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The Age
18-06-2025
- Business
- The Age
The next Sydney suburbs in line for 18-storey apartment blocks
Two Sydney suburbs are set to be transformed as low-rise homes make way for buildings up to 18 storeys tall under a controversial council plan to deliver 4000 new dwellings. Canterbury-Bankstown City Council has voted to endorse its alternative plan to the state government's transport-oriented development (TOD) scheme for Wiley Park and Punchbowl. The council had been required to allow at least 1600 new homes in those suburbs under the government's TOD plans. Instead, it more than doubled the target. Under the council's alternative, up to 4000 new homes could be built and high-density rezoning extended to 800 metres from Wiley Park and Punchbowl metro stations. Low-density streets would be transformed, with buildings of between four and 18 storeys. The TOD controls would cap building heights to a maximum of 24 metres, while the council alternative would allow buildings as high as 62 metres around Punchbowl station. In a fiery council debate on Tuesday, independent Councillor Barbara Coorey protested against the plans, claiming the proposal would turn suburbs from Canterbury to Bankstown into Hong Kong's Happy Valley. 'This is a super TOD that will rip the heart and soul out of Wiley Park and Punchbowl,' she said before the meeting. She told her fellow councillors that while she did not support the state government's TOD, in this case it was 'the lesser of two evils'.

Sydney Morning Herald
18-06-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
The next Sydney suburbs in line for 18-storey apartment blocks
Two Sydney suburbs are set to be transformed as low-rise homes make way for buildings up to 18 storeys tall under a controversial council plan to deliver 4000 new dwellings. Canterbury-Bankstown City Council has voted to endorse its alternative plan to the state government's transport-oriented development (TOD) scheme for Wiley Park and Punchbowl. The council had been required to allow at least 1600 new homes in those suburbs under the government's TOD plans. Instead, it more than doubled the target. Under the council's alternative, up to 4000 new homes could be built and high-density rezoning extended to 800 metres from Wiley Park and Punchbowl metro stations. Low-density streets would be transformed, with buildings of between four and 18 storeys. The TOD controls would cap building heights to a maximum of 24 metres, while the council alternative would allow buildings as high as 62 metres around Punchbowl station. In a fiery council debate on Tuesday, independent Councillor Barbara Coorey protested against the plans, claiming the proposal would turn suburbs from Canterbury to Bankstown into Hong Kong's Happy Valley. 'This is a super TOD that will rip the heart and soul out of Wiley Park and Punchbowl,' she said before the meeting. She told her fellow councillors that while she did not support the state government's TOD, in this case it was 'the lesser of two evils'.