Plans for a $3.2 billion, eight-tower waterfront precinct delivering greater than 1,800 houses and expansive public open area have been submitted for Rhodes in Sydney’s Internal West.
The state vital improvement software – submitted to the New South Wales Division of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI) – covers a 3.1-hectare space comprising 4 amalgamated websites on the northern tip of the Rhodes peninsula, fronting Cavell Avenue, Averill Road and Leeds Road. The positioning has direct frontage to the Parramatta River.
Designed by SJB, the proposed masterplan accommodates eight residential towers and 16,000 sq. metres of recent public open area, together with services for sport and water actions and a retail and eating precinct.
The undertaking goals to unlock beforehand privately owned industrial land on the foreshore and set up linked strolling and biking paths alongside the river. SJB accomplice and concrete designer Frankie Layson mentioned the Rhodes Bay masterplan “integrates social infrastructure, helps an activated foreshore precinct, and calibrates peak, daylight and open-space outcomes to create a high-amenity, mixed-use waterfront district.”
Developer Billbergia mentioned the masterplan builds on the 2021 Rhodes Place Technique, a long-term planning framework to ascertain further housing, workplaces, and public open area within the precinct.
Plans are anticipated to be publicly exhibited in early 2026, and building is predicted to begin in phases from late 2026, topic to approval.
