Save western Sydney’s former ADI Site. Website of the ADI Residents Action Group
Documents, reports & maps

We have gathered together some of the documentation, reports, maps and other material relevant to the development of the ADI Site and to our campaign. 

 

There are three main documents that guide the development of the ADI Site:

Sydney Regional Environmental Plan 30 - St Marys; its associated planning strategy, St Marys Environmental Planning Strategy 2000 and the St Marys Development Agreement a legal agreement between Lend Lease, the State Government, Penrith and Blacktown Councils.

The State Government, Penrith and Blacktown Councils are the consent authorities for this development and their assessment of Precinct and other development plans lodged by Lend Lease is largely governed by these planning instruments.

As opponents of the development we are critical of SREP 30 because it simply has  been authored by the NSW Planning Department to ensure a development outcome and to make difficult any community opposition or legal challenge. It allows Lend Lease to get away with too much. This has been demonstrated by the determination of Lend Leases Eastern Precinct Plan by Blacktown Council.

In hindsight we can see how critical the drafting of SREP 30 was and why the 97% of public submissions that opposed the draft SREP 30 were out rightly ignored by the State Government. 

SREP 30 was gazetted in January 2001. The decision by the Federal Government in October 2001- two weeks before the Federal Election - to protect all of the 828 hectares listed in the Register of the National Estate from development meant that SREP 30 would need to be amended.

Why? 

The State Government - demonstrating a complete lack of concern for endangered Cumberland Plain vegetation - ignored the fact that  828 ha of the ADI Site had been listed in the Register of the National Estate by the Australian Heritage Commission in 1999. Despite this listing the State gazetted its SREP 30 which only zoned 630 ha of the 1535 ha site for conservation (Regional Park). The increase in conservation land by the  Federal Government - who at that time owned the land - changed the boundaries of the zoning maps and reduced the area that could be developed meaning Lend Leases development was reduced from 8000 houses to around 5000. 

In November 2005 the NSW Government put an amended Draft SREP 30 on public exhibition. In April 2006 an amended SREP 30 was gazetted adding a paltry 3 hectares of land to the Regional Park.

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