City Fringe rezoning to accommodate 400 new homes

Written by

Charbel Abousleiman

Urban Planning Lawyer & Buyers Agent

9/12/2023

Various government agencies collaborate to facilitate the renewal of the Explorer Street social housing estate in Eveleigh.

The proposed renewal of this Explorer Street site has the potential to increase the supply of social, affordable and private dwellings in a highly accessible inner-city location, on the doorstop of public transport, services and jobs.

Identified within the Redfern-Waterloo Authority Sites State Significant Precinct, the 2.3 hectare Explorer Street site is bounded by Eveleigh rail yards to the north, Station Place to the east, a Sydney Trains work site to the west and Henderson Road/Railway Parade to the south. Included within the development site are the council-owned local roads of Aurora Place, Explorer Street, Progress Road and Station Place.

The northern part of the site accommodates 46 x dwellings in a townhouse configuration. LAHC has advised the existing homes are significantly under-occupied, with 14 of these dwellings only having one tenant each and 21 dwellings only having two people each, despite all the dwellings having 3 – 5 bedrooms.

LAHC has indicated that the priority waitlist for the Sydney LGA shows high demand for smaller units of the following sizes:

80% are seeking studio of 1-bedroom units,
16% are seeking 2-bedroom units, and
4% are seeking 3+ bedroom units.

The prime site adjacent to Eveleigh’s rail yard

The intention of the planning proposal is to facilitate:

32,600 square metres of floor space for residential apartment buildings providing about 400 new homes, including 30% social housing and 20% affordable housing,
renewal of South Sydney Rotary Park – an existing public park of 6880 square metres – with accessible paths and increased tree canopy cover and biodiversity, as well as space for active recreation and quiet enjoyment,
maintaining the existing 655 square metre council-owned pocket park on Station Place, and
maintaining and upgrading the existing streets, Explorer Street and Aurora Place, with new kerbs, footpaths and street trees to provide welcoming, accessible public spaces.

The existing land use zones for the site are medium density residential. It is proposed that the site be rezoned to R1 General Residential, which will allow a variety of housing types, including attached dwellings, apartment buildings, boarding houses and group homes. The buildings will sit no higher than 13 x storeys.

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