The NSW Government has put a draft rezoning of 168 hectares around Edgecliff and Woollahra on exhibition, setting up up to 9,400 new homes across Sydney’s east.
The plan is built around a station that has waited half a century to open. Platforms for Woollahra station were poured in the 1970s as part of the Eastern Suburbs line, then abandoned after local residents fought the project all the way to the High Court and won enough delay to kill it. The cutting off Edgecliff Road has sat as an unfinished “ghost station” ever since, visible from passing trains but never fitted out. Construction resumes in 2027, with the station opening in 2029 and cutting the trip to the CBD to eight minutes.
Heights around the two stations run up to 34 storeys at Edgecliff and 32 storeys at Woollahra, with up to 40 percent of new dwellings sited within 200 metres of a platform. An expanded mixed-use Edgecliff Centre and a new Woollahra local centre are pitched to add around 1,000 local jobs.
Affordable housing sits at a 3 percent contribution across the precinct, rising to 15 percent in perpetuity on certain sites. The NSW Productivity Commission has previously rated Woollahra the most feasible local government area in the state to build new housing, despite approvals there consistently lagging other councils.
Open space gets a parallel upgrade: 7 new parks and up to 9 kilometres of walking and cycling links are proposed, with roughly 3.5 hectares of new and upgraded space spread across 13 parks precinct-wide. Ninety-five percent of new homes will sit within 400 metres of open space of at least 3,000 square metres. Heritage items are to be retained and built around rather than removed.
Development near the new station will help pay for it. A Transport Project Component contribution of $15,000 per dwelling, or $200 per square metre of new commercial floor space, applies within 800 metres of Woollahra station under the government’s value capture model.
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