Menangle Park · NSW 2563 · Macarthur
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The $1 million project closes the pedestrian link between Campbelltown Station and the city centre during construction. Council expects completion in December 2026, weather and site conditions permitting.
NSW RFS lists an Extreme fire danger rating and Total Fire Ban for Greater Sydney on Monday 12 October 2026, including Campbelltown and Camden.
ALLY Infrastructure will finalise the design and construct upgrades in Campbelltown, Glenfield and Ingleburn; Council says construction is targeted to begin by late 2026, with completion anticipated in 2028.
Council announced the café opening on 6 October, adding food and drinks at the Bradbury swimming and recreation precinct.
Tracker
Every major piece of infrastructure planned or built for Menangle Park, with its current status and the source that says so.
A full-line Woolworths, specialty retail, childcare, a medical centre and an indoor recreation facility with a swim school, proposed on a site of about 37,000 sqm inside the estate. Woolworths lodged DA 2503/2026/DA-C with Campbelltown City Council in May 2026 and the application is under assessment. It has not been publicly exhibited, determined or approved. Woolworths describes it as a neighbourhood shopping centre that is part of the planned Menangle Park Town Centre; the application covers that retail component, not every element shown in earlier Town Centre masterplans. Menangle Park has no supermarket of its own in the meantime.
Dahua targets construction in 2027 and opening in late 2028, subject to approval.
A new NSW public primary school with co-located public early learning, initially for 500 students. School Infrastructure NSW's September 2026 update says the master plan has been validated and concept design is almost complete. The agency plans a community information session in Term 4 2026 and submission and public exhibition of the Review of Environmental Factors (REF) in late 2026. Its opening target remains Day 1, Term 1 2029.
School Infrastructure NSW targets Day 1, Term 1 2029.
A proposed 3 km four-lane divided road that would complete the east-west link from Stage 1 west to Liz Kernohan Drive, joining the Camden Bypass, the Hume Motorway and Menangle Road. The project is funded for planning and design ($15 million committed by NSW and Australian Governments), with the Review of Environmental Factors (REF) on public exhibition in September 2026. Construction funding is not yet determined.
Public exhibition ended 27 September 2026. Construction funding is not yet determined.
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Guides
Dahua's Design Administrator checks your plans first. Council or a private certifier approves them second. What each gate looks at, and how long it takes.
Roughly one train an hour, a change at Campbelltown, a loop bus and City-facing motorway ramps. The real numbers for a Menangle Park commute.
Insurance, power, nbn and mail before settlement; bins, pets, rates and your address after it. What applies to a bought home, a new build or a rental, and the number to ring for each.
The new public primary school is targeted for Day 1 Term 1 2029. Until then, here are the public catchments that apply, how school buses connect, and local childcare options.
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Common questions
Short answers, each linking to the page that carries the sources.
Club Menangle, the harness racing track on Racecourse Avenue, and the land release being built around it. The suburb is on Dharawal country, and the 2021 Census counted 224 people living here — the last official count of the suburb. Every larger figure published since is an estimate, a forecast or a planning yield, not a newer count.
Who lives hereNo, and sources confuse them constantly. Menangle Park is postcode 2563, in the Campbelltown City Council area, with Menangle Park station. Menangle is a separate village, postcode 2568, in Wollondilly Shire, with its own station. Different councils, different SES units, different flood plans.
About this guideNo. There is no supermarket, no pharmacy, no petrol station and no post office in the suburb. The closest supermarkets are Macarthur Square, 7.0 km north, and Marketfair Campbelltown, 7.8 km. A Woolworths-anchored town centre is a development application under assessment by Campbelltown City Council, which is not an approval and not an opening date.
Where to shopOne: Broughton Anglican College, an independent school from Pre-Kinder to Year 12 on Menangle Road. There is no public school in the suburb. School Infrastructure NSW says a new public primary school with a co-located early learning service is planned for Day 1 Term 1 2029, and until it opens essentially all of the suburb sits in the Douglas Park Public School intake area.
Schools and childcareHouses first, and then a list where the status matters more than the picture: the town centre is under assessment, the public primary school has a date from the agency but no planning approval, and Spring Farm Parkway Stage 1 gives city-facing motorway ramps only, not a full interchange. Our tracker labels every item built, approved, under assessment, proposed or only marketed.
What's being builtWe do not give investment advice, we do not sell property, and we take no commission on anyone else selling you one. What this guide can do is set out the costs to budget for — transfer duty, legal work, finance, what a building contract leaves out, rates — and the constraints that decide what you can build: mine subsidence, bushfire rating and noise.
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