Campbelltown Council deferred its draft affordable housing plan, which names Menangle Park
A draft plan would require up to 10 per cent affordable rental housing on future density-uplift rezonings. It names Menangle Park but sets no suburb-specific target. Council deferred it on 8 September 2026 for a further briefing to the Mayor, so it has not gone on exhibition.
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Campbelltown City Council deferred its draft Affordable Housing Action Plan 2027–2036 on 8 September 2026. The minutes record resolution 234/2026, moved by Cr Rivera and seconded by Cr Triebels: “That Council defer Item 8.2 for a further briefing to the Mayor.” It carried 12 votes to one, Cr McEwan against.
So the draft has not gone on public exhibition, and nothing in it binds anyone. Everything below is what the draft proposed when officers put it up.
What officers are asking for
Officers asked Council to endorse the draft “for the purposes of public exhibition and community consultation”, with a further report to come back on the outcome — exhibition, not adoption. The report said exhibition would run 28 days under Council’s Community Participation Plan, and gave no start or close date. The deferral stops that clock: there is no exhibition to make a submission to, and no date for one.
What the draft would require
Action 1.1 of the draft plan reads: “All planning proposals which involve an uplift in residential density will be required to provide up to 10% of dwellings as affordable rental housing,” timed for implementation in 2027. It is a ceiling, not a fixed rate — the plan says “the contribution rate will be identified through the planning proposal, with the LEP amended to specify the rate,” and it can be met by dedicating dwellings to a community housing provider or by an equivalent monetary contribution.
Where Menangle Park appears — and where it does not
The draft names Menangle Park four times: as a project “expected to contribute to affordable housing outcomes,” as a greenfield supply precinct alongside Gilead, in a lot-production count of 707 lots to June 2025 (against Gilead’s 350 — a production figure, not dwellings completed or households), and in a future-supply table. That table describes the East Village proposal as set to “increase dwelling potential from 340 detached dwellings to 2,000 apartments and multi-unit dwellings,” status “Awaiting Gateway Determination.”
The plan sets no Menangle Park-specific affordable housing target, and does not say whether the 10 per cent requirement in Action 1.1 would reach the East Village proposal at all — East Village was endorsed for Gateway before Action 1.1’s 2027 start date, and the plan separately treats greenfield precincts under the Western Parkland City SEPP, which requires at least 5 per cent of floor space for affordable rental housing and currently applies to the Gilead 2 precinct.
What it means for a household here
Nothing changes for Menangle Park. The deferral means there is nothing to comment on and no rule to plan around. When the draft comes back, the question worth watching is whether a future Menangle Park rezoning — such as East Village, once and if it reaches a planning proposal stage involving a density uplift — ends up subject to Action 1.1’s affordable-housing requirement, and at what rate.
A deferral “for a further briefing to the Mayor” carries no deadline, so the plan can sit indefinitely. The way to catch it is Council’s 2026 Business Papers page, where agendas go up about a week before each meeting.
What to watch
The item returning to a Council agenda after the briefing, and, separately, whether the East Village planning proposal receives a Gateway determination.