New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WOLLONGONG LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2009 - REG 7.15

7.15 Wollongong innovation campus

(1) The objectives of this clause are as follows--

(a) to permit the establishment of a research and development campus that includes a hotel, student and campus related residential accommodation and necessary support services and facilities,

(b) to provide an area where enterprises that carry out research and development as an integral part of their operations can be located,

(c) to promote collaborative research and development between users of the land to which this clause applies and the University of Wollongong and other enterprises in the Illawarra region,

(d) to promote links between the University of Wollongong's research activities and the initiatives of the business community,

(e) to ensure that the development of the site is undertaken in a manner that demonstrates design of a high quality with respect to the context of the site, scale, built form and density of the development, resources, energy and water efficiency, landscape, amenity, safety and security, social dimensions and aesthetics,

(f) to ensure that development of the site is in harmony with the coastal and foreshore landscape,

(g) to permit the provision of university related facilities including student and campus related residential accommodation and support services, incidental or ancillary to research and development activities.

(2) This clause applies to land shown as being within the Wollongong innovation campus on the Wollongong Innovation Campus Map .

(3) Development consent must not be granted for the subdivision of land to which this clause applies unless the consent authority is satisfied that the subdivision is for the purpose only of defining the boundaries of lots that are to be the subject of leases.

(4) Development consent must not be granted to development for the purposes of building on land to which this clause applies if the gross floor area of the building would be greater than 135,000 square metres.