Sydney to be transformed with three CBDs and 800,000 new homes

Greater Sydney will have three CBDs, new jobs for Western suburbs and new housing for Eastern suburbs under the NSW’s government’s new 20-year plan. It projects Sydney will need an additional 800,000 homes and 950,000 jobs in the next 20 years and sets out how successive local and state governments can stay ahead of the city’s needs. The framework, dubbed the “Sydney Plan”, aims to build a ‘nodal’ network of 30 interconnected centres with three main CBD areas in Sydney, Parramatta and Bradfield. MORE: Sydney suburbs where ‘four times as many’ homes are being built Planning Minister Paul Scully said the NSW government would seek to co-ordinate efforts across each level of government. Picture: Monique Harmer MORE: ‘Third-world’: Bleak photo shames booming Sydney suburb Planning Minister Paul Scully said the plan provides a road map for where homes, jobs and infrastructure should be built to support growing communities. “This is about planning ahead, not catching up, so Sydney has the homes it needs for the next 30 years and beyond,” Mr Scully said. “It also locks in a requirement for an ongoing pipeline of feasible housing supply, so we do not find ourselves back in the position we a...