Rosalind Park rezoning goes on exhibition, and its Gateway timeframe has passed

Planning proposal PP-2022-3252, known as Rosalind Park, went on public exhibition from Wednesday 8 July 2026 to Friday 21 August 2026. It covers about 264 hectares at 33 Medhurst Road and 101 and 111 Menangle Road, Menangle Park. Campbelltown City Council’s 10 February 2026 report records that it was lodged with Council on 13 October 2022 by SJB Planning on behalf of Leda Holdings Pty Ltd.

What the proposal would do

Council’s February 2026 report describes a new residential precinct of roughly 1,450 dwellings, 13 hectares of public open space, a local centre, a 3.2 hectare primary school site and about 76 hectares for environmental conservation and supporting uses, plus a Rural Fire Service station site and the upgrade of Medhurst Road to a sub-arterial road.

The 1,450 is a ceiling, not an entitlement. Gateway condition 1(b) requires the proposal to include a provision setting the dwelling cap for the site at “290 dwellings with a maximum dwelling potential of 1,450 dwellings”. Council describes that as “a condition initially capping development at 290 dwellings”, says it is “driven primarily by the need to confirm the timing and delivery of wastewater servicing for the precinct” and is “linked to Sydney Water’s servicing constraints”, and notes the Gilead 2 planning proposal had a dwelling cap imposed for the same reason. Read the 290 as the number with a route to consent.

The Gateway, and the two dates

The Gateway determination instrument is dated 25 August 2025 and is signed by Daniel Thompson, Executive Director, Local Planning and Council Support at the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure, as delegate of the Minister. The NSW Planning Portal separately records a Date of Determination of 5 September 2025 with a Gateway decision of “Approved”. Both dates are genuine and describe the same determination: 25 August 2025 is the date on the document and the date Council uses, and it is the date the 12-month completion clock runs from.

The Gateway also redirected the proposal. Condition 1(a) requires it to “Seek an amendment to the State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Western Parkland City) 2021 instead of the Campbelltown LEP 2015” — which is why the deadline is described as a SEPP deadline rather than an LEP one.

One alteration has been made, dated 9 October 2025. It changed condition 6 only, so that a draft development control plan no longer had to be exhibited at the same time as the proposal but must still be exhibited before finalisation. It did not extend the timeframe.

Two published facts bear on why the amendment was not made by 25 August 2026. Exhibition closed on 21 August 2026, four days before the deadline, so no post-exhibition report could have been prepared and considered in that window. And the draft development control plan that the altered condition 6 requires before finalisation has not been exhibited — Council’s exhibition page says it is not yet available and that “Once the draft DCP has been prepared, it will be reported to Council for the purpose of seeking endorsement for public exhibition.” A draft planning agreement was not exhibited either.

A timeframe passing does not end a proposal by itself. The Department’s Local Environmental Plan Making Guideline says any request to extend these timeframes “must be justified and include clear revised milestones for completion”, and that the Minister “may alter a Gateway determination to not proceed, appoint the Secretary (or other person or body) as PPA, or proceed to make the plan where significant delays occur”.

How this differs from the estate you already know

Rosalind Park is not part of the Dahua Menangle Park release area. It is a distinct proposal by a different party in the same suburb. That matters when you read population or dwelling figures for Menangle Park, because the numbers quoted for the Dahua estate and the numbers quoted here are counting different land.

For scale: the Menangle Park release area was rezoned in November 2017 for around 3,400 dwellings, described elsewhere by Council as approximately 3,500 with a population of 9,800. A separate planning proposal, PP-2020-3129, made on 29 April 2022, then lifted the yield on Dahua’s land from 3,000 to 4,000 — an increase of 1,000. Rosalind Park would sit outside the release area, not inside it.

What it means for a household here

More traffic on Menangle Road is the practical headline. The proposal’s local centre and primary school site are worth noting but are a long way from delivery, and the suburb already has a Woolworths-anchored town centre development application under assessment and a public primary school project pending.

What to watch

A second Gateway alteration document appearing on the PP-2022-3252 record on the Planning Portal would be the first public sign that the timeframe has been extended; the existing alteration is numbered GA-2025-158. After that, watch Campbelltown City Council’s business papers for the post-exhibition report, which is where the submission count normally appears — Council has not published how many submissions the exhibition drew. Ask Council directly before you act on this proposal in either direction.