Landcom, the NSW Government-owned land and property developer, has made public a 15-year plan to build a town centre with more than 3900 homes in Sydney’s west.
At least three public forums—two in-person and another online—will be held this month to garner community ideas and support for the town centre, broadly known as Glenfield Precinct.
The public exhibition will outline concept plans for the first stage of a town centre of up to 12 storeys, 3900 homes, a new primary school, and at least six sporting fields across about 108 hectares.
The precinct will feature a mix of detached houses, terraces, townhouses and apartments. Landcom says new planning controls will deliver up to 5 per cent affordable housing throughout the project.
The public exhibition is part of the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure’s aim to make Glenfield—15km from Campbelltown and 40km from the centre of Sydney—the south-west’s “premier regional sporting and education destination”.
To that end, the department rezoned Glenfield in July of 2021, enabling up to 7000 new homes. The rezoning is expected to create about 30ha of additional public open space, as well as 2900 new jobs.
Those plans included retaining about 50ha of agricultural land for Hurlstone Agricultural High School—12 months ago work began on a $40-million upgrade of the school’s boarding facilities, adding another 180 student beds, dormitory monitor rooms and permanent staff residences.
The precinct development sits in the Glenfield-to-Macarthur urban renewal corridor, which the NSW Government says is “being planned as a network of open space, new homes, agricultural education, community facilities, jobs and services”.
The town centre—with access to the M5 Motorway and Hume Highway—will be built next to the Glenfield Train Station, a major interchange with connections to Sydney, Campbelltown, Liverpool, Parramatta and eventually to the new Western Sydney Airport.
The online development monitor BCI Central estimates the cost of the 15-year development could reach $1.4 billion.
Landcom acquired the land from the Department of Education in April this year.
A spokesperson said the first development application to demolish outlying buildings and sheds was lodged a month later.
They said bulk earthworks and remediation development applications would be lodged in the second half of this year, with the first subdivision applications expected to be lodged by the start of 2025.
“Civil works are expected to begin in 2026 with the first housing sites available for purchase in 2027, subject to relevant approvals.” The spokesperson said.
“The community will have further opportunities to have their say as the project progresses.”
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