Al-Faisal College Lakemba campus remains uncompleted after stop work order from Canterbury-Bankstown Council
The construction for a new primary school in Sydney’s southwest could restart after a two-year halt following a stop work order being issued by Canterbury-Bankstown Council.
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The construction for a new primary school in Sydney’s southwest could resume after a two-year halt following a stop work order was issued by Canterbury-Bankstown Council.
The proposed site for Al-Faisal College on 65-71 Croydon St in Lakemba was approved in September, 2018, by the Land and Environment Court after council refused a 2016 application due to “adverse acoustic impacts on adjoining residential properties.”
The Land and Environment Court approved the site for a primary school to cater for 350 students and 14 staff, including the redevelopment of adjoining land at 67 and 69 Croydon St as car park and drop off pick-up area.
However, Canterbury Bankstown Council issued a stop work order in November, 2021, due to a “number of works occurring contrary to a development consent”.
A council spokeswoman said the development at 69 Croydon St, Lakemba, has been highly contentious and the subject of several court matters.
“These works were at odds with what had previously been issued by the Land and Environment Court of NSW.”
The spokeswoman said a judgment by the Court of Appeal on May 24 allowed for certain works to be carried out at the site.
“These works were described as benign in terms of environmental impacts and for the purpose of making the existing building comply with the relevant provisions of the Building Code of Australia,” they said.
Planning Ingenuity Pty Ltd have now lodged a request for minor works to complete the primary school “which is in large part approved and constructed”.
“The proposed works comprising this aspect of the proposal are minor in scope and relate to the works required to ensure compliance with Building Code Australia,” documents state.
Some of the alterations include complete fire caulking and sealing to the service penetrations and construction joints in some areas, installing smoke seals to doorways and removing construction and waste material.
The application also requested approval to replace the existing decorative front fence and gates with a 1.8m high metal palisade fence and gates for natural surveillance, partially fill the basement area and finalise construction on the waste and mechanical room.
The site, which is where a bowling club once stood, has existing approval for the south and east areas of the school building for playground use and the application has also requested for landscaping to begin on the site.
Al-Faisal is an Islamic college founded in 1998 and has three campuses at Liverpool, Auburn and Campbelltown catering for over 2,000 students.
Al-Faisal College was contacted for comment.
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