A private landowner is seeking to redevelop a 7,555 sqm site at 32 – 48 Silverwater Road and 1 – 17 Grey Street in Silverwater into a 12-storey mixed-use development delivering around 280 apartments alongside a supermarket, pub, childcare centre, commercial offices, five food and drink premises and eight retail tenancies.
The site, currently occupied by a mix of vacant land, single-storey houses and small warehouse buildings, is zoned E3 productivity support under the Parramatta LEP. Both shop-top housing and retail premises are prohibited under this zone.
The owner is rezoning the site to lift the height from 14 metres to 48 metres, increase the FSR from 1:1 to 5.4:1 and introduce additional permitted uses for residential and retail.
The site has a long planning history. Two planning proposals seeking rezoning and increased controls were refused in 2014 and 2018, with a third being withdrawn. A DA for a commercial-only scheme at an FSR of 1.95:1 was eventually approved by the Land and Environment Court in June 2025.
The current proposal goes considerably further, using the Housing Delivery Authority to bypass the conventional planning proposal process and pursue residential-led mixed-use on employment-zoned land.
The Parramatta Employment Lands Strategy already flags the Silverwater Road Precinct as an investigation area for potential alternate uses.
The non-residential component is locked in at a minimum 1.9:1 FSR.
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