Australian Capital Territory
Planning and Development (Draft Variation No 347) Public Availability Notice 2015
Notifiable Instrument NI2015—428
made under the
Planning and Development Act 2007, section 70 (Public notice of documents given to Minister) and section 71 (Public availability notice—notice of interim effect etc)

The planning and land authority, within the Environment and Planning Directorate (EPD), is making available for public inspection Draft Variation No 347, including the related documents listed below, which has been given to the Minister for approval:
•	background papers
•	a report on consultation, including:
o	a written report setting out the issues raised in any written comments (including consultation comments) about the variation;
o	a written report about the Authority’s consultation with the public, the National Capital Authority, the Conservator of Flora and Fauna, the Environment Protection Authority, the Heritage Council and the land custodian being the Territory and Municipal Services Directorate

The draft variation was prepared to:
•	broaden the Territory Plan uses allowed on the university site by permitting merit track assessable development associated with the operation of a contemporary university 
•	limit overall building height restrictions
•	incorporate additional design provisions and general requirements
•	limit the scale of non-student residential development to 3300 dwellings
•	limit the gross floor area (GFA) per SHOP to 200m2 and per supermarket to 1000m2
•	limit the GFA for SHOP (including supermarket) to 4000m2 for entire site
•	limit the scale of non-university related public agency and business agency to 2000m2
•	limit the scale of non-university related office space to 5000m2 per office
•	limit non-university related office space to 30,000m2 for the entire site
•	allow for a more qualitative approach to assessing multi unit housing.

Draft Variation No 347 and related documents are available for viewing online at www.act.gov.au/recommendedvariations and at the EPD shopfront at 16 Challis Street, Dickson from Monday to Friday (except public holidays) between 8:30am and 4:30pm.

Effect of the draft variation 
Section 72 of the Planning and Development Act 2007 does not apply in relation to the draft variation and therefore it does not have interim effect.  The current Territory Plan will continue to apply while the variation remains in draft form.

Jim Corrigan
Delegate of the Planning and Land Authority
23 July 2015