Glenfield development finally moved from plans to paperwork in 2026. So far I count 7 live projects in the suburb, and together they point to around 5,200 homes on Landcom’s land west of the station, plus a 16.9 ha warehouse estate in the north. Then the newest news landed on 25 September, when the state approved a 120-unit affordable apartment building on Roy Watts Road. The biggest question is still open, though. A rezoning that would lift the western side from 3,900 homes to about 5,200 finished exhibition in June and is still waiting on a decision.
Written by Daniel Whitfield, founder of Australia Develops. An accountant by background who has bought land and built a home himself, he researches property development and planning across Australia using council reports, planning records and government data.
Where is Glenfield?
Glenfield is in the Campbelltown City Council area, postcode 2167, about 36 km south-west of the Sydney CBD. It’s a short drive south of Liverpool and also about 13 km north-east of Campbelltown’s CBD (not the Auckland suburb). In fact, its station is the junction where the T2 Leppington and Inner West, T5 Cumberland and T8 Airport and South lines meet.
Glenfield Development 2026 — The Pipeline
First, I went through the NSW Planning Portal, the Sydney Western City Planning Panel register, the state’s major projects list and Landcom’s own updates. In short, these are the Glenfield development projects that are real, numbered and moving.
| # | Project / address | Developer | Scale | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glenfield West rezoning, land west of the station | Landcom (DPHI decides) | 3,900 to about 5,200 homes, up to 22 storeys | Post-exhibition, under assessment |
| 2 | Concept plan and Stage 1, Roy Watts Road | Landcom | 6 development lots; 18 terraces and about 500 apartments | Approved 26 Nov 2025; works under way |
| 3 | Glenfield Affordable Housing, Lot 12 Roy Watts Road | Landcom | 120 affordable units, 7 to 8 storeys, $75.6m | Approved 25 Sep 2026 |
| 4 | Stage 2 subdivision, west of the station | Landcom | Lots for detached homes and terraces | DA lodged; decision record not located |
| 5 | 2 Hosking Crescent | Glenfield Holdings | 35 units, 88-place childcare, medical centre | Lodged; no published decision found |
| 6 | Glenfield Industrial Precinct 1, 2 Cambridge Avenue | J.C. & F.W. Kennett Pty Ltd | 2 warehouses, 72,840 m² GFA | State significant; response to submissions |
| 7 | Industrial rezoning, 2 Cambridge Avenue | Campbelltown and Liverpool councils | Rural and recreation land to E4 industrial | Gateway approved 8 Jul 2026 |
Where the Projects Sit
In fact, almost all of the Glenfield development housing sits on one side of the tracks. Landcom’s 108 ha holding runs west of the station, between the commuter car park, Roy Watts Road and Hurlstone Agricultural High School’s farmland. Stage 1, for example, hugs the station. Then Stage 2 and the western neighbourhood centre spread further out towards Campbelltown Road. Hosking Crescent, however, is on the eastern side, close to the shops on Railway Parade. The warehouse site is different again. It’s in the north at 2 Cambridge Avenue, near the Georges River as well as the Moorebank rail line.
PROJECT 1 — Glenfield development rezoning for about 5,200 homes west of the station
Status: Under assessment (exhibited 13 May to 11 June 2026; DPHI decision expected later in 2026)
Location: Roy Watts Road, Glenfield NSW 2167 and the land west of the station. The applicant is Landcom, and the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI) is the planning authority. In other words, it’s an amendment to the Campbelltown Local Environmental Plan 2015.
First, the big one. The state initially rezoned Glenfield in July 2021 for up to 7,000 homes, with more than 3,900 of them west of the rail line. Landcom now wants about 5,200 homes on the western side. According to the Planning Portal listing, that’s around 1,200 extra homes. It also lifts affordable housing from 5% to 10%. So a community housing provider would rent roughly 520 homes below market.
Heights and lot sizes across the Glenfield development
Heights also step down from the station. The minister’s 13 May release says buildings could reach 22 storeys near the station, then drop to 2 or 3 storeys in the west. Landcom’s breakdown is about 4,500 apartments, 400 terraces and other attached homes, as well as 300 detached houses. Lots near parks, however, could be as small as 125 m² to 300 m². In the heritage area south of the railway, the minimum lot size would also fall from 1,200 m² to 600 m².
There are 2 land figures floating around, but both are right. The rezoning itself covers an 85 ha Landcom site, as DPHI said when it announced 4 fast-tracked rezonings on 26 August 2025. But Landcom’s whole Glenfield project area is about 108 ha.
Town centre, parks and local concerns
What do locals get besides apartments? For example, the plan shows a town centre by the station with shops, cafés, a possible health hub and a potential primary school. There’s also a smaller neighbourhood centre in the west, plus new parks and sporting fields. In fact, Landcom says every home would be within about 400 m of a park. Hurlstone can also keep expanding its farm uses. The project would then roll out in stages over 15 years.
Still, not everyone is on board. For example, at a Landcom workshop in May 2025, residents raised congestion on roads to Campbelltown and a shortage of commuter parking. They also worried about crowded platforms at peak hour and Moorebank truck traffic on Cambridge Avenue. Those concerns sit in the submissions DPHI is now reading.
PROJECT 2 — Stage 1: around 518 homes on 6 lots at Roy Watts Road
Status: Approved (Sydney Western City Planning Panel, 26 November 2025); demolition and remediation under way
Address: Roy Watts Road and Railway Parade, Glenfield, on Lot 2 DP 1293342 and Lot 1617 DP 1282799. The developer is Landcom. Council’s number is 85/2025/DS-CD, while the panel reference is PPSSWC-523.
But this approval doesn’t build any homes by itself. Instead, it sets the street layout, open space, drainage and the height and floor space for each future lot. Then Stage 1 covers bulk earthworks, roads, stormwater, services and planting. It also subdivides the land into 6 development lots and 2 residue lots. The panel listed the capital investment value at $368.45 million.
How many homes Stage 1 will deliver
Landcom’s December 2025 newsletter says the 5 large lots allow 18 terrace houses as well as around 500 apartments. The sixth lot, by contrast, holds the affordable building in Project 3. However, council’s assessment report used an indicative 592 dwellings for traffic modelling. So treat roughly 500 to 600 homes as the honest range for Stage 1. The report also notes 2 objections, 158 trees to come out and a Glenfield Road culvert upgrade.
Where is it up to? Initially, old buildings near the commuter car park started coming down in July 2025, under a council-approved remediation plan for asbestos. Landcom expected that work to finish by mid-2026. After that, civil works for roads and footpaths follow in 2026. Landcom then plans to sell the lots to private developers in 2027, and they’ll build the apartments. That means the first Stage 1 residents are likely several years away.
PROJECT 3 — 120 affordable apartments at Lot 12 Roy Watts Road
Status: Approved (NSW Department of Planning, under delegation, 25 September 2026)
Address: Lot 12 Roy Watts Road, Glenfield, a 3,436 m² site a short walk from the station. The developer is Landcom, and the application is SSD-100271209.
This is the first actual building approved in the Glenfield development precinct. It’s a part 7, part 8-storey block with 120 units, topping out at 27.2 m. The mix is 52 1-bedroom, 56 2-bedroom and 12 3-bedroom units, as well as 61 car spaces. Also, every unit is affordable rental housing, and a community housing provider will manage it for at least 15 years. In addition, 6 units stay affordable in perpetuity.
The estimated cost is $75.6 million. Also, only 3 submissions came in, and none opposed it. Hill Thalis designed the building so it steps down a 3.5 m slope at ground level. Now the major projects record lists the decision as approved on 25/09/2026. Construction would then start in 2027, with completion expected in early 2029.
PROJECT 4 — Stage 2 lots for detached homes and terraces
Status: DA lodged with Campbelltown City Council (decision not confirmed in a public record I could find)
Address: Lot 2 Roy Watts Road, Glenfield. The developer is Landcom.
Stage 2, by contrast, is where the houses come in. Landcom said in December 2025 that it would lodge a DA to subdivide land for detached homes and terraces that month. Bulk earthworks would then follow in 2026, subject to approval. Its project page currently lists the Stage 2 subdivision DA as lodged in 2025. Landcom also expects Stage 2 civil works and detached lot sales from 2027.
Council’s register shows a second concept DA on Lot 2 Roy Watts Road, numbered 6421/2025/DA-CD. It covers road construction and stormwater, as well as subdivision. That looks like the Stage 2 application, but I couldn’t match it for certain. Then, in late September, one trade report said Stage 2 had been approved. Yet I couldn’t find a determination on the council or panel registers to back that up. So if you’re waiting to buy a Landcom house block, ask the sales team for the DA number and its decision date.
PROJECT 5 — 35 apartments, childcare and a medical centre at 2 Hosking Crescent
Status: Lodged (no published decision found as at October 2026)
Address: 2 Hosking Crescent, Glenfield, in the Glenfield East area. The applicant is Glenfield Holdings, while Design Link Australia is the architect. Council’s number is 3734/2024/DA-RA, and the panel reference is PPSSWC-502.
This is the only private apartment tower in the Glenfield development pipeline east of the line. The plan has 4 basement levels as well as 2 shops at ground level. A medical centre would take level 1, while an 88-place childcare centre would spread over 3 levels. Then apartments would fill levels 5 to 12, with a rooftop garden. In short, there are 35 1 and 2-bedroom units, including 7 affordable and 6 adaptable units. The proposal also includes 1,347 m² of non-residential floor space.
Trade press first reported it in November 2024. Since then, I haven’t found a panel determination or refusal on the public record. Campbelltown’s Part 15 Glenfield East planning rules started in June 2023, so this site falls under them. Next door, 8 Hosking Crescent, an 879 m² site zoned for high density and mixed use, sold for $2 million in September 2025. That suggests investors now expect more of this along the street.
PROJECT 6 — 2 warehouses on the old waste site at 2 Cambridge Avenue
Status: Under assessment (state significant development, response to submissions stage)
Address: 2 Cambridge Avenue, Glenfield. The proponent named in the federal environment referral is J.C. & F.W. Kennett Pty Ltd. The application is SSD-89673472, with EPBC referral 2026/10432.
Glenfield Industrial Precinct 1 would put 2 warehouse and distribution centres on part of the Glenfield Waste Services land. The exhibited plan shows 72,840 m² of floor space on a 16.9 ha site, as well as 336 car spaces, a café and 3 internal roads. Access would come from a new intersection on Cambridge Avenue, so trucks could run around the clock. This part of the site is already zoned E4 General Industrial from a 2012 rezoning, so it doesn’t depend on Project 7.
Before that, the land was a landfill for building waste from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. The referral says the plan clears 1.14 ha of critically endangered Cumberland Plain woodland, which also counts as koala habitat. For that reason, the proponent referred it as a likely controlled action under federal law. So far, the state record shows 34 submissions. The referral gives an indicative build from February 2027 to December 2028, but only if both governments sign off.
PROJECT 7 — Industrial rezoning of the Glenfield Waste Services land
Status: Gateway approved (8 July 2026); formal exhibition still to come
Address: 2 Cambridge Avenue, Glenfield. The site also crosses into Liverpool’s council area. The planning proposal is PP-2024-2451, and council’s file is 4178/2024/E-PP.
This proposal then covers the rest of the waste site, once the recycling operation winds down. First, in Campbelltown, the rural RU2 land would become E4 General Industrial. Height limits would also rise from 8.5 m to 19 m in one part, and from 19 m to 30 m in another. Next, on the Liverpool side, the public recreation land would turn industrial with a 30 m height cap. Both councils also took early feedback from 3 February to 3 March 2025.
Now the Planning Portal shows a Gateway approval on 8 July 2026. That lets the councils take it to formal public exhibition next. Neither council has publicly endorsed the final controls yet. Still, losing RE1 recreation land is the part I’d expect submissions to focus on.
There are also smaller applications around. For example, there’s a 12-lot Torrens title subdivision with 2 new local roads at 540 Campbelltown Road, under council file 1051/2025/DA-SW. However, I couldn’t confirm its status or applicant, so I’ve left it out of the main count.
The Infrastructure Behind the Glenfield Development
Rail. Glenfield station was rebuilt in 2014 and 2015 for the South West Rail Link. That work added the overhead concourse and lifts, as well as a bus interchange, commuter car parks and a flyover for the East Hills line. In 2025, for example, it handled about 8,100 trips a day. Yet no funded station upgrade comes with the Glenfield development so far.
The Cambridge Avenue upgrade and the Glenfield development
Cambridge Avenue. In fact, this is the road most locals ask about when Glenfield development comes up. Transport for NSW exhibited the design in November 2025, then published a determination report in July 2026. The plan widens Cambridge Avenue to 4 divided lanes from the Canterbury Road roundabout towards the Georges River. A new 164 m bridge would also cross the freight and passenger lines north of the old one. Then a 6-lane extension would run west to Campbelltown Road, with a new twin bridge over the Hume Motorway. So far, the federal government has only set aside $50 million in its 2024-25 Budget to progress the business case. Even so, construction isn’t funded, and Transport says timing depends on funding and a contractor.
Schools, health care and parklands near the station
Schools. Hurlstone Agricultural High School, the state’s oldest government boarding school, keeps about 50 ha of farmland under the 2021 plan. Also, School Infrastructure NSW lists its upgrade of more than $60 million as complete. It delivered 180 boarding beds in 2 dormitories and a dairy and milking parlour, as well as new livestock sheds. Glenfield Park School has also finished an upgrade with 5 teaching spaces and a shared hall, alongside Ajuga and Campbell House schools. The new primary school in Landcom’s plan is only a “potential” one, so it’s not funded.
Health. For now, Campbelltown Hospital is the main hospital for the area, and I cover its expansion in my Campbelltown and Macarthur breakdown. Locally, however, the Glenfield plan only mentions a “possible health hub” in the town centre.
Parks. The state initially announced the 43 ha Glenfield Parklands on the Georges River in 2021 at $15 million. But the state’s own page now says plainly that “There is no current commitment to build the park.” A master plan exists, and more consultation will follow once the state finds funding.
Moorebank freight traffic and Landcom’s budget
Freight and money. The Moorebank Interstate Terminal opened on 4 April 2024, just north of Glenfield. Since it can handle 500,000 containers a year, the truck worries on Cambridge Avenue make sense. On the money side, the 2025-26 NSW Budget lists $598.3 million for Glenfield under Landcom’s ongoing investments. Right now, that’s the clearest sign the state means to deliver.
What’s Next to Watch in Glenfield Development
Plenty is lined up for Glenfield development over the next 12 to 24 months, so these are the milestones I’m watching.
- The Glenfield West rezoning decision. The next step is DPHI making the LEP amendment, expected later in 2026. That’s what would lift the west side from the 2021 limit of about 3,900 homes to around 5,200.
- Final building heights. Watch especially for whether the proposed 22 storeys near the station survive the decision. For now, the approved Stage 1 lots use the current controls, with some approved variations.
- A new primary school. Currently, Landcom’s plan marks only a “potential” school site. Watch for an announcement from School Infrastructure NSW, which hasn’t named one yet.
- Rail to Western Sydney Airport. For now, the 2025-26 Budget puts $54.7 million over 4 years into planning South West Sydney rail projects. Watch for a route choice and build funding, as neither exists yet.
- Cambridge Avenue construction. The design is already determined, so the next step is a construction budget and a start date.
- Glenfield Parklands. A master plan is ready, so watch for funding, which would trigger the next round of consultation.
- The Stage 2 decision. Trade media reported an approval, but watch for the determination to appear on the council or panel register. Also look for Landcom’s lot sales details later in 2026.
For how the state is pushing density near other stations, see my explainer on the TOD rezoning program. Glenfield’s growth is coming through Landcom’s own precinct process instead.
Glenfield Development Status and Delivery Timing
| Project | Homes | Stage | Decision maker | Expected timing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenfield West rezoning | 3,900 to about 5,200 (west side) | Post-exhibition | DPHI | Decision later in 2026; homes over 15 years |
| Stage 1 concept and subdivision | About 500 to 600 | Approved; site works | Sydney Western City Planning Panel | Civil works 2026; lots sold 2027 |
| Affordable housing, Lot 12 Roy Watts Rd | 120 | Approved | DPHI (delegate) | Build 2027 to early 2029 |
| Stage 2 subdivision | Detached and terrace lots | Lodged | Campbelltown Council or panel | Lot sales from 2027 (Landcom) |
| 2 Hosking Crescent | 35 | Lodged | Sydney Western City Planning Panel | Not stated |
| Industrial Precinct 1 warehouses | 0 | Response to submissions | DPHI and federal environment minister | Indicative 2027 to 2028 |
| Industrial rezoning | 0 | Gateway approved | Campbelltown and Liverpool councils | Exhibition still to come |
My Take on Glenfield Development
Glenfield has something most growth suburbs don’t, because its biggest landowner is a state agency with budget money behind it. So the approvals so far have moved at a steady pace, and the first building is approved. As a result, I’m fairly confident this Glenfield development will turn the western side into a dense station precinct within a decade. Compare that with Edmondson Park next door, which took years to get its town centre going under a private developer.
Still, the weak spot is roads, not housing. After all, thousands of new homes, a growing freight terminal and possibly 24/7 warehouses all lean on Cambridge Avenue and Glenfield Road. Yet the fix for that has a design and no construction budget. So if you live east of the line, expect more traffic before you see new amenity. If you’re buying, though, the station and the government backing are the real strengths. The 22-storey skyline and a new school are still promises. For a sense of how a nearby centre is handling density, Liverpool CBD is also a useful comparison.
Questions locals are asking
When can I buy a Landcom block or apartment in Glenfield?
Not yet. Landcom says Stage 1 lots go to developers in 2027, and those builders will then sell the apartments. Detached and terrace lots from Stage 2 are expected from 2027, and Landcom said more sales details would come later in 2026.
Who can live in the 120 affordable units?
A community housing provider will rent them below market for at least 15 years. Usually that means eligible key workers as well as lower to moderate-income households. However, no one has announced the provider or its eligibility rules yet.
Will Hurlstone’s farm be built on?
The 2021 plan keeps about 50 ha of farmland for the school. The new proposal also lets Hurlstone keep expanding its current uses. Instead, the housing goes on Landcom’s land around it, according to DPHI’s Glenfield page.
Is Glenfield getting a train to the new airport?
Not on any funded plan. What the 2025-26 NSW Budget does fund, though, is new dedicated bus services from Campbelltown to Western Sydney International. My Leppington pipeline post also covers the rail corridor work west of Glenfield.
This article is general information based on NSW Planning Portal records, Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure and Landcom publications, Transport for NSW and School Infrastructure NSW pages, and Campbelltown City Council documents available at publication. It isn’t financial advice. Approvals and timelines can change, so check current details with the consent authority and the developer before you buy.
