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Not This Plan

Object to the NSW Government's Edgecliff-Woollahra rezoning.

Use this page to write your objection in your own words and lodge it on the NSW Planning Portal in a few minutes.

You don't need to live in Woollahra or Edgecliff. Anyone concerned about this plan can object.

Write your objection

Say what you think, in whatever words come out. Typos, ums and half-sentences are fine. This page tidies them into a clear objection that still sounds like you. Then you lodge it yourself on the NSW Planning Portal, a few steps down this page.

1Your position

This decides what your objection asks for.

I object to the NSW Government's plan.Your objection sets out why the plan should not go ahead as exhibited.I object to the NSW Government's plan, and support Council's alternative instead.Your objection sets out why, and asks the Department to use Council's approach as the basis for the first stage of any future rezoning.

2Say it in your own words

Rough is good. Talk like you're explaining it to a friend. You'll get to read and change the result before you lodge it.

Nothing you type or say here is stored anywhere.

3Your objection

Now lodge it on the NSW Planning Portal

This is the step that counts. The button copies your objection and opens the portal in a new tab. Then follow the seven steps below.

Write your objection above first, and this button copies it for you.

Open the Planning Portal

The screenshots show what you'll see on the portal. They're examples, not buttons.

1Scroll to the bottom of the page and open “Make a submission”.
2Tick “I am making a personal submission”.
3Enter your first name, last name, email, and suburb with postcode.
4Tick “I would like my name and personal contact details to remain confidential” if you'd prefer your name not be published. Your objection still counts.
5Under “Please provide your view on the project”, tick “I object to it”. This is the one that matters. Even if you support Council's alternative, you are objecting to the NSW Government's plan, and that is how the Department counts it.
6Paste your objection into the “Submission” box. Skip the file upload.
7Tick “I agree to the above statement”, tick “I'm not a robot”, press Submit.

Your submission will be published on the Planning Portal with contact details removed. Keep anything personal out of the text if you tick confidential.

The NSW Government's plan and Council's alternative

Council's render of the NSW Government's proposed towers across the precinct

Renders: Woollahra Council · Explore the interactive 3D map →

What the NSW Government's plan does

Up to 10,000 new homes, about 20,400 more people, in an area already among the densest in NSW
142 towers over 9 storeys across the whole precinct: 80 over 12 storeys, 19 over 20, 7 over 30, on Council's count
310 contributory heritage buildings affected and 191 likely demolished in the Woollahra conservation area, on Council's count
About 25 per cent of tree canopy, more than 900 trees, lost or significantly impacted, on Council's count
Council's independent traffic review found the 10,000-home scenario impractical: multiple intersections fail and the fixes aren't achievable here
More than 2,100 extra school-aged children forecast, and no school project anywhere in the $1.3 billion infrastructure program
Only 2 hectares of new open space, with no certainty it gets delivered
Recent new apartments here are 150 to 200 square metre luxury product, often $5 million plus, and the plan asks for only 3 per cent affordable housing on most sites
All new controls switched on at once, before the station is built or the infrastructure to support it is in place

What Council's alternative does

2,200 to 3,600 new homes, still a big increase, concentrated near the two stations
Height follows the land: tallest at Edgecliff Centre and the station block, low elsewhere
2 hectares of new public open space and 6,200 square metres of community floorspace
Concentrates change near the station so fewer heritage streets and contributory buildings are lost. Council is open that some loss remains.
Built form and setbacks chosen to protect existing tree canopy and deep soil
Council recommends staging the rezoning so new controls only start once infrastructure is resolved and funded
Conditional on Woollahra Station actually being built

Council's alternative is not on exhibition. The only submission you can make is on the NSW Government's plan. Council's own formal submission recommends the plan must not proceed as exhibited, and that its Alternative Approach be the basis for any first stage of rezoning. Supporting that is a reason to object.

Planning Portal exhibition page Council's Alternative Approach WARR: major issues of concern WARR: visual impact of the NSW Government's plan

Seven minutes on what the NSW Government's plan means

Watch on Vimeo (opens in a new tab)

Write your objection

1Your position

2Say it in your own words

3Your objection

Now lodge it on the NSW Planning Portal

The NSW Government's plan and Council's alternative

What the NSW Government's plan does

Seven minutes on what the NSW Government's plan means

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What gets lost

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Density done right

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