Gazettal of Amendment for BIMC

MEDIA RELEASE 16 June 2023

Plans to amend Council’s Local Environmental Plan to increase the permissible height and floor space ratio to facilitate the Bathurst Integrated Medical Centre (BIMC) and associated car parking have been approved by the State Government.

Amendment 21 to the Bathurst Regional Local Environmental Plan (LEP) 2014, relating to the proposed BIMC and George St car park sites, was gazetted on 2 June 2023. The amended controls will permit, with consent, the future development of a six-storey building and four-storey carpark for these purposes only under the NSW Government’s Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

Mayor Robert Taylor welcomed the decision and said he looked forward to the project progressing.

“I would like to emphasise that this does not approve the BIMC or the car park development,” he said.

“Now that planning controls enabling a new height and floor space ratio have been approved, the next step in the process would be for the developers to lodgea Development Application. The development application would be classified as being of State Significance which would mean it will be assessed and determined by the State Government. Importantly there will be further opportunity for the community to comment on the development application when it is placed on public exhibition by the NSW Department of Planning and Environment.”

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