Urban Plots 1827-Home Precinct at Edmonston Park

Urban Property Group is scrapping three approved projects to make way for a fast-tracked precinct development of nearly 2000 homes in Sydney’s south-west. 

UPG is planning 15 towers at Edmondson Park ranging from 4 to 40 storeys and comprisng about 1827 apartments.

The developer has submitted a scoping report, requesting Project Specific Secretary’s Environmental Assessment Requirements (SEARs) and rezoning study requirements for the multi-stage residential project. 

It would deliver a mix of shoptop housing, market residential, co-living and affordable housing, and “potentially” build-to-rent. 

The site at 4-5, 6-7, and 8 Buchan Avenue has been in UPG’s possession for several years, and a handful of projects have been approved for the sites. 

The Housing Delivery Authority recommended this year that proposed developments at sites 4 and 5, at 4-5 Buchan Avenue, be declared state significant. 

The state development agency Landcom had begun an Edmondson Park South Precinct plan in 2010 that outlined 3530 homes and a new town centre on and around the site. 

▲ Rendering of a 131-home project UPG previously won approval for on the site.

However, UPG acquired five sites from Landcom in 2021 and its current SSDA relates to development at sites 3, 4 and 5.  

UPG had plans in the works for a number of the sites with sites 1, 2 and 3 approved for 178 townhouses. 

UPG will now only proceed with the development of townhouses on sites 1 and 2, totalling 106 townhouses (pictured top), on which construction has begun, but not those slated for site 3. 

▲ Rendering of a 266-home scheme, previously approved and now scrapped.

It will also not begin work on approved projects on two other sites approved in May—266 apartments and 40 terraces on site 5 and an eight-storey two-tower project of 131 units on site 4. 

The current SSDA marks a significant upscale of its initial plans for the sites, which are 330m from Edmondson Park train station and next to a high school under construction. 

The scoping report said the site was 400m north-west of the Ed.Square shopping centre, in a “highly accessible and active urban precinct”.

Also in the suburb, Urban Property Group’s $1.5-billion Chapter Place project, a masterplanned precinct of 1900 homes, broke ground last week.

The first stage, designed by Cox Architecture, comprises 43 terraces and is due for completion in mid-2026.