Part 1 – Objectives and Intended Outcomes

The objectives of this Planning Proposal are to:

• Support the growth of Bankstown City Centre into a health, academic, research and training precinct and fulfil its role as a regionally significant CBD and Strategic Centre • Increase employment generating uses and floor space and retain existing employment land uses to support Council’s higher LSPS target of 25,000 jobs by 2036 (an additional 14,000 jobs) • Provide additional capacity in planning controls to support Council’s LSPS target to deliver an additional 12,500 dwellings by 2036 • Achieve a higher benchmark for development in relation to energy and water efficiency to meet

Council’s target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 • Ensure development in Bankstown City Centre commits to design excellence • Encourage a high quality and activated public domain with good solar access • Increase active and public transport use and reduce car dependence • Increase longer term affordable housing provision to accommodate more very low, low and moderate-income households in the CBD • Provide a diverse range of sizes and types of community infrastructure to promote community health, cohesion and well-being and make Bankstown an attractive place to work • Unlock underutilised public land holdings within the City Centre for redevelopment, delivering new housing and employment floor space.

The intended outcomes of this Planning Proposal are:

• Protect existing employment floorspace by maintaining a minimum required FSR for employment uses, or equivalent to the existing employment use on the site, whichever is greater • Establish building envelope controls that maintain adequate solar access to significant parks and public spaces in winter • Require a proportion of new residential developments above a certain yield to deliver affordable housing • Set controls which incentivise new developments to achieve energy and water efficiency performance over legislated targets • Provide incentive height and FSR to deliver community facilities on certain sites, 3% affordable housing in the B4 Mixed Use Zone or 4% in the R4 High Density Residential Zone (phased in over three years) or more than 50% of employment generating uses • Facilitate employment growth by requiring certain B4 Mixed Use Zoned sites to deliver a minimum of 50% employment generating uses and introduce a B3 Commercial Core zone. • Provide an FSR bonus of 0.25-0.5:1 to deliver higher performance residential and commercial buildings in relation to water and energy. • Facilitate and regulate the delivery of underground floor space in the City Centre core.