Western Parkland City

Planning a cooler, greener future

With water playing a lead role in cooling and greening the city, we're working as part of the Parkland City Planning Partnership to identify and collaborate on opportunities to help bring the NSW Government's vision of a  Western Parkland City vision to life. Water and wastewater are essential for growth and development, but in the Western Parkland City water will play a vital role in ensuring it becomes a vibrant, liveable, sustainable urban centre.

The Parkland City

A vital resource for an exciting future

Reimagining water in Western Sydney

The Parkland City

We’re working with customers, partners and the wider community to deliver affordable and essential water services, healthy waterways and vibrant, cool, green places for people to come together to live, work and play in Western Sydney.

Taking an integrated approach to managing the total water cycle, we’re accelerating the construction of new water and wastewater assets, as well amplifying existing services to support current and future growth.  

A vital resource for an exciting future

Western Sydney is in the midst of an exciting transformation and none of it is possible without water.

So between 2020 and 2022, we’re investing $1.3B on infrastructure projects in the Western Sydney Aerotropolis Growth Area (WSAGA). By 2026, we’ll have invested about $3B in infrastructure across the Western Sydney Parkland City.

Re-using water is central to this approach and there are already some recycled water schemes in place for non-drinking purposes. 

We're reimagining water in Western Sydney

We’re working with customers, businesses, other utilities, government agencies and councils through the Parkland City Planning Partnership to identify and collaborate on opportunities for integrated, water resilient and landscape-led planning that will help bring the Western Sydney Parkland City vision to life.

See our Growth Servicing Plan to learn more about our 5-year planning outlook for water and wastewater infrastructure, including processes and anticipated timelines and howyou can accelerate ‘out-of-sequence’ developments.

Learn more about how we're Creating a water resilient city: Bringing the Western Parkland City to life (2 MB)

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Reimagining water in Western Sydney

Sydney Water is reimagining the way we plan, deliver and manage water to support the Western Parkland City. The aim of this plan is to ensure 'our customers enjoy affordable and essential water services, healthy waterways, and vibrant, cool and green places'.

With our regional master plan, we’re forging a pathway towards a more integrated, sustainable and resilient water future, that keeps water in the landscape, contributes to the circular economy and brings about whole-of-community benefits. We estimate that this approach will add $10 billion in socio-economic value to the region. 

Re-imagining Water in Western Sydney – Western Sydney Regional Master Plan outlines an adaptable approach to planning, delivering and managing water services by:

  • integrating whole-of-water cycle servicing options with land use planning for the Western Parkland City
  • understanding the broader economic benefits of alternative servicing approaches
  • engaging with key government agencies to get the best customer outcomes.

We're delivering a water-sensitive parkland city

  • We're providing more recycled water for non-drinking purposes, including opportunities for use within homes and businesses, irrigation of public open spaces and for agriculture.
  • We're providing more recycled water and opportunities for re-use to retain more water in the landscape and reduce the amount of excess wastewater and stormwater discharged to waterways.
  • We're increasing the focus on retaining and re-using stormwater locally, supported by centralised co-ordinated management and governance.
  • We're supporting land use planning that reduces hard constructed surfaces and prevents the loss of soils by incorporating more water-sensitive urban design to help shape enjoyable open community places.
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We’re planning and delivering infrastructure to support newly released and re-zoned land.

New infrastructure

We’re:

  • planning and delivering infrastructure to support growth for the Aerotropolis and the South West Growth Area
  • developing an Upper South Creek Advanced Water Recycling CentreThis external link will open in a new window to underpin growth services within the region
  • investigating bioenergy service options to support the Agribusiness Precinct
  • constructing 14 kilometres of trunk mains along the Northern Road, Oran Park, to cater for growth
  • amplifying the water network to increase capacity to support initial growth in the Mamre Road Precinct
  • providing recycled water to 12,400 homes as part of the Hoxton Park Recycled Water Scheme (when the homes have been built). In the meantime, we’re looking at how we can use the recycled water infrastructure to reduce the demand on drinking water by using recycled water to build other infrastructure in Western Sydney

Improving infrastructure

We’re:

  • upgrading existing wastewater network and treatment facilities, such as the St Marys, Quakers Hill, Rouse Hill and West Camden water recycling plants to support future growth
  • developing the servicing strategy for delivering major infrastructure, considering how existing plants can be used in the meantime to service initial growth for the Aerotropolis
  • progressively linking Prospect and Macarthur water delivery systems to support growth.

Learn more:

 

Water is a vital resource for Australia’s new parkland city.

 

Urban Typologies and Stormwater Management (4MB)

A summary of the Western Parkland City Urban Typologies and Stormwater Solutions report

 

Re-imagining water in Western Sydney (9MB)

Western Sydney Regional Master Plan

 

Cooling Western Sydney (7MB)

The role of water in mitigating urban heat in Western Sydney

 

South Creek Urban cooling modelling (6MB)

This report models the impact of urban cooling around South Creek

 

Western Parkland City: Urban Typologies and Stormwater Solutions (Part 1) (6MB)

Introduction and A Wianamatta water management approach

 

Western Parkland City: Urban Typologies and Stormwater Solutions (Part 2) (5MB)

A Wianamatta water management approach

 

Western Parkland City: Urban Typologies and Stormwater Solutions (Part 3) (6MB)

The role of lots, streets and open spaces and Building typologies

 

Western Parkland City: Urban Typologies and Stormwater Solutions (Part 4) (5MB)

Building typologies

 

Western Parkland City: Urban Typologies and Stormwater Solutions (Part 5) (5MB)

Illustrative precincts and Conclusions and recommendations