1. Investing to support Western Sydney's growth
Delivering improved housing and liveable communities in Western Sydney
A faster planning system
The NSW Government is committed to creating well-designed, liveable and thriving communities in Western Sydney. The Government is aligning the delivery of new housing with generational investments in the Western Sydney International Airport, Western Sydney Aerotropolis, Bradfield and the Sydney Metro.
These transformative investments will generate tens of thousands of jobs and are securing the prosperity of Western Sydney. The Government is committed to supporting these investments with the delivery of well-designed, diverse housing options built close to where people will work or commute. This Budget
supports investment in housing to get the homes people need built faster without compromising on quality.
The NSW Government’s Pre-Sale Finance Guarantee will guarantee pre-sales for up to $1.0 billion of approved housing projects on a rolling basis, helping developers access finance and start construction sooner. More than 70,000 homes are currently under construction across New South Wales, more than any
other State. A large proportion of these new homes will be in growth areas in Western Sydney.
This Budget provides $72.8 million of additional planning resources to accelerate planning approvals, including for social and affordable housing. The Housing Delivery Authority is being expanded, with $10.6 million to accelerate housing approvals via a State Significant Pathway.
The Budget also invests $145.1 million to support the ongoing work of the Building Commission NSW to reform the building and construction industry and improve consumer outcomes, ensuring we can accelerate development without compromising on quality.
Communities in the Transport Oriented Development Accelerated Precincts of Bankstown, Bella Vista and Kellyville will benefit from the $520.0 million investment in community infrastructure such as active transport links and good quality open spaces. Councils in Western Sydney can also access the $200.0 million Faster Assessments Program announced in the 2024-25 Budget to help meet our housing targets in NSW.
Delivering three Metros
The Sydney Metro is the largest public transport project in Australia’s history. This $60.0 billion investment project already has 21 operating stations and the Government is now working to deliver an additional 25 new Metro stations benefitting Western Sydney.
This includes:
- $10.8 billion over four years for the Sydney Metro West – connecting Greater Parramatta with the Sydney CBD
- $3.6 billion over four years for the Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport – connecting the new Western Sydney Airport to St Marys and the rest of Sydney
- $801.4 millionover four years for the City to South West Metro to deliver the final stage of an extension of the M1 Line, transforming a 130-year-old former T3 Bankstown line into a modern metro between Sydenham and Bankstown.
Delivering the long-promised Aerotropolis
The Western Sydney Aerotropolis is set to become a thriving economic centre, potentially creating 120,000 new jobs for Western Sydney. Located around the new Western Sydney International Airport at Badgerys Creek, the Aerotropolis will be home to future-focused industries such as advanced manufacturing, research, training and education, freight and logistics and agribusiness.
After a decade of failed planning and underinvestment, the NSW Government, in partnership with the Australian Government, is getting the Aerotropolis back on track through proper coordination and serious investment.
The NSW Government and Australian Government have invested over $25.0 billion in infrastructure projects in the Aerotropolis including:
- $3.6 billion over four years for the Western Sydney Airport Metro – connecting the new Western Sydney International Airport to St Marys and the rest of Sydney
- more than $2.0 billion for the toll-free M12 Motorway
- more than $1.0 billion for enabling works to kickstart development at Bradfield City Centre, including the Advanced Manufacturing Readiness Facility, civil works and utilities, and Central Park
- $1.1 billion in the Upper South Creek Advanced Water Recycling Centre
- $950.0 million for the first stage of the Fifteenth Avenue upgrade between Liverpool and the new airport, taking the total investment to $1.0 billion
- $644.1 million for the integrated stormwater and recycled water scheme needed to deliver 850 hectares of industrial land in the Mamre Road Precinct
- $148.6 million for Western Sydney Aerotropolis safety and access road upgrades, incident management, wayfinding and planning for Devonshire Road.
The Government is also recruiting 52 new firefighters to staff the 24/7 station with a $42.2 million investment. This fire station is set to become the largest in South West Sydney and significantly expands our firefighting strength in the growth corridor, helping deliver on an election commitment to recruit 600 additional firefighters. This builds on the Government’s $15.4 million investment last year to deliver the new Badgerys Creek station, including three new fire trucks.
Major ongoing road projects for the AerotropolisMajor ongoing road projects in the Aerotropolis, jointly funded by the NSW and Australian Governments, include:
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Health infrastructure and services for a growing Western Sydney
The NSW Government has committed to a significant program of investment to meet the healthcare needs of all people across Western Sydney, both now and into the future.
An investment of $836.4 million in 2025-26 is being made in the Essential Health Services package to support core health services and reduce overdue surgeries. It also supports the opening of new and upgraded hospitals, including The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and funding for the Statewide Mental Health Infrastructure Program.
This Budget invests $15.4 million in 2025-26 to boost the community mental health workforce, and enhance mental health supports for young people with severe and complex mental illness including in Blacktown, Campbelltown and Penrith. The 2025-26 Budget also continues to invest in building the hospitals and health infrastructure Western Sydney needs to support a growing population.
This Budget includes $1.3 billion of additional funding to support the delivery of health facilities across Western Sydney including:
- $700.0 million in additional funding for the New Bankstown Hospital to effectively integrate hospital inpatient services in the centre of Bankstown. This increases the total investment in the New Bankstown Hospital from $1.3 billion to $2.0 billion
- $492.0 million to develop a Statewide Pathology Hub on the Westmead campus that will support the delivery of local and statewide clinical pathology, public health, medical research and essential specialised support services
- additional State funding of $90.0 million to provide the full range of maternity and birthing services as part of the new Rouse Hill Hospital, with a further $120.0 million also announced by the Australian Government. These two funding commitments increase the total investment for the new hospital project to $910.0 million
- $40.1 million to fit out level 13 of the new Paediatric Services Building at Westmead in partnership with the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation. This will house the Kookaburra Centre and offer a multidisciplinary model of care specifically designed to cater for young patients with chronic, complex and rare health conditions. This increases the investment in the redevelopment of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead (Stage 2) to $659.1 million
- $22.3 million to establish a new paediatric hospice at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead to support children and young people with life-limiting illness and their families
- $3.0 million to increase palliative care capacity across Camden and Campbelltown Hospitals. This will enable the expansion of sub-acute capacity at Camden Hospital and create an acute Palliative Care Ward at the redeveloped Campbelltown Hospital.
This brings total investment in new and upgraded hospitals across Western Sydney to more than $3.4 billion over the next four years and includes the continued delivery of:
- more than $1.0 billion for the Nepean Hospital and Integrated Ambulatory Services Stage 1 and Stage 2
- $780.0 million for the Liverpool Health and Academic Precinct, which will transform Liverpool Hospital into a clinical hub for innovation and medical research to meet the growing health care needs of the community
- $550.0 million for the Fairfield Hospital Redevelopment to provide the community with new and enhanced integrated health care services closer to home.
Rebuilding education in Western Sydney
School infrastructure
The NSW Government is committed to delivering world-class facilities so every child in Western Sydney can access a high-quality education in their local area.
This Budget invests $3.9 billion over four years to maintain, upgrade and build new public schools across Western Sydney.
In the past 12 months alone, the NSW Government has opened nine new and upgraded schools: Birrong Boys and Girls High Schools, Box Hill temporary Public School, Castle Hill Public School, Gledswood Hills temporary High School, Matthew Pearce Public School, Melonba Public School and Melonba High School, and Wentworth Point High School.
Construction has also commenced on the new Gables Public School, the new Tallawong Public School and the Eagle Vale High School Upgrade.
The 2025-26 Budget builds on this progress by investing in the following new projects in Western Sydney:
- Emerald Hills new primary school, including a new preschool
- Ermington West Public School Upgrade
- Excelsior Public School Upgrade
- Grantham Farm new primary school, including a new preschool
- Newington Public School Upgrade
- Rydalmere Public School Upgrade
- Rydalmere East Public School Upgrade
- Wilton new high school.
A further investment will expand high potential and gifted education opportunities (HPGE) in Western Sydney, delivering upgrades to specialist facilities at:
- Casula High School
- Cranebrook High School
- Glenmore Park High School
- Holroyd High School
- James Busby High School
- James Meehan High School
- Lurnea High School
- Mitchell High School
- Sarah Redfern High School.
These schools will join Chifley College Dunheved Campus and Windsor High School in the HPGE Partner School Program.
Rebuilding public education
Investment by the NSW Government to address the teacher shortage crisis it inherited includes scrapping the wages cap, delivering a historic pay rise for teachers, reducing excessive administrative workload, making thousands of teachers permanent and valuing the profession.
This has led to schools in Western Sydney starting the 2025 school year with 28 per cent fewer vacancies than the same time in 2023, and 54 per cent fewer vacancies from the peak of the teacher shortage crisis in 2022.
Significant reductions in vacancies have occurred in schools in Penrith LGA (down 62 per cent from the peak), Cumberland LGA (down 60 per cent), Parramatta LGA (down 57 per cent), Fairfield LGA (down 54 per cent) and The Hills LGA (down 73 per cent).
Agreement (Better and Fairer Schools Agreement) with the Australian Government to fully and fairly fund New South Wales public schools. As part of the Agreement, an estimated $10.4 billion in additional funding will flow through to New South Wales public schools over the next 10 years; the biggest-ever new investment in New South Wales public schools by the Australian Government, representing $5.6 billion investment from the NSW Government and $4.8 billion from the Australian Government.
The NSW Government also launched a nation-leading number screening check for Year 1 students as part of its plan to lift numeracy outcomes and provide teachers with the opportunity for early intervention. Across Western Sydney, 46 schools are taking part in the trial, including Eastern Creek Public School, Seven Hills Public School, Greenacre Public School, Epping West Public School, Bringelly Public School and Hammondville Public School.
Early childhood education and care
The NSW Government is stepping up to fix the early childhood education and care market, including through better regulation of private and not-for-profit services.
The NSW Government has also made a historic investment to deliver 100 new preschools by 2027, of which 51 will be located in Western Sydney. The first of these preschools at Gulyangarri Public School in Liverpool opened in October 2024, with construction now underway on public preschools at Blackett Public School, Miller Public School and Cabramatta West Public School.
A contract has now been awarded to design and construct 40 further public preschools across Western Sydney, which will deliver places for up to 3,600 children. These include Lynwood Park Public School, Fairfield West Public School, Granville South Public School, Thomas Acres Public School, Blacktown North Public School and Shalvey Public School.
This Budget also invests $10.0 million in 2025-26 to progress work on expanding the public provision of early childhood education and care in New South Wales, including Western Sydney.
Better roads and transport
In partnership with the Australian Government, this Budget invests $5.5 billion over four years in new and improved roads across Western Sydney through an additional $1.3 billion investment. This includes additional funding to deliver the following projects, with total project costs of:
- $1.0 billion for the first stage of the Fifteenth Avenue Upgrade between Liverpool and the new airport
- $220.0 million for Henry Lawson Drive Stage 1B
- $200.0 million for Homebush Bay Drive
- $80.0 million for the Western Sydney Heavy Vehicle Rest Area
- $74.0 million for planning for the Richmond Road Corridor Upgrade
- $25.0 million for Toongabbie Bridge Enabling Works
- $25.0 million for planning for the Devonshire Link Road and Bradfield Metro Link Road
- $10.0 million for planning for Rouse Hill Hospital Transport Integration Works
- $3.5 million for the Francis Road Rail Overpass in Rooty Hill
- $3.4 million for Coreen Avenue and Coombes Drive Upgrades
- $1.9 million for Coreen Avenue and Lemongrove Road signals
- $1.5 million for the Flushcombe Road/Bungarribee Road intersection in Blacktown.
Investment in this Budget brings the total investment in Western Sydney roads since March 2023 to $7.4 billion.
This Budget also invests $150.0 million to improve bus services across New South Wales, including Western Sydney.
Connecting Sydney's growing North WestThis Budget includes $171.0 million of new funding to build and plan road upgrades in Sydney’s growing North West, in partnership with the Australian Government.
These investments build on the more than $2.0 billion already committed to building new and upgraded roads for North West Sydney. |
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