WAM is leading a collaborative team providing masterplan, place analysis, yield testing and open space place making services for the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure as part of a State-led rezoning process to provide an additional 9,350 homes around the Cherrybrook Metro Station precinct.
Recreation areas and public spaces will become social hotspots for residents while preserving the precinct’s leafy character. New apartments near the town centre will provide housing diversity and affordability, with convenient access to public transport.
The Cherrybrook Precinct Rezoning Proposal imagines a well-connected, walkable community made up of ‘green neighbourhoods’. Increased tree canopy coverage will maintain the area’s leafy quality, while new walking and cycling connections and local parks in each neighbourhood will make it easier for residents to move around and access the Cherrybrook metro station.
Innovation in the Cherrybrook masterplan lies in its ability to balance density, diversity, and community benefit within a green and connected framework. By right-sizing development parcels, the plan enables delivery of a broad mix of typologies that can accommodate social, affordable, and build-to-rent housing without defaulting to repetitive high-rise outcomes.
This approach to urban planning fosters inclusivity and supports different household needs across life stages. The plan also introduces staged infrastructure delivery by linking new roads, parks, and open spaces with development triggers, ensuring growth aligns with population thresholds.
A country-informed approach recognises the enduring value of Indigenous history being embedded within strategic planning to create a resilient, socially integrated precinct model.
Highlights of the draft Cherrybrook Precinct Rezoning Proposal include:
What a win for housing, doing density well, transport and jobs creation
