Bays West

Bays West is one of Sydney’s most significant urban renewal opportunities, encompassing Glebe Island and waterfront land surrounding the White Bay Power Station and Rozelle Bay located 2 km from the Sydney CBD. 

The precinct will build on its natural, cultural and industrial history to shape a new housing, employment and destination precinct supported by the future Bays Metro Station and wider transport network.

Located just minutes from the Sydney CBD it will be transformed into an inclusive and vibrant waterfront community, delivering:

• up to 8,500 well-located homes, including a minimum of 10 per cent affordable and essential worker housing
• improved access via it’s own Metro station, with new walking and cycling links and a future ferry wharf
• new public open spaces and enhanced waterfront access, opening the waterfront to the public for the first time in more than 100 years
• strengthening White Bay Power Station as a cultural and community destination at the heart of Bays West.

The NSW Government will lead the transformation of Bays West which includes an international design competition for Glebe Island and the White Bay Power Station Precinct to guide development, ensuring homes, essential infrastructure, jobs, public spaces and transport links are delivered together.

The Bays West Delivery Authority has been established as a development corporation under the Growth Centres (Development Corporations) Act 1974, responsible for promoting, coordinating, managing and securing the orderly and economic development of Bays West and Blackwattle Bay.

The Robert Street State–Led Rezoning will explore how land around the White Bay Power Station and Glebe Island can enable new homes, public open space, jobs and walking and cycling links into the broader Bays West precinct.

For more information, visit the NSW Planning Portal.

This Rezoning Proposal seeks to redevelop land around Glebe Island and White Bay Power Station to enable well located homes, access to metro and new public open space as well as supporting White Bay Power Station as a cultural and community destination at the heart of Bays West Precinct.

For more information, visit the NSW Planning Portal.

Lendlease intends to submit a concurrent Concept and Rezoning Proposal which will be assessed by the NSW Government. The proposal seeks to redevelop Rozelle Bay to create a mixed-use, transport-oriented precinct comprising up to 3,000 dwellings and activated public domain.

For more information, please visit the NSW Planning Portal.

Bays West Stage 1 Master Plan

Bays West Stage 1 Master Plan and the Rezoning Package were approved in December 2022.

The rezoning proposal outlines planning controls to guide the development of a new centre for Bays West around the future Bays Metro station and White Bay Power Station.

The documents for the Stage 1 rezoning are available on the NSW Planning Portal.