IndustrialVanessa CrollThu 04 Jun 26
HB+B Plots Small Warehouse Precinct at NSW’s Alspec Estate
A major industrial estate in Western Sydney’s new airport corridor is moving into smaller warehouse stock as its next stage goes before planners.
Developer HB+B Property has filed a $77-million plan for the Southern Small Lots precinct at Alspec Industrial Business Park (pictured), the Orchard Hills estate it is delivering for aluminium systems supplier Alspec.
Designed by Nettleton Tribe, the application would carve the south-eastern part of the Luddenham Road estate into 23 community-title lots and 31 warehouses.
The scheme would add smaller industrial stock to a broader business park already moving through larger logistics, manufacturing, freight and infrastructure stages.
It comes after HB+B lodged state-significant plans last year for a $171.8-million, 48,157sq m high-bay storage and distribution warehouse elsewhere in the estate, which remains under assessment.
The latest application before the Penrith City Council covers 96,255sq m at 289-317 Luddenham Road, within a broader 73.4ha estate.
Across four precincts, the plans would deliver 28,477sq m of building area, including 26,137sq m of warehouse space and 2340sq m of ancillary offices.
Also proposed are 164 car spaces, on-grade loading docks, two small cul-de-sac roads off the estate collector road and 13,027sq m of landscaping.
Buildings would rise to 10m across three precincts and 12.2m in Precinct 3.
Planning documents said the intended uses were light industrial and warehousing.
The smaller-lot plan follows the estate’s 2024 rezoning from rural landscape land to general industrial and environmental conservation uses.
Under the new planning framework, minimum lot sizes were reduced to 1000sq m, a 24m height control was introduced and density provisions were added to deliver a mix of large and small lots “that meet the needs of the local market”.
Since then, the estate has moved through a mix of council and state planning pathways.
Planning documents listed approved bulk earthworks, an approved Alspec manufacturing warehouse, an approved warehouse for specialist carrier COPE Sensitive Freight, an approved on-site sewage management facility and approved southern intersection works.
They also listed a storage and distribution warehouse, speculative warehouse, Patons Lane upgrades and interim access as still under assessment.
Construction started in October last year on COPE’s 38,500sq m warehouse at 211-227 Luddenham Road, described by Alspec at the time as the first development within the business park.
Traffic documents identified Western Sydney International Airport, the Sydney Metro airport line, the M12 motorway, Mamre Road works and planned freight links as key infrastructure shaping the corridor around the site.
