State Environmental Planning Policy (Transport and Infrastructure) 2021

Development for the purpose of health services facilities may be carried out by any person with consent on land in a prescribed zone.

Development for any of the following purposes may be carried out by or on behalf of a public authority with consent on State land if the development is carried out within the boundaries of an existing health services facility—

health research (or development) industries, including medical research (or development) industries,

high technology industry for an industrial activity that involves biological, pharmaceutical, medical or paramedical systems, goods or components,

any of the following premises that service patients or staff of, or visitors to, the health services facility (or staff of, or visitors to, other premises within the boundaries of the facility)—

centre-based child care facilities,

commercial premises,

community facilities,

information and education facilities,

recreation areas, recreation facilities (indoor) or recreation facilities (outdoor),

residential accommodation,

a building or place used for the training or education of health and other professionals.

Consent must not be granted for development of a kind referred to in subsection (2)(c) (other than development for the purposes of a centre-based child care facility) unless the consent authority is satisfied that the Planning Secretary has certified in a site compatibility certificate that, in the Planning Secretary’s opinion, the development is compatible with the surrounding land uses.

Nothing in this section—

prevents a consent authority from—

granting consent for development on a site by reference to site and design features that are more stringent than those identified in a site compatibility certificate for the same site, or

refusing to grant consent for development by reference to the consent authority’s own assessment of the compatibility of the development with the surrounding land uses, or

otherwise limits the matters to which a consent authority may have regard in determining a development application for development of a kind referred to in subsection (2).