What's being built in Menangle Park

Current position. Transport for NSW lists a north-facing exit ramp off the Hume onto Spring Farm Parkway and a north-facing entry ramp back on, so trips north towards Liverpool, Parramatta or the CBD can join the Hume at the parkway.

There are no south-facing ramps, so trips towards Picton Road, Wollongong or Canberra use another interchange. The parkway also carries a shared-use path on its southern side giving walking and cycling access to Broughton Anglican College.

Current position. The $15 million committed by the Australian and NSW Governments funds environmental assessment and concept design. Jacobs Australia was appointed in May 2025 to do that design work.

No construction funding has been announced for the western link to Camden and the Camden Bypass (see our report). Transport for NSW estimates that the completed parkway will divert between 20,000 and 30,000 vehicles per day from Narellan Road. The Review of Environmental Factors is on display for comment from 3 September 2026, the report says (the governments announced it on 7 September), with comments closing 11:59pm Sunday 27 September 2026 (see our report). Transport for NSW has also released an official corridor map and a 3D flyover animation illustrating the proposed alignment, bridge crossings and shared paths. Transport for NSW targets completing the final business case by early 2027. Construction procurement and delivery will be subject to a subsequent construction funding decision in a future state budget.

Current position. Menangle Road connects Menangle Park to Campbelltown, and this upgrade is at the investigation stage. The program funds planning, not construction. Business cases are due by 2028, and any construction funding would be a separate decision after that.

The project infoline is 1800 684 490.

Current position. Appin Road is the run south-east towards Appin and on to Wollongong via Bulli Pass, and the finished Stage 1 section is wider than it was. The koala fencing changes where wildlife crosses, and a fauna underpass near Noorumba Reserve, beneath Appin Road, is complete and open.

Further north, the Appin Road and St Johns Road intersection upgrade at Bradbury was determined in January 2026 with $22.5 million committed by the Australian Government, and Transport for NSW said construction was expected to start in 2026 and take about 12 months. As at 30 August 2026 the project page showed “Project determination”.

Current position. A second signalised access point would give the estate another way in and out. At present the estate’s traffic reaches Menangle Road through a small number of connections.

The source for this project is the developer’s newsletter, and the milestone it reports is design approval, which Transport for NSW gives. A late-2026 start is Dahua’s expectation; the timing depends on Transport for NSW granting it, which the newsletter says Dahua is working to obtain.

Current position. Menangle Park Station remains in normal passenger operation on the Southern Highlands Line, with direct trains taking about 6 minutes to Macarthur and 8 to 12 minutes to Campbelltown. Transport for NSW’s February 2026 notification confirmed that recent corridor activity was limited to site investigations, surveying and vegetation management; planning investigations continue, but no construction start date has been announced.

For detailed commute timetables, measured walking routes from new estate stages, station parking, and accessibility arrangements, see our dedicated getting to work guide and getting around guide.

Current position. Route 889 operates seven days. Journey times between the estate and Macarthur depend on the direction, stopping pattern and travel date.

Because it is a loop, the station has an outward stop and a return stop. The 07:02 Macarthur trip reaches them at 07:21 and 07:37 respectively, returning to Macarthur at 07:59 on the timetable valid to 11 October, or 08:03 on school days from 12 October with a Broughton Anglican College stop. Check the direction and travel date. It remains the only regular public bus route serving Menangle Park, on Transport for NSW’s route information checked on 30 August 2026.

Every 889 trip is wheelchair accessible. The accessible symbol heads every service column on the current timetable — weekday, Saturday and Sunday — and the timetable’s own note says the buses have low floors and space for a wheelchair, pram or stroller. Transport for NSW’s platform data does not mark Menangle Park Station itself as wheelchair accessible.

Current position. There is no direct bus from Menangle Park to the new airport. The 845 starts at Campbelltown Station: take the train to Campbelltown and change, or from the 889 change at Macarthur for a one-stop train to Campbelltown first. The trip takes two or three connections, each on its own timetable.

By car it is about 33 km and 38 minutes from the estate entrance on a routed estimate without live traffic, via the Hume Motorway, Narellan Road and The Northern Road — signalised arterial roads for most of the way, not motorway. The toll-free M12, open since 14 March 2026, serves the airport from the M7 side and is not on this route. Transport for NSW’s page, in its note on the M12, says access into the airport site will not be available until the airport opens in late October 2026. Passenger flights begin on 25 October.

Current position. The proposed shopping centre is under assessment and is not operating. There is no supermarket, pharmacy or post office in the suburb; Macarthur Square and Marketfair Campbelltown are about 7 to 8 km north along Menangle Road.

An application under assessment can be modified, refused, or approved with conditions that shift the design and the timing. 2027 construction and a late-2028 opening are the proponent’s targets, subject to approval. Dahua’s 2020 revised masterplan described a 30,000 sqm retail and employment zone for Menangle Park. This application is the retail component now before Council. The application can be followed on Council’s Development Online under 2503/2026/DA-C.

Current position. The September planning update records a validated master plan and an almost complete concept design. School Infrastructure NSW plans a Term 4 2026 community session and REF submission and public exhibition in late 2026.

The September update describes the transfer of the school land from Dahua Group as being in its final stages, with completion and formalisation expected that month. The agency says it has signed a site access agreement for remaining site assessments, specialist reports and investigations.

The planned scope includes 24 classrooms, three support learning classrooms, co-located public early learning, a hall, a covered outdoor learning area, a full-sized playing field and a multipurpose court. The June update places the site centrally near the future proposed town centre. The official project page does not list a school street address or intake boundary. See schools and childcare for existing school options and catchments.

School Infrastructure NSW places the project within the $4.1 billion for new and upgraded schools in Western Sydney, part of the 2026-27 Budget’s $9.2 billion school infrastructure program. Budget Paper No. 3 allocates $4.499 million to the school and early childhood component together in 2026-27; this is an annual allocation, not the total project cost.

The planning approval and construction dates in the timeline come from the June 2026 indicative programme. The September update retains the opening target of Day 1, Term 1 2029.

Current position. This park is open. We photographed it on 4 September 2026: a circular lawn, a playground under shade sails, a pergola walk, benches, new planting and a fenced sports court. Dahua’s newsletter dates the opening to 2025. The Menangle Park DCP requires every dwelling in the release area to sit within 400 metres of a public park, and most of that network is yet to be built.

“Northern Hill Top Park” is the developer’s name, and Council does not list a park by it. Open space land across the estate is being dedicated to Campbelltown City Council under the 2024 planning agreement, which is what eventually makes maintenance Council’s job rather than the developer’s.

Current position. The second of the two hill top parks, and the one that serves the southern end of the estate. It was still under construction when we checked on 21 September 2026. Dahua targeted completion by the end of September 2026, with a community opening shortly afterwards — a developer target, not an opening date.

Current position. The public sports fields planned for the estate have not been built.

The project manager acting for Dahua describes a Playing Fields Park with four sports fields, kick-about areas, an amenities building, a themed playground, shared paths, parking and lighting. The developer’s published timing is “programmed to commence Q4 2026”.

Current position. This is the document behind most of the parks, roads and drainage on the masterplan. Council’s register breaks the commitment into open space and recreation land and works, traffic and transport land and works, trunk drainage and water quality, and community facility land.

The headline figure is what the developer is obliged to deliver over the life of the estate, in stages and as development proceeds; it is not money already spent. Council’s register is public and records what has been dedicated to Council so far.

Current position. Registration and occupation depend on the required servicing being in place or otherwise accepted. SMEC, the estate’s lead civil designer, says it installed an interim pump-out system while Sydney Water’s permanent pump station was delayed, so residential development could keep going.

Sydney Water describes this infrastructure as servicing about 4,000 new homes, which matches what Dahua markets on its own landholding — “4,000+ homesites”. The two agree, but neither is a cap: the 2024 planning agreement between Council and Dahua allows up to 4,525 final lots. The 4,000 is what the servicing was sized for, not a limit on how many houses are built.

Current position. Fibre to the premises runs fibre the whole way to the house, with no copper leg. The addresses checked returned FTTP as available. Confirm any installation or new-development charge with your chosen provider before you sign: nbn’s policy for new developments says it may charge a one-time end-user contribution of up to $300 for each premises in a new development, and that providers may pass it on.

Availability is determined address by address, and older parts of Menangle Park were connected at different times from the new estate. Put your exact street address into nbn’s Check Address tool, and if you are buying land, ask for the lot’s status rather than the street’s.

Current position. Endeavour Energy says the mobile substation now feeding Menangle Park does not have capacity beyond 2027, and the permanent replacement has no published determination and no published construction start date. It is assessed under Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, with Endeavour Energy both proponent and determining authority — so there is no council consent to look up. Endeavour describes a forecast capacity constraint; it has published no moratorium, queue or refusal on new connections.

Enquiries go to environment@endeavourenergy.com.au. For outages and electrical emergencies the number is 131 003, 24 hours.

Current position. Civil works are under way in both stages. The sequence is civil works, then registration of the plan (titles), then settlement, then building. The developer publishes target dates for construction completion, titles and settlement; each is a target until it is reached.

Spine Road South is finished and delivered 49 lots in the Rosewood release. The developer’s tracker lists eight earlier stages that reached titles between the fourth quarter of 2023 and January 2026 — Stage 3 South 3.1 to 3.4, Stage 2B, then 3.6, 3.8 and 3.7, Stage 3 North in June 2025, and Stage 4 South 4.1 to 4.2 in late September 2025 and 4.3 to 4.4 in January 2026. That is a record of stages registered, not a count of lots or houses.

The latest published count of homes is a developer figure of approximately 250, dated 23 September 2024; no current count of completed or occupied homes is published, so any current population figure is an estimate.

What this means for Menangle Park. Rosalind Park is a request to rezone a second, separate block of land in the suburb — about 264 hectares at 33 and 65 Medhurst Road and 101 and 111 Menangle Road — from rural land to housing. It is not part of the Dahua estate. It sits on the eastern side of the Hume Motorway, across from the estate, the raceway and the station; Medhurst Road is about 1.8 km south-east of Menangle Park station in a straight line. If the rezoning goes through, it would add up to 1,450 homes to the suburb, on land whose one road in and out, as exhibited, joins Menangle Road.

The number to hold on to is 290. The rezoning would set a ceiling of 1,450 homes, but a Gateway condition caps it at 290. Council says the cap is “linked to Sydney Water’s servicing constraints” and that wastewater has to be resolved before the full number could be built. Sydney Water has advised it can serve up to 290 lots through the Glenfield system until 2028. Council says the Gilead 2 proposal had a cap imposed for the same reason.

Where it stands, 21 September 2026

Exhibition is over and the deadline has been extended. The proposal was on public exhibition from 8 July to 21 August 2026. Its original timeframe ran out on 25 August 2026 with the rezoning not made. Three days later, on 28 August, the Department altered the Gateway determination and set new dates:

• Council must report the proposal to the Planning Secretary for a final recommendation by 18 December 2026.
• The amendment must be completed by 26 February 2027.
• It still cannot be determined until any State planning agreement is resolved, and its final layout, development control plan and planning agreement must be informed by a transport plan endorsed by Transport for NSW.

The same alteration dropped the requirement, added in October 2025, that a draft development control plan be exhibited before the rezoning is finalised. The plan must still be endorsed before any house is approved, and the conditions say it may be adopted after the rezoning is made. The alteration was published on the Planning Portal on 21 September 2026.

Council has not yet reported on the exhibition, and its exhibition page says the draft development control plan is still being prepared with the Department.

What is proposed

The proposal as exhibited in July 2026 describes:

• a ceiling of about 1,450 homes, capped at 290 to start, on a range of lot sizes
• a village centre around the existing Federation-era homestead in the north, and a neighbourhood centre beside the school site in the south
• a 3.2 hectare primary school site, next to the playing fields
• about 13.4 to 14 hectares of open space, depending on the layout — 13.97 hectares on the one that assumes a change to the conservation plan, 13.36 hectares on the one that fits the plan as it stands
• about 76 hectares for environmental conservation, including a koala corridor
• a Rural Fire Service station site in the south
• land kept for the Greater Macarthur transit corridor
• Medhurst Road upgraded to a sub-arterial road, with a possible future crossing of Menangle Creek to the land to the south

Building heights would be 9 metres in the low density zone, 12 metres in the medium density zone, and 12 to 15 metres in the mixed use zone. Standard lots would be at least 420 square metres, or 600 on steep land. Up to 10 per cent of lots could be small lots of 300 to 345 square metres, and up to 20 per cent medium lots of 345 to 420. A Gateway condition requires five per cent of medium density homes to be delivered as affordable housing.

It is being made through the State’s Western Parkland City precincts policy, the same route the Appin and Gilead 2 rezonings took, rather than through Campbelltown’s own local plan. The Department, not Council, makes the final plan.

The main objection on the record

The NSW Rural Fire Service wrote to Council on 6 November 2025, before exhibition, that it “does not consider the proposed planning proposal can demonstrate compliance with PBP, 2019” — the state’s rules for building on bushfire-prone land. Its concern is the way out: the proposal “will rely on one access/egress point to the north of the site onto Menangle Road”, which bushfire could affect, and the proponent’s own traffic assessment found the development “would result in extreme delays and would require major treatments at the Menangle Road and Medhurst Road intersection”. The RFS requires a second access point.

What the land is now

Mostly zoned RU2 Rural Landscape, with a 100-hectare minimum lot size. Council’s report lists current and former uses: AGL’s coal seam gas operations, now decommissioned, including gas wells and the Rosalind Gas Plant, which has been demolished and remediated; a sandstone quarry and crushing plant; a former dairy farm, Rosalind Park; horticulture; and a mobile phone tower. A Federation-era house on the site traces to an 1812 land grant to the convict James Harrex. It has been extensively modified and is not heritage-listed.

Two layouts, one decision still to come

The proponent has asked the Department to change the Cumberland Plain Conservation Plan over part of the site, which is a separate decision from the rezoning. So two layouts were exhibited: one that fits the conservation plan as it stands, and one that assumes the change. If the change is not approved by the time the rezoning is finalised, the rezoning is made on the layout that fits the current plan.

Infrastructure and money

When the proposal was lodged, the proponent offered land and works valued at $66.2 million for State infrastructure and $84.4 million for local infrastructure. Council’s February 2026 report says that offer needs “further refinement and re-evaluation”, given the time taken to issue the Gateway determination. No draft planning agreement has been published, and none was exhibited.

What to watch, and who to ask

The next public step is Council’s post-exhibition report, which will appear on a Campbelltown City Council business paper on Council’s Meetings and Minutes page. That report is where the number of submissions, any answer to the Rural Fire Service on a second access point, and any change to the layout should first appear. It has to reach the Department by 18 December, so look for it at a Council meeting before then.

The Planning Portal record names two contacts for the proposal: Stefan Radmanovic at Campbelltown City Council, 02 4645 4381, and Jordan Clarkson at the Department, 02 9407 2131. Council’s reference is 4125/2022/E-PP.

What this means for Menangle Park. East Village is part of the suburb’s older village — the block of existing homes and acreage bounded by Cummins Road, Fitzpatrick Street, Racecourse Avenue and Taber Street, inside the Menangle Park urban release area. It sits west of the planned Menangle Park town centre, across Cummins Road, where Woolworths has a shopping-centre application under assessment. Today its rules allow about 340 houses. The rezoning would allow about 1,907 homes, most of them apartments, in buildings of up to six storeys.

It is not a Dahua proposal. The land is 22 separate parcels, averaging about a hectare each, and the applicant, Michael Brown Planning Strategies, acts for a number of the owners. If the rezoning is made, development would come lot by lot, owner by owner, rather than as one estate.

Where it stands, 21 September 2026

Waiting on the Department. Campbelltown City Council endorsed the proposal on 9 December 2025 and sent it to the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure for a Gateway determination — the decision on whether it can go on public exhibition, and on what conditions. Nine months later the Planning Portal still shows it at that stage, with no decision.

Council’s resolution also asks the applicant for a draft amendment to the Menangle Park contributions plan and a draft development control plan before any public exhibition. A draft development control plan was with Council’s staff in December 2025, needing more work, and is to be reported to Council before exhibition. Neither plan has come before Council since: no agenda or minutes from February to September 2026 mentions East Village, other than February’s routine confirmation of the December minutes. So even after a Gateway determination, there is more work before residents see it on exhibition.

What is proposed

In buildings, Council’s December 2025 report describes apartment blocks of three, four and six storeys, stepping down to three where they sit next to terraces, and 74 terrace homes of two to three storeys in an R3 zone. There would be 4.1 hectares of open space, centred on a park with room for a children’s playground and pickleball courts, and new east–west paths for walking only.

The patch of Elderslie Banksia Scrub Forest in the north-east corner, an endangered ecological community, would be zoned C3 Environmental Management, about a hectare. The applicant’s earlier map had it as public recreation; Council’s staff asked for the change, and the proposal Council endorsed includes it.

The figure you will see varies. Council’s officers’ report says 1,907 homes. The planning proposal attached to it — the document Council’s resolution endorsed — says “some 1,934”. A draft Council affordable housing plan, deferred on 8 September 2026, restates it as 2,000 apartments and multi-unit dwellings.

Traffic

The proposal carries two sets of traffic findings, and they point different ways.

Its preliminary traffic study forecasts a net increase of over 750 vehicle trips in each of the morning and evening peaks, with the Spring Farm Parkway / North–South Collector Road intersection over capacity — Level of Service F in both peaks — and about 75 to 85 per cent of the new traffic using it. It tests an upgrade there, and a diversion of a third of the release area’s north-east traffic to the Menangle Road / North–South Collector Road intersection.

Later modelling, done at Transport for NSW’s request and approved by it, finds the traffic from the proposal would run at Level of Service D or better until 2051 on the planned future road network, without any upgrades, with the Spring Farm Parkway intersection at B or better to 2041. Transport for NSW told Council on 17 February 2025 that it had no further comments. Council’s June 2025 report still noted that the proposal relies on upgrades at Spring Farm Parkway and two other collector-road intersections, with no funding or staging plan for them.

For anyone who drives out of the suburb at peak hour, the Spring Farm Parkway and Menangle Road intersections with the North–South Collector Road are the ones to watch.

Who pays for the roads and parks

Because the land is in so many hands, Council says infrastructure is unlikely to come through planning agreements. Instead, each owner would pay contributions under an amended Menangle Park contributions plan, or provide works in kind. The applicant has engaged a consultant for an infrastructure delivery plan, which Council described in December 2025 as incomplete, and Council’s report says the funding “has not been fully detailed and documented”. That is one open question Council itself has flagged.

Sewer is the other. Sydney Water advised Council on 9 May 2025 that sewer “will not be available until the future Upper Nepean Advanced Water Recycling Centre” is complete — a facility Council’s report describes as only at the planning stage — and that any interim wastewater servicing before then must be done at no cost to government.

The December 2025 vote

The December 2025 vote was resolution 338/2025, moved by Cr Karen Hunt and seconded by Cr Seta Berbari. Crs Jayden Rivera and Tao Triebels voted against. Crs Warren Morrison, Isabella Wisniewska and Joshua Cotter declared interests and left the chamber for the item; Cr Morrison said he was an alternate member of the Sydney Western City Planning Panel and a director of Club Menangle.

What to watch, and who to ask

The Gateway determination will appear as a document on the PP-2024-2724 record on the Planning Portal. It will say whether the proposal can go on exhibition and on what conditions. After that, watch Council’s business papers for the draft contributions plan and development control plan, which have to come to Council before exhibition.

The Planning Portal record names two contacts: Edmund McGrath at Campbelltown City Council, 02 4645 4608, and Kate Campbell at the Department, 02 5778 1401.