The Barangaroo Delivery Authority has allowed Lend Lease to lodge modifications to its plans for Barangaroo in contradiction of its own project delivery deed which appears to restrict Lend Lease from applying for residential apartments in the hotel or in the public recreation space.

The document is on the BDA's contracts register and was confirmed as late as April 2013 by both parties. It has not been rescinded .

The decision to drop apartments in the hotel was taken in 2010 at the height of the furore over the proposed hotel over the water. Credit:Dallas Kilponen

The decision to drop apartments in the hotel was taken in 2010 at the height of the furore over the proposed hotel over the water. The clause in the development deed prevented Lend Lease from including apartments in any future plans for the hotel development, then located over the water, or in the public recreation zone – the new proposed location of James Packer's proposed Crown resort.