I live in Werrington County and Werrington Downs what impact will the development of the ADI Site have on me?

 If you live in any of the following streets near to the ADI Site chances are life as you know it will change forever:

What is planned for this area and why will it affect me?

Delfin Lend Lease now owns the ADI Site and they want to build three large suburbs and several industrial areas. The State Governments Planners, DIPNR, has rezoned the ADI Site to allow development but Delfin still need Penrith Council to approve their final plans. They have already achieved this for their first suburb, Ropes Crossing, in the Blacktown Council area.

The State Government is allowing Delfin to build a suburb behind existing houses in Werrington County and Werrington Downs. Sydney Regional Environmental Plan 30 St Marys (SREP 30), which zones the ADI Site, refers to this area as the Central Precinct.

The National Parks and Wildlife Service informed ADI RAG that DIPNR has agreed to re-align a major access road in the Central Precinct so that it runs along the Werrington County fence line. If this happens residents living along the fence line will have cars and trucks driving past their backyards at all hours, spoiling the open space views currently enjoyed. Add this to the fact that this area will be filled with houses and this is not a great outcome. Add these to the fact that over 60 ha of this suburb are floodplain and is to be filled with imported fill materials carried by huge trucks and this is turning into a nightmare.

Further up the fence line in Werrington Downs SREP 30 allows Delfin Lend Lease to bulldoze 7.4 hectares of National Estate listed bushland within the proposed Regional Park for a drainage basin. Residents there probably believed they were safe from seeing development. The removal of this huge area of rare vegetation for a drainage basin is completely unnecessary, as Penrith Council already owns a fully functional drainage basin behind Wintercorn Row. Why duplicate another basin when Councils one is perfectly all right? If this is allowed these residents will lose views they have enjoyed for 25 years. Penrith Council must stand up for residents to stop this.

Delfin Lend Lease is currently seeking approval from Penrith Council to build an industrial estate on Links Rd called the Dunheved Industrial Precinct. Council wants to build a new road joining Links Rd to Christie St and Dunheved Rd. This link will add more cars and trucks to Dunheved Rd, which is already stressed. Residents of the new Central suburb will also use this road to get to Dunheved Rd, meaning Dunheved Rd could become far worse.

If you want to stop this then you need to inform the NSW Planning Minister Frank Sartor and the Mayor and Councillors of Penrith Council.

 The answer is no development of the rest of the ADI Site.

Email Frank Sartor, Mayor of Penrith, John Thain and Penrith Councillors

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