectives for the study are: a) to retain and protect Heritage Conservation Areas (HCAs); b) to improve urban canopy outcomes; and c) to meet the dwelling targets stipulated by the State Government for the TOD program Roseville Ward Endorse for non statutory public exhibition for comparative purposes. – Scenario 1 TOD (base case) – Scenario 2 – Scenario 3a Gordon Ward Endorse for non statutory public exhibition for comparative purposes. – Scenario 1 TOD (base case) – Scenario 2 – Scenario 3a – Scenario 3b |
| 30 Oct 2024 | Confidential item re Land and Environment Court of NSW – TOD SEPP |
| 9 October 2024 | Councillor briefing on scenarios |
| 8 Oct 2024 | Oath/ Affirmation of Office by Ku-ring-gai Councillors & election of Mayor Christine Kay and Deputy Mayor Kim Wheatley |
| Oct 2024 | Council has received · one DA and 2 pre-DAs with potential for about 150 new dwellings; · three Planning Proposals with potential for about 1,200 dwellings (two predating the TOD SEPP; and · some twenty-four (24) enquiries and/or requests for de-listing of Heritage items for which no specialist heritage advice has been provided in support. |
| Late Sept 2024 | At least 34 Expressions of Interest on the market, involving over 100 individual properties, with potential for up to 3,300 new apartments. |
| 14 Sept 2024 | Local Government Elections |
| 29 August 2024 | NSW Government advised Ku-ring-gai Council that it was not intending to support the IHO. |
| 13 August 2024 | Ordinary Meeting of Council under item C1 (decision #178) council resolved. Resolved: (Moved: Councillors Ngai/Wheatley) That in relation to the matters in this report, Council endorses the content of the Mayor’s late confidential memo dated 13 August 2024, a copy of which is initialed at the Meeting by the Mayor. For the Resolution: The Mayor, Councillor Ngai, Councillors Kay, Lennon, Smith, A. Taylor, G. Taylor, Ward and Wheatley Against the Resolution: Councillors Pettett and Spencer CARRIED The Mayor’s late confidential memo provided guidance for the mediation which was to take place in late September 2024. However, this mediation was delayed by the State Government and rescheduled for November. |
| July 2024 | Council resolved to seek an interim heritage order (IHO) for heritage conservation areas in the TOD precincts. |
| 13 May 2024 | The SEPP came into force largely unamended. Council also requested the studies, scenario analysis and community engagement be presented before councillors within nine months for a decision. |
| 8 May 2024 | Council resolved to commence studies around the four Transport Oriented Development precincts of Gordon, Killara, Lindfield, and Roseville. Council’s aim was to explore better resident outcomes than what was expected to be implemented under the TOD SEPP at the Extraordinary Meeting of Council. Mayoral Minute from Council’s Extraordinary Meeting of Council of 8 May 2024. A. That Council supports more housing but denounces the lack of planning and one-size-fits-all policies of the State Government. For the Resolution: The Mayor, Councillor Ngai, Councillors Lennon, Smith, A. Taylor, G. Taylor, Ward and Wheatley Against the Resolution: Councillor Spencer CARRIED B. That Council commence proceedings in the NSW Land and Environment Court concerning the Transport Oriented Development Amendment to the Housing SEPP, to seek declarations as to invalidity and orders restraining any associated breach of law, including the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY C. That Council commences studies around the four Transport Oriented Development precincts of Gordon, Killara, Lindfield and Roseville to explore better resident outcomes than what is currently in place (as of 13 May 2024). The studies, scenario analysis and community engagement should be presented before councillors within nine months for a decision. Such scenarios may include: i) Base Case – Identification of new infrastructure and amenities to support the state-imposed TOD precincts in their current form. ii) Minor Amendment Case – In addition to the Base Case, it will selectively spare key Heritage Conservation Areas as well as improve urban canopy outcomes by shifting dwellings towards key sites in the town centre. iii) More Extensive Case – In addition to the Base Case, a more ambitious effort to save multiple Heritage Conservation Areas as well as improve urban canopy outcomes by shifting dwellings towards non-heritage areas in the town centre. iv) As well as any other scenarios that Council staff choose to identify. CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY |