SITE LOCATION AND SETTING

2.2 Surrounding Land Uses

Port Botany has been developed for industrial purposes relating to shipping and port based activities.
The majority of companies with operations in the Port Botany area involve industries relating to
container imports/exports and logistics, petroleum products, liquid petroleum gas and liquid chemicals
and include:
Qenos Pty Ltd;
Origin Energy Pty Ltd;
Vopak Terminals Australia Pty Ltd.
The closest residential development to the site is that of Phillip Bay, approximately 1.5km from the site.

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THE PROPOSAL

3 The Proposal
3.1 Background to the Proposal
Terminals Pty Ltd is an Australian company providing service to industry in the form of bulk liquid
storage facilities leased to customers at strategic Australian port locations. These port locations are at
Port Botany (Sydney), Coode Island (Melbourne), Corio (Geelong) and Osborne (South Australia).
Whilst each of these facilities is wholly owned by Terminals, they are situated on land that is leased
from the relevant Port Authority.
Port Botany is one of the three major ports in New South Wales with one of the predominant trades
being petroleum products, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and liquid chemicals. The majority of
industries in the Port Botany industrial region are involved in the storage and distribution of these
products and are located on Friendship Road in the vicinity of the existing and proposed Terminals
storage facility.
Terminals have owned and operated the existing bulk liquid storage and handling facility for hazardous
and non-hazardous bulk liquids at Port Botany since 1979. The original facility has undergone three
subsequent expansions, each involving the construction of additional storage capacity. A summary of
these previous development applications is provided in the table below.
Table 1: Previous Development Applications

Number of Additional Date of DA and ref

Stage
tanks Capacity (m) (where available) Comments
1 20 22,350 1979
(original (original
DA) capacity)

2 12 5,810 1980

3 28 18,820 1987

4 4 800 1989 (840/45/D

161/88)

5 12 (actually 20,250 1997 (DA 249/96) Consent for expansion of an

constructed one (actually existing bulk liquid storage facility
- Tank 270) constructed with associated loading/unloading
5,000 facilities, pipelines, safety systems,
landscaping and fencing.
Works known as the Stage 5.
This development was legally
commenced by the construction of
1 x 5,000 m3 tank (Tank 270) and
the construction of a large hard
surfaced area surrounded by a
bund wall.

5A Additional 2 Additional September 2009 The proposed modification involves

20,000 (DA 249/96 Mod 1) the installation of 2 larger tanks,
each with a capacity of 10,000m3,
rather than the approved 12 smaller
tanks; increasing the storage
capacity from 20,250m3 to
25,000m3. This development was
named as Stage 5A.

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