Meadowbank Education and Employment Precinct

The Meadowbank Education and Employment Precinct will reimagine the way we learn and connect.

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The growing community in the Meadowbank area is set to receive brand new, purpose-built education facilities by 2022.

Building on the opportunity for Ryde to be a centre of excellence for education, the core area of the Precinct will feature new primary and secondary schools and improved TAFE NSW Meadowbank facilities.

With education at its heart, the wider Precinct will connect students to training and employment opportunities with local industry and the surrounding community. It will be a safe place where locals can access shared facilities and open spaces while also ensuring that the primary school and secondary school are separated with clearly identifiable entrances for each school.

Recently commended at the Greater Sydney Planning Awards 2020 for placed-based collaboration.

A bold new Place Vision for the Meadowbank Education and Employment Precinct

The NSW Government’s Place Vision for the Precinct sets out a road map for its delivery. 

Alongside the Master Plan, the Place Vision will help ensure the benefits of the Precinct are realised for the Meadowbank community by:

  1. Creating new opportunities for employment and business to come together
  2. Piloting a new model of cooperation between education institutions and business, to smooth student transitions from different levels of education to the workplace
  3. Delivering an accessible and attractive precinct that integrates with its surrounds and creates opportunities to share knowledge, services and infrastructure.

Master Plan for the Precinct

The Greater Sydney Commission has released a Master Plan for the Meadowbank Education and Employment Precinct with ideas for an integrated, accessible and liveable Precinct.

The Master Plan identifies ways to create a highly connected Precinct that complements Meadowbank’s heritage and environment. It identifies:

  • open spaces within the Precinct
  • opportunities to locate industry and business in and around the Precinct
  • links to industry and local employment
  • potential infrastructure to support the Precinct over the long term, including public and active transport options
  • ways to revitalise surrounding sites and grow productivity. 

The Master Plan also delivers on the Greater Sydney Commission’s District Plan priorities – infrastructure and collaboration, liveability, productivity and sustainability.

Relocated schools

To cater for the growing community and ensure students have access to the best possible learning facilities, Meadowbank Public School and Marsden High School will be relocated to new facilities within the Precinct. 

The new primary school and new secondary school facilities will significantly increase capacity from Meadowbank Public School and Marsden High School’s current facilities, increase connectivity to major transport hubs, and offer students contemporary and flexible learning spaces.

Construction commenced in July 2020.

When completed, the new facilities will cater for:

  • 1000 primary students

  • 1500 secondary students

  • 120 intensive English students

The relocated schools will feature:

  • a primary school and a secondary school with facilities integrated into the landscape
  • contemporary, multi-purpose and flexible learning spaces
  • open green space for sporting and recreation activities
  • the Wallamattagal learning centre
  • opportunities for students to complete primary, secondary and vocational education at one campus.

The NSW Government is proposing to convert the old Meadowbank Public School site into a new open space recreation area and community park, and the old Marsden High School site into a community sporting facility with state-of-the-art netball courts.

The NSW Government is investing $6.7 billion over four years to deliver more than 190 new and upgraded schools to support communities across NSW. In addition, a record $1.3 billion is being spent on school maintenance over five years, along with a record $500 million for the sustainable Cooler Classrooms program to provide air conditioning to schools. This is the largest investment in public education infrastructure in the history of NSW.

The NSW Department of Education is committed to delivering new and upgraded schools for communities across NSW. The delivery of these important projects is essential to the future learning needs of our students and supports growth in the local economy.

The schools State Significant Development Application (SSDA) was approved by the Department of Planning and Environment on 21 May 2020.

Technology focussed TAFE NSW Meadowbank

The NSW Government is investing $154 million to transform TAFE NSW Meadowbank into a technology-focussed campus.

The new facilities will:

  • cater for the needs of students at all stages of their lives
  • address the changing nature of the workforce by offering practical training experiences that support employability
  • include modern, flexible and future-proofed learning spaces
  • provide increased opportunities for industry partnerships and collaboration onsite
  • improve student experience and amenity.

The transformed TAFE NSW Meadowbank will feature:

  • new Multi-Trades and Digital Technology Hub, to provide a unique industry innovation and collaboration space, transforming training delivery to be more digitally interactive and industry-focussed
  • improved campus access to the railway station. 

The TAFE NSW State Significant Development Application (SSDA) was exhibited from 24 October 2019 to 20 November 2019.

TAFE NSW’s response to submissions and an amended proposal was exhibited from 4 June 2020 to 18 June 2020. 

The TAFE SSDA was approved by the Department of Planning and Environment on 15 September 2020.

TAFE NSW is seeking partnership opportunities at the Meadowbank Education and Employment Precinct – TAFE NSW Digital Technology Centre of Excellence.

Key dates to have your say

Consultations closed on 18 June 2020 for TAFE NSW’s response to submissions and amended proposal for the TAFE NSW Meadowbank State Significant Development (SSDA).

Consultations closed on 20 November 2019 for the new schools SSDA and preliminary Master Plan.

Consultation documents and public submissions remain available under ‘Key links’ on this page.

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The NSW Government is committed to working with the local community and stakeholders and is considering issues that have been raised. We will continue to listen and engage as the project progresses. 

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Aerial view of Meadowbank Education Precinct

Master Plan for the Precinct

The Greater Sydney Commission has prepared a preliminary Master Plan with ideas for an integrated, accessible and liveable Precinct.
Artists impression of the transformed TAFE NSW Meadowbank

Students better equipped for jobs of the future

Thousands of students will be able to study at the state's first technology-focussed TAFE NSW campus in the Meadowbank Education and Employment Precinct from 2022.
Artist impression of the Meadowbank Education and Employment Precinct High School entrance

Construction underway for new schools at Meadowbank

More than 1500 school students are closer to learning in multi-purpose and flexible learning spaces now that construction has started at the Meadowbank Education and Employment Precinct.

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