{"id":36623,"date":"2026-06-23T03:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/36623\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T03:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:48:09","slug":"western-sydneys-196m-housing-precinct-clears-next-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/36623\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Sydney\u2019s $196m Housing Precinct Clears Next Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

A two-decade industrial-to-residential redevelopment story in Western Sydney has moved into its next building stage as approval is granted for the central piece of a 558-apartment precinct.<\/p>\n

The $57-million Stage 3 consent allows 30 Auburn Road Pty Ltd\u2014owned by Raad Holdings\u2014to build Building C and the central public open space at 30-46 Auburn Road, Regents Park [rendering at top], about 22km west of Sydney\u2019s CBD.<\/p>\n

The stage adds 142 apartments, three basement levels and a 106-place childcare centre to a project shaped by years of density debate, council resistance and NSW affordable-housing incentives.<\/p>\n

Approved by the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure on June 15, it follows approvals for Stage 1 works and Stage 2\u2019s Buildings A and B, putting three of the project\u2019s four stages through the state planning system.<\/p>\n

Available planning material does not identify a construction start.<\/p>\n

Stage 4, covering Buildings D and E on the western side of the site, is the final stage still to be advanced.<\/p>\n

Building C, designed by Smith & Tzannes, rises part nine, part 10 and part 12 storeys on the southernmost part of the 2.1ha holding, near Auburn Road, the rail corridor and Magney Reserve.<\/p>\n

\"A\u25b2 A Smith & Tzannes rendering of Building C, the $57-million third stage of the 30-46 Auburn Road precinct at Regents Park. <\/p>\n

Its apartment mix comprises 11 one-bedroom, 86 two-bedroom and 45 three-bedroom apartments, with parking for 198 cars, 20 motorcycles and 53 bicycles.<\/p>\n

The wider five-building project has an estimated development cost of $196 million and 55,042sq m of gross floor area.<\/p>\n

It includes a 3000sq m publicly accessible central park, ground-floor retail, a new internal street network and 708 car spaces.<\/p>\n

At least 15 per cent of the development\u2019s gross floor area is to be provided as affordable rental housing and managed by Pacific Community Housing for at least 15 years.<\/p>\n

The wider project has shifted sharply since it was first filed in 2022 as a build-to-rent scheme<\/a> with 543 apartments and about half of them affordable.<\/p>\n

\"Aerial\u25b2 An aerial view of the 2.1ha former industrial site at 30-46 Auburn Road, Regents Park, beside the rail corridor.<\/p>\n

The applicant later recast the project as in-fill affordable housing after NSW introduced height and floor-space bonuses for schemes providing at least 10 to 15 per cent affordable housing.<\/p>\n

Project documents said the change reduced the height of Buildings D and E while increasing Building C.<\/p>\n

The site, a quarter-circle parcel on the western side of Auburn Road, was rezoned from industrial to residential in April 2005 but never developed for its intended use.<\/p>\n

A 2005 proposal for 86 homes did not proceed.<\/p>\n

Planning proposals pursued from 2013 sought floor-space ratios ranging from 2:1 to 4:1 before final controls allowed 2:1, with additional uplift through the Housing SEPP.<\/p>\n

\"A\u25b2 A Smith & Tzannes design report image showing the planned built form and scale of the Regents Park precinct, including Stage 3\u2019s Building C.<\/p>\n

The Canterbury-Bankstown Council did not support the applicant-led density increase, and the Sydney South Planning Panel was appointed planning proposal authority in 2021 after the council no longer accepted the role.<\/p>\n

Planning documents described the site as a large consolidated 2ha holding used for industrial and warehouse purposes, with ageing saw-tooth-roof structures and areas used for storage.<\/p>\n

The project website said the proposal would \u201ctransform an underused block of industrial land\u201d in Regents Park \u201cto a landscaped residential community\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A two-decade industrial-to-residential redevelopment story in Western Sydney has moved into its next building stage as approval is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5460,23,5745,7898,855,12417,355,857,6154,7902,3035,2975,5461,247,265,860],"class_list":["post-36623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sydney","tag-apartments","tag-australia","tag-childcare","tag-commercial","tag-development-applications","tag-living","tag-new-south-wales","tag-planning-approvals","tag-project","tag-project-update","tag-real-estate","tag-residential","tag-social-affordable-housing","tag-sydney","tag-western-sydney","tag-zoning-density"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}