Government Vision For Cherrybrook : An Infrastructure Crisis
The Hills Shire Council has strongly rejected the NSW Government’s State-led rezoning proposal for the Cherrybrook Station Precinct, warning it will overwhelm infrastructure and undermine years of strategic planning.
Council has resolved to request a pause to the implementation of the proposal and will request an urgent meeting with the Minister for Planning and Public Spaces Paul Scully MP to discuss serious concerns with the proposal.
The state proposal seeks to replace the previously endorsed Cherrybrook Place Strategy with a plan to build 9,320 dwellings on the 55-hectare site, nearly triple the amount of the original strategy.
Of these, approximately 5,000 apartments are earmarked for the Hills side of the Cherrybrook Station Precinct– a dramatic quadrupling from the previously planned 1,275 units.
Building heights would also soar under the Minns Government plan, rising from a five-storey cap to as high as 19 storeys south of Castle Hill Road and 28 storeys to the north.
