Urban’s Reworked Western Sydney Precinct Goes Public
Urban Property Group’s $646-million Edmondson Park density play has moved to exhibition, with plans for 1805 homes across 14 towers of up to 40 storeys.
About 40km south-west of the Sydney CBD, the 3.1ha Buchan Avenue proposal is the next stage of Urban’s Chapter Place precinct, It is on public exhibition until April 30.
The plans by Plus Studio would replace smaller approved outcomes across Sites 3, 4 and 5 with 14 residential towers over five podiums.
Included in the mix are 274 affordable homes and 180 co-living homes, plus a supermarket, childcare centre, gym, other retail and commercial space, a public library, a plaza and through-site links.
Urban co-chief executive Patrick Elias said the scheme was testing whether the planning system could deliver transit-oriented housing at the pace implied by state and Federal targets.
“We can’t afford another decade of fenced-off paddocks next to train stations,” Elias said.
“This is what translating housing policy into bricks and mortar looks like. Yes, there are higher-density homes, but with social infrastructure on day one, not years after people move in.”
Urban is also seeking a sharp uplift in planning controls across the site, lifting heights from 12m to 21m now in place to 52m on Site 3, 88m on Site 4 and 135m on Site 5.
New floor space ratios were also proposed across the three parcels.
Planning documents said the uplift was warranted by the land’s proximity to Edmondson Park station and by the scale of public benefit offered, including affordable housing, a library, a plaza and upgraded pedestrian links.
Earlier approvals on the land were far smaller. Site 3 formed part of a 178-townhouse scheme across Sites 1, 2 and 3, while Site 4 and Site 5 carried separate approvals for 131 apartments and 30 townhouses, and 266 apartments and 40 terraces respectively.
Work has already started on 106 townhouses across Sites 1 and 2, but the new SSD would supersede approved outcomes on the remaining sites with a much denser town centre proposal.
Buchan Avenue is within Edmondson Park Town Centre North, reshaped by Landcom’s Modification 5 to the Edmondson Park South Concept Plan, approved in February 2025.
This modification lifted expected home capacity in Town Centre North from 440 homes to 3030, cut the public high school site from 8ha to 6ha and allowed taller buildings across parts of the precinct.
A concurrent Mod 14 would remove the sites from the old Edmondson Park South concept plan so the new proposal can be assessed under its own planning framework.
Land sits about 330m from Edmondson Park station, about 400m north-west of Frasers Property’s Ed Square town centre, and beside Edmondson Park Public School and the new public high school under construction.
Earthworks, subdivision and surrounding roads have already been completed under earlier approvals.
Lodged infrastructure due diligence said electricity, gas, water and sewer capacity was available in the area, subject to detailed approvals and staging.
Urban has offered Liverpool City Council a two-level library space of about 1300sq m on Site 3, with the council to complete the internal fit-out.
Business Western Sydney executive director David Borger described the proposal as “a litmus test” for how governments treat well-located density.
“Western Sydney is growing quickly and this is an opportunity to focus housing in places that are well planned and well connected,” he said.
Liverpool’s five-year housing target sits at 16,700 completed homes by 2029.
Consultation summarised in exhibition material raised concerns around scale and height, traffic and parking, population density, infrastructure capacity and construction impacts.
