August 2024

Landcom is working with Transport for NSW (the landowner) to transform the northeastern part of the Wentworth Point peninsula with new homes and open space linked to schools, community facilities, shops and the Parramatta River waterfront.

Updated plans for mixed-use development at Wentworth Point

To provide room for the new Wentworth Point High School, shared open space and peninsula park, and provide for much-needed housing, we've been working to update the project site's planning controls. 

We're preparing a State Significant Development Application (SSDA) for a concept masterplan for mixed-use development on a smaller part of the site to what was previously approved. The SSDA is for a design concept, including proposed building heights, gross floor area and land uses.

We've sought to balance previous community and stakeholder feedback with planning considerations including the site context and constraints, housing and sustainability targets, and feasibility, to deliver a new liveable and well-designed mixed-use neighbourhood. 

Updated mixed-use development plans for 9 Burroway Road include:

• a waterfront walkway connecting the peninsula park with Burroway Road
• a new shopping plaza
• two building complexes with ground floor shops and nine-storey apartment buildings above (reduced from 27 storeys)
• around 400 homes, including 15% affordable rental housing for people on low to moderate incomes, such as key workers.

Have your say

We invite you to share your feedback to inform the SSDA for the site. 

Complete our online survey by Wednesday 11 September 2024 or join us at our upcoming community information session to meet the team, ask questions and have your say. Light refreshments will be provided.

When: Saturday 31 August 2024 - drop in anytime between 10.30am and 12.30pm

Where: Wentworth Point Community Centre and Library, 10 Footbridge Boulevard

Restoring endangered saltmarsh habitat

We got underway with our saltmarsh restoration program at the tip of the peninsula in March this year by clearing rubbish, removing weeds and installing erosion controls.

In June we planted around 15,000 saltmarsh plants to support their survival as an endangered ecological community, helping to preserve biodiversity, protect the riverbank, capture carbon, improve water quality, and support fisheries.

We're maintaining the saltmarsh with regular rubbish and weed removal to help the new plants thrive.

Park construction update

Earlier this year the Central Sydney Planning Panel approved our application to modify the existing development approval for the site, enabling other works on the peninsula park and shared open space to move forward. 

Timing for the next stage of park construction is subject to government and statutory planning approvals, and weather. The next stage of works involves: 

• constructing a shared-use pathway to link Hill Road and the ferry wharf with the northern end of the future mixed-use development site; a temporary pathway will be installed from the park to Burroway Road until a future landowner constructs the permanent pathway as part of their works at the mixed-use site
• constructing a new seawall, featuring low-sloped surfaces with different sized rocks to minimise wave erosion while helping to protect the saltmarsh habitat and support marine life to establish and flourish
• building a new road to provide access to the park, shared open space and mixed-use development. 

We're working to deliver the new park as efficiently as possible and greatly appreciate the community’s ongoing patience and understanding. We'll keep neighbours, the wider Wentworth Point community and e-news subscribers informed as planning and construction progresses.