City of Sydney
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New spaces for people walking and riding to allow safer travel between workplaces, schools, health care and the city centre.
The NSW Government has extended the date of temporary changes to the planning system until 31 March 2022.
In March 2020 the government amended the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act to include a new regulation allowing for a range of new ministerial orders in response to the pandemic.
The changes allow the Minister for Planning and Public Spaces to make an order for development to be carried out without the normal planning approval to protect the health, safety and welfare of the public during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Since then, the NSW Government has issued ministerial orders under the act including:
For full details visit the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment website.
The City of Sydney and the NSW Government are creating new spaces for people walking and riding to allow for safer travel between workplaces, schools, health care and the city centre. These include 6 new pop-up cycleway connections.
These important new bike links, detailed below will enable people to ride and free up space on public transport and roads. This will help the community to return to work and local businesses safely, supporting NSW’s economic recovery.
We're working with Transport for NSW to install the cycleways as fast as we can. Unfortunately, this means we can’t consult the community like we normally do. We’ll consult the community on the future of the streets before anything becomes permanent.