Well it does exist. The Response to Submissions (RTS) has finally been lodged with the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE). The RTS is 471 pages, so another epic document produced by AECOM.

After a cursory quick browse there are a few things that stand out, so closer inspection should be ‘enlightening’.

The first thing you will notice is that AECOM gave this document to Renew Estate on 25 October 2018, so as we suspected they sat on this till they could off-load the project.

The SSAG has said all along that Renew Estate was misleading the community and the DPIE for well over 18 months about the delay to the RTS. The delay was supposedly due to ‘further archaeological studies‘ being finalised. The RTS does not contain any ‘further archaeological salvage program‘ information that we can find. Perhaps it is still being finalised!

On the same topic, on page 114 it mentions that … ‘The proponent has undergone consultation with DPIE to discuss timing of the archaeological
salvage program… see letter to DPIE attached in Appendix D). There is no letter to DPIE that appears in Appendix D about this issue.

We would certainly welcome feedback from anyone on anything they uncover in the RTS, just to make sure nothing is missed. As the author of both the EIS and RTS are the same, we are sure there will be plenty to find.

Below is the link to the DPIE Springdale page. Then click on Response to Submissions and there is also the Amendment Report.

https://www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/major-projects/project/9756