Mayor’s message

We can leverage off the employment, educational and housing opportunities that come with investment and make Bankstown a truly vibrant, livable and productive city.

The Master Plan delivers on the vision of our Local Strategic Planning Statement “Connective City 2036” along with the Greater Sydney Commission’s Planning Priorities in the South District Plan.

We will provide capacity in planning controls to accommodate up to 25,000 jobs, 25,000 students and 12,500 new dwellings by 2036. Our city will be an active and vibrant centre, our economic engine room, and a place that serves the needs of our city.

The Bankstown of the future will feature a high-quality public domain with widened footpaths, new landscaping, an integrated bicycle path network and a place where ecologically centred living is a reality. We will encourage high quality buildings that are connected to new and enhanced open space. Bankstown City Centre will be carbon neutral by 2050, requiring high standards in ecological sustainability.

I look forward to the future of Bankstown growing into a thriving centre for present and future generations. It is imperative that the community helps shape the future of Bankstown and that we, the Council, continues to listen throughout this process. Following community engagement, this plan will become the framework for changes to planning controls in the Bankstown City Centre.

Bankstown is our most strategically important centre and we need to ensure the conditions are right to encourage new development that meets the needs of our growing city. This Master Plan is Council’s foundation to realise Bankstown as the vibrant, green, connected and active centre of our City and a place where people from across Greater Sydney and beyond will come to work, learn, live and visit.

Khal Asfour Mayor, City of Canterbury-Bankstown