The former Mullumbimby Hospital site is rare flood-free land in Mullum.
We are looking at ways to use the site with a mix of housing and other community facilities and services.
Multiple parts are needed to achieve this including:
- Remediation works - Completed.
- A Site Strategy and Urban Design Protocol - adopted by Council in December 2022.
- A Planning Proposal - developed based on the Site Strategy and Urban Design Protocol, and proposes changes to zoning, land uses, and building height.
- An Enquiry by Design process - to develop community informed concept plan options.
- Feasibility Assessment – to inform refinement of the concept plans
- A site-specific Development Control Plan
- Community input
Planning Proposal
Changes to the Byron Local Environmental Plan 2014 (LEP) have now been made following completion of a Planning Proposal process.
The changes set a platform for the future design and development of the site and include:
- Changes to the zone of part of the site from SP2 Infrastructure (Health Services Facility) to R1 General Residential and a small area to C2 Environmental Conservation.
- Increased building height allowance from 9m to 11.5m for of the residential portion of the site.
- Additional permitted uses for the site to support complimentary and site-specific uses.
- An Affordable Housing Contributions Scheme for the development area.
- Listing the site in the Design Excellence provisions.
- Minor amendments for consistency of the above throughout the LEP.
Enquiry By Design
We held a community feedback session which fed into an Enquiry by Design workshop with key stakeholders last year to develop concept plans.
Stakeholders included:
- Community representatives
- Indigenous groups
- Community housing providers
- State Government
- Collective and committee members
Download to review the High level concepts of the 3 plans developed at the workshop(PDF, 3MB).
In 2024 Council is considering matters for the site such as:
- Its future tenure – who will live there and when.
- The percentage of housing types including affordable and rental housing.
- The portion of funds required from the site’s development to repay the contaminated land debt.
A Development Control Plan will then be prepared based on the preferred concept plan option.
We'll ask the community for feedback on the concept plan options and the Development Control Plan chapter.