Ku-ring-gai Council presented information about the five rezoning scenarios around Roseville, Lindfield, Killara and Gordon stations with community consultation closing on 17 December 2024.

About that Public Exhibition

Ku-ring-gai Council’s alternative housing scenarios to the Transport Oriented Development (TOD) was put on Public Exhibition for the community to comment at www.krg.nsw.gov.au/housingfeedback until Tuesday 17 December 2024 at midnight. You can read Council background notes HERE:

Council’s planning principles

Ku-ring-gai Council has developed seven principles to achieve this. These are:

• Support local centre revitalisation
• Avoid environmentally sensitive areas
• Minimise heritage item impacts
• Preserve heritage conservation areas
• Minimise tree canopy impacts
• Manage transition impacts
• Ensure appropriate building heights

Scenario 3b – Preserve, Intensify & Expand

• Preserves all heritage areas but to limit building heights in town centres to a maximum of 20 storeys. Spreads apartment buildings further from stations.
  
  
• Under this scenario, as in Scenario 3a, all properties in Heritage Conservation Areas (HCAs) within 400m of stations are protected from high-rise development. This will in turn help protect sensitive environmental areas and existing tree canopy coverage.
  
  
• Like in Scenario 3a, dwellings previously earmarked to be located in HCAs, and resulting from limits on the density of new apartment buildings, will be transferred to commercial centres. In addition, as in Scenario 3a, there will be a distribution of dwellings between these centres to limit the heights of buildings in smaller centres. 
  
  
• However, this scenario differs from Scenario 3a in two aspects. 
  
  
• Firstly, to limit building heights in centres, some proposed dwellings have been shifted from these centres to suitable residential areas located between 400m and 800m from stations. By doing this, maximum building heights are lower in this scenario, compared to Scenario 3a. For example, Scenario 3a proposes a maximum height of 45 storeys in Gordon, while this scenario proposes a maximum of 20 storeys.
  
  
• Secondly, a small area of Gordon east of the station has also been protected as it has been identified as a possible extension to HCAs. This change will also ensure there is a contiguous area east of Gordon station which is protected from high-rise development.
  
  
• Will deliver 23,200 new dwellings that the NSW Government requires Ku-ring-gai Council to deliver over the next 15 years.
  
  
• Find out more about the scenario in the explanation below (click to enlarge). Alternatively download this map and use the zoom function in the reader for more detailed information.

References

Options released to deliver new housing through good planning, 20 November 2024