Sydney unveils bold Woollahra station plan promising 10,000 new homes and faster CBD travel in just 8 minutes

In what is set to be a new initiative from the Sydney government, the Central Business District of Sydney is set to build at least 10,000 new homes for the passengers across the board living amidst these areas.

Australia’s Associated Press reports that following claims of unsubstantiated living-areas in and around Sydney, there is a structure to be built along the lines.

What we know so far


The new housing scheme is set to be placed at Woollahra to Sydney’s new rail line, and shall make travel faster by up to 8 minutes, as earlier, there was only rail connectivity from Bondi Junction (1.5 kms from Woollahra) to Martin Place in CBD, for people who would want to travel from Woolahra to Sydney CBD, and now betters it with the new Woolahra railway station, essentially creating direct connectivity.

NSW government plans to complete Woollahra Station and allow up to 10,000 new homes to be built nearby. This involves rezoning to permit higher-density housing.

Such a scheme was already predicted to be in place, and levelling structures has not been of more importance to the Australian Government as of now, than before, as according to a report by the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE), from the Australian government in 2006, titled, ‘Optimising Harmonisation in the Australian Railway Industry’, stated that the regulatory track record in Australia in the last decade (10 years before 2006), was one of regulatory instability.

State regulation or inconsistent claims?

The report continues, as it states, that since the establishment of State regulatory bodies in the 1990s, the regulators have sought to maintain consistency.

Despite the signing of intergovernmental agreements on “rail safety” and on “rail operational uniformity” (in 1996, and 1999, respectively), jurisdictional safety regulators continued to develop safety regulations on an individual basis. Regulatory systems diverged from the outset.

The extraction of safety oversight and accident investigation from the core railway activities to external safety regulators has increased the interfaces as has the introduction of access regulators, states the report.

This is not a uniquely Australian trend. Indeed, mandated access and structural regulation have become commonplace in many other countries in the last decade, adds the report.

However, what is uniquely Australian is the extent to which the regulation is undertaken at a sub-national level. In this context, the number of interfaces is significantly greater, and therefore more complex, than those other countries.

The current mechanism orchestrated by the Australian government

“Social housing agency Homes NSW does not have any land-holdings around the station and has not been investigating providing social and affordable housing in the area,” says Housing Minister, Rose Jackson.

The Glenfield to Leppington lines, which have also been set up earlier, in 2015, is set to further this initiative, and might and most likely corroborate a stark recollection of what the government systemises and permits with retribution to a social cause.

The move takes place as a structure for developers to build ‘affordable housing’ in areas which call for checks and balances before any such approval.