Toga Makes Fresh Play for Five Dock Site with 674-Home Plan

Toga has begun the state review process for a 674-home project in Sydney’s inner west, nine months after the council blocked a larger scheme across this and neighbouring sites.

The new concept spans 18,500sq m at 51-55 and 61 Parramatta Road, and 33, 35-41 and 43 Queens Road, dropping lots on Harris Road and Courland Street from the 2024 proposal for now.

Planning documents indicated these extra parcels may be brought forward in a future application to deliver a larger masterplanned precinct.

The earlier plan, known as Five Dock Village, mapped out 1046 homes across four towers, a full-line supermarket, shops, co-working offices, a public plaza and park, new roads and affordable housing.

The Canada Bay Council refused the plan in October of 2024, citing excess traffic generation, tree canopy loss, and excessive bulk and commercial space inconsistent with the Parramatta Road Corridor strategy, according to planning documents.

The new concept, lodged as a Scoping Report and SEARs request late last month, proposes three shoptop housing buildings of 14 to 28 storeys, plus an eight-storey build-to-rent/co-living block that would also include co-working space above a retail component.

Plans include a three-level basement with a full-line supermarket, ground-floor retail and community uses, a 2090sq m public park, new streets, widened road frontages, and 674 homes, of which 7.5 per cent would be allocated to affordable housing.

▲ Rendering of Toga’s revised Five Dock concept, with future eastern and western stages flagged.

Planning documents described it as a “well-connected, permeable precinct” with pedestrian links, cycleways and open space replacing today’s car yards and industrial sheds.

Current planning controls on the site allow mostly two-to-six storey development under light industrial and low-density zoning.

Toga’s proposal seeks to lift those limits, introducing towers of up to 95 metres.

The site forms part of the Kings Bay Precinct, where several other large-scale projects have been approved or are under way, including 129-155 Parramatta Road and 53-75 Queens Road, with more redevelopment flagged across the corridor.

Toga said the new vision would deliver a “sustainable and permeable mixed-use neighbourhood with a new public park flanked by active uses, creating high-quality housing and retail close to public transport”.