facility precinct · 1 meetings
Ballina Hospital
Mentions
- Core location for a new precinct plan action.
- Shapes where housing, jobs, rural land use and precinct planning can proceed across the shire.
- Replaces older planning documents with the new strategic framework.
- May affect local redevelopment, services, traffic and housing supply.
- Updated planning controls may influence future housing, jobs and development locations across Ballina Shire.
- Potential expansion and precinct planning areas, including Alstonville, Ballina Hospital surrounds and Tamarind Drive, may affect nearby residents and landholders.
Decisions
Local Strategic Planning Statement adopted with amendments
Council adopted the Ballina Shire Local Strategic Planning Statement 2025-2046 and Russellton Estate addendum, with amendments to expand the Alstonville employment area, change Newrybar wording, refine precinct planning around Ballina Hospital, adjust the Tamarind Drive growth area, add rural land use principles, create a new rural policy consolidation action, and remove several SUGAs for further examination.
Shapes where housing, jobs, rural land use and precinct planning can proceed across the shire.
Growth and strategic planning documents to be repealed
The Ballina Shire Growth Management Strategy 2012 and West Ballina Planning Study and Structure Plan 2010 are to be repealed after the revised LSPS is published on the NSW Planning Portal.
Replaces older planning documents with the new strategic framework.
Topics
Specific precinct planning and growth-area changes
The LSPS amendment changes Action 4.1 to prepare a precinct plan around Ballina Hospital and nearby sites, and updates the Tamarind Drive area for approximately 4ha of residential development potential in line with updated flood modelling.
May affect local redevelopment, services, traffic and housing supply.
Meetings