Close to 4000 new low and medium density homes will be built in Menangle Park, located inside the Campbelltown local government area, over the next decade or so.
Construction is under way on the first two stages of the development, pictured.
Around just five or six kilometres away is the sleepy Menangle village, which is located within the boundaries of Wollondilly Shire Council.
Plans are afoot to gain approval to build almost 2000 new homes, a combination of medium and low density on Mount Taurus, Woodbridge Road, Menangle.
According to historical records, Mount Taurus was named by Governor John Hunter when he travelled to the area in 1795.
On climbing a hill to view the land, the second Governor of the colony of NSW, sighted a herd of wild cattle, the progeny of two bulls and four cows that had wandered off from Sydney Cove in May, 1788, and named the hill Mount Taurus and the area the Cowpastures.
The draft proposal was submitted to council for consideration by a company called Mulpha Australia Limited.
New retail, commercial, educational and open space facilities form part of the draft proposal submitted to the council.
Wollondilly Council says it has not considered or formed a view on the proposal.
So it has gone down the road of seeking early community and stakeholder feedback on a draft planning proposal to develop Mount Taurus for housing.
For the development to go ahead, amendments would need to be made to the land use zone, the minimum lot size requirements for subdivision, the maximum building height and removing some land from the Menangle Landscape Conservation Area.
“I’d like to make it clear that at this stage, council officers have not assessed this proposal, nor has the elected council considered or formed a view on the proposal,” says Wollondilly Mayor Matt Gould.
“This preliminary notification is about seeking important community feedback prior to the proposal being reported to council.
“We genuinely want to know what Wollondilly residents and business think about these amendments and I encourage everybody to have their say at this early stage of the process.
“Initial advice from staff is that this proposal is not consistent with council’s vision for Wollondilly, outlined in our Local Strategic Planning Statement Wollondilly 2040.”
Information on the draft planning proposal is available on Your Say Wollondilly, www.yoursay.wollondilly.nsw.gov.au
Written feedback is invited and will inform the assessment of the draft planning proposal to establish whether it has strategic planning merit.
This will include an assessment of whether the draft planning proposal is in line with the land use vision and priorities for the Shire set out in Wollondilly 2040, Council’s local strategic planning statement.
The closing date for submissions is June 1.
The outcome of the early feedback will be reported to the Wollondilly Shire Local Planning Panel for advice before council makes a decision.
