Goodman Wins Approval for $206m St Peters Logistics Hub

Goodman has secured approval for its redesigned $206.4-million warehouse and distribution centre in Sydney’s south-west.

Consent covers 1-3 Burrows Road at St Peters, a 3.46ha site in Southern Employment Lands near Sydney Airport, Port Botany, the Cooks River Intermodal Terminal and the St Peters WestConnex interchange. 

Goodman Property Services (Australia) can now demolish four older lowrise warehouse buildings and replace them with a 24-hour multi-level warehouse and distribution centre.

It will be used for storage, freight handling and logistics operations, with ancillary office space, staff amenities, landscaping and supporting site infrastructure.

Approval for the state significant scheme was granted this month under delegation from the Minister for Planning and Public Spaces. 

As approved, plans provide for 34,051sq m of gross floor area, including 30,389sq m of warehouse space, 3353sq m of ancillary office space and 309sq m of end-of-trip facilities. 

Eight tenancies, 48 loading docks across two levels and 145 car spaces are proposed, with forecast employment of 684 construction jobs and 425 ongoing jobs.

▲ The original concept (above) and the approved redesign for Goodman’s Burrows Road warehouse at St Peters, designed by Welsh and Major.

The latest consent materially reshapes Goodman’s 2022 plans for a much larger three-storey warehouse. 

Earlier documents sought 52,150sq m of floor space, 224 car spaces, a 60sq m cafe, rooftop gardens, a gym and a six-level office component rising to 30.14 metres. 

By determination, built form had been cut to 25m, parking had been reduced by 79 spaces and floor area had fallen by more than 18,000sq m, although estimated development cost remained at $206.41 million. 

Department assessment records show redesign followed concerns over visual impact, landscaping, flooding, traffic and noise. 

Amendments lodged in January 2025 also reworked building layout, facade, access and manoeuvring, car parking, landscaping and the public art strategy before consent was issued. 

No public submissions were received during either exhibition period. 

▲ The 1-3 Burrows Road site at St Peters, where Goodman’s multi-level warehouse has been cleared to rise.

Goodman acquired 1-3 Burrows Road on a sale-and-leaseback basis in 2015, then secured a planning proposal in 2020 lifting the height control from 18m to 30m and introducing site-specific setbacks to Burrows Road and Canal Road, later gazetted in 2021. 

State significant development plans followed in 2022, a redesign was lodged in 2025, and approval has now arrived in 2026 in a smaller, leaner form than first pitched. 

Welsh and Major designed the competition-winning concept and the amended scheme. 

Goodman ran a competitive design process involving Architectus, FJMT Studio and Welsh and Major, and even after the scale-back the Design Integrity Panel found key elements of the winning design had been retained, including the curved Burrows Road facade, interlocking corners, sharp roof form and core landscape response. 

The project also sits within a broader Goodman reshaping of South Sydney industrial holdings. 

At 45 Burrows Road in Alexandria, Goodman completed its multi-level Axis Alexandria facility in late 2023 and is now leasing warehouse and office space there, while at 63 Campbell Road, it has repurposed an older site into Southend Lane, a nine-unit hybrid warehouse and office estate.

And at 35-39 Bourke Road, its flexible industrial, office and showroom scheme is being marketed through Alexandria Industrial Estate. 

Burrows Road was pitched in 2022 as a flagship multi-storey shed for Australia’s emerging urban logistics market.