CBD South, proposed to be Environment Effects Act 1978 located generally under the AMENDMENT OF ORDER UNDER Swanston Street road reserve SECTION 3(1) generally between Collins Street and Flinders Street, and including The declaration of the Melbourne Metro Rail interchange with Flinders Street Project (“the Project”) to be works” by “public Station; and Order of the Minister for Planning under Domain, proposed to be located section 3(1) of the Environment Effects Act generally under the road reserve of (gazetted on 3 September 2015) (“the 1978 St Kilda Road and Albert Road, Order”), is amended by inserting the and including train-tram following: interchange; The "public to which the Order relates eastern portals generally in the vicinity of broadly comprise the following: South Yarra Station, with the project tunnel tracks tying into the existing two nine-kilometre rail tunnels from South Cranbourne-Pakenham Line tracks west of Kensington to South Yarra to connect the Chapel Street; and Sunbury and Cranbourne-Pakenham relevant ancillary temporary and railway lines, to be used by electric trains permanent works to support the and generally following an alignment construction and operation of the tunnels, passing: stations and interchanges, including approximately west to east to turnbacks and emergency access shafts for Grattan Street; then safety purposes in a number of locations as along the vicinity of Swanston required, which may include Fawkner Park Street, Queen Victoria Gardens, St and the Domain parklands. Kilda Road, Fawkner Park and Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of key Project Toorak Road; elements. western portals generally in the vicinity of Kensington Station, with realignment of the existing Sunbury Line tracks to form an at-grade junction with the Project tunnel tracks; new underground stations at: Arden, proposed to be located east Excluded works of CityLink; The works specified in Schedule 1 hereof are Parkville, proposed to be located excluded from the declaration of “public generally in the Grattan St road works”. reserve, near the intersection of Royal Parade, and including tram interchange: CBD North, proposed to be located generally under the Swanston Street road reserve, Hon Richard MP generally between Franklin Street and Latrobe Street, and including Minister for Planning interchange with Melbourne Central Station; Date:
Environment Effects Act 1978 AMENDMENT OF ORDER UNDER SECTION 3(1) The declaration of the Melbourne Metro Rail Project (“the Project”) to be “public works” by Order of the Minister for Planning under section 3(1) of the Environment Effects Act 1978 (gazetted on 3 September 2015) (“the Order”), is amended by inserting the following: The "public to which the Order relates broadly comprise the following: two nine-kilometre rail tunnels from South Kensington to South Yarra to connect the Sunbury and Cranbourne-Pakenham railway lines, to be used by electric trains and generally following an alignment passing: approximately west to east to Grattan Street; then along the vicinity of Swanston Street, Queen Victoria Gardens, St Kilda Road, Fawkner Park and Toorak Road; western portals generally in the vicinity of Kensington Station, with realignment of the existing Sunbury Line tracks to form an at-grade junction with the Project tunnel tracks; new underground stations at: Arden, proposed to be located east of CityLink; Parkville, proposed to be located generally in the Grattan St road reserve, near the intersection of Royal Parade, and including interchange: CBD North, proposed to be located generally under the Swanston Street road reserve, generally between Franklin Street and Latrobe Street, and including interchange with Melbourne Central Station; CBD South, proposed to be located generally under the Swanston Street road reserve generally between Collins Street and Flinders Street, and including interchange with Flinders Street Station; and Domain, proposed to be located generally under the road reserve of St Kilda Road and Albert Road, and including train-tram interchange; eastern portals generally in the vicinity of South Yarra Station, with the project tunnel tracks tying into the existing Cranbourne-Pakenham Line tracks west of Chapel Street; and relevant ancillary temporary and permanent works to support the construction and operation of the tunnels, stations and interchanges, including turnbacks and emergency access shafts for safety purposes in a number of locations as required, which may include Fawkner Park and the Domain parklands. Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of key Project elements. Excluded works The works specified in Schedule 1 hereof are excluded from the declaration of “public works”. Hon Richard MP Minister for Planning Date: tram