Source: Morris, L. 1990. "Oran Park to go for new city". The Daily Telegraph, September 2: page unknown.
Trawling through my clippings, I came across an article from September 1989 published in The Daily Telegraph.
The State Government was planning a "mini-city", the size of Canberra to be built in a corridor incorporating the proposed Badgerys Creek Airport. This was seen as a response to the land shortage gripping Sydney (like today).
Oran Park Raceway would be closed with housing to replace the former race track. This occurred in 2010 and housing has since appeared.
With construction of the new airport underway three decades later, planning still continues. The focus has shifted towards commercial and industrial development to create a Western Sydney Aerotropolis. The long term goal is to create 200 000 jobs within the precinct which will follow the 1989 corridor. That is nearly two thirds of the number that commute into Central Sydney each day to work.
In 1989, they were unlikely to have considered high rise residential development, whereas three decades later it is being seriously considered.
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