Secretary’s Environmental Assessment Requirements issued for preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Blue Mountains Wildlife Park State significant development application (SSD-79275458)
The Secretary’s Environmental Assessment Requirements (SEARs) have now been issued in response to the proponent’s lodging of a scoping report. Some three documents from the NSW Department of Planning are now present on its portal. They include feedback to the Department on the scoping report from other government bodies along with the Rural Fire Service and Blue Mountains City Council. For a complete list flick to this site’s Documents page.
“The subject State Significant Development proposal will flood the western portion of the site with built form and hardstand and, critically, it will extend well into the C2 zoned portion of the site and will not preserve a vegetated buffer between it and the highway. The C2 zoned portion of the site was never intended for development and should be revegetated to re-establish this strategically and ecologically important piece of bushland between the towns of Bullaburra and Wentworth Falls.” (Blue Mountains City Council submission to the SEAR’s process Feb 2025)
The next step in the assessment process will see the proponents responding to the Secretary’s Environmental Assessment Requirements (SEARs) requirements by drafting an Environmental Impact Statement and a State Significant Development proposal. These will then be exhibited for public submissions.
The proposal is listed on the NSW Planning Departments online portal as State significant development application (SSD-79275458)
