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03/04/2024
A planning proposal to rezone land in Orchard Hills from rural to general and light industrial was officially gazetted on 28 March 2024.
Located at 221 – 235 Luddenham Road, the newly adopted planning framework will facilitate a large 409,000 sqm of industrial gross floor area across 3 x stages. The project will see 32 x high quality warehouse buildings across 32 x lots, with each accompanied by ancillary office space.
A sunset clause has been included in the amended Penrith LEP which requires commencement of the project within 5 years of gazettal. If this doesn’t occur, the site’s zoning will revert to its historical rural zoning.
An economic analysis carried out by Urbis found that the Western Sydney catchment has:
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In addition to delivering hundreds of much-needed industrial land, the proposal will also deliver shovel-ready industrial land for smaller operators who have not been able to compete with the institutional owners in the Mamre Road Precinct. It will also help increase the 39% share of Penrith LGA resident workers able to work within the LGA.
Light industrial uses are proposed on the east of the site where the Croatian Club exists and aligns land which can be adapted to respond to future infrastructure delivery for future development.
An additional block of land south of the site is proposed to be rezoned general industrial with the area along the southern boundary (along the future Western Sydney Freight Line) to be retained as rural. This retention reflects the area identified to be ‘avoided for biodiversity’ under the draft Cumberland Plain Conservation Plan.
Once fully developed and tenanted, there is potential to deliver an additional $1.2 billion of direct and indirect gross value added annually.
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