39Contaminated land

39 Contaminated land

39 Contaminated land

(1) The Council must not grant consent to an application for a residential, child care centre or commercial use of a parcel of land which has previously been occupied by an industrial use, or of any part of the site of the former Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children at Camperdown (being the land to which South Sydney Local Environmental Plan No 139 applied) unless it has considered the following matters—

(a) the identification of any potential contamination, based on details of site history and any other available information, and

(b) the need for contamination treatment procedures such as further testing, and the need for remediation and the preparation of validation plans.

(2) Before it grants consent for any remediation of land, the Council must consider the following—

(a) a report on sampling procedures and testing results for the land,

(b) remediation plans for the land,

(c) validation plans for the land.

(3) For the purposes of this clause—

remediation plan means the details describing the remediation activity such as the objectives of the plan, the remediation methodology proposed and the targets, timetable, quality, quality control procedures and precautions to be taken during remediation of the land.

validation plan means the guidelines detailing the methodology by which the applicant or its consultant intends verifying that the remediation work has been satisfactorily carried out. It contains the requirements for post-rehabilitation testing and the justification for it. Validation plans may be included within a remediation plan.