About the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
The EIS assesses the potential environmental and social impacts of the Western Harbour Tunnel and Warringah Freeway Upgrade.
The EIS is now on display and you have the opportunity to review the assessments and provide feedback on our findings. This time, your submissions will go to the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE) and they will ask us to address your feedback. Once they are satisfied we have addressed all the feedback appropriately and we have responded to the submissions, they will make a decision on whether or not to approve the project.
What’s included in the EIS?
The Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000 outline the requirements for EISs for State significant projects in NSW. These pieces of legislation contain requirements in relation to the Secretary’s Environmental Assessment Requirements (SEARS) which you can view on the DPIE Major Projects portal at www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/major-projects/project/10451. As part of the SEARS, we have assessed and provided information on topics such as:
- Project description
- Strategic context
- Stakeholder and community consultation
- Construction work
- Traffic and transport
- Noise and vibration
- Air quality
- Human health
- Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal heritage
- Biodiversity
- Geology, soils and groundwater
- Socio-economic
- Urban design and visual
- Cumulative impacts.
The EIS also includes strategies to avoid, mitigate and manage the potential impact of the project.
Consultation and engagement has been carried out with stakeholders during the design development process and
environmental assessment to ensure key potential impacts have been identified at an early stage, and where
possible, avoided, or appropriate mitigation measures developed.
We welcome your feedback at
all stages of the planning process. To make a submission on the EIS, please click
here.
