Roselands overhaul plan faces council rejection
Council planning panel recommended rejecting a $150m Roselands overhaul. It would add Costco, 40 retailers, and 350 permanent jobs.
Roselands shopping centre's $150m overhaul faces rejection from Canterbury-Bankstown Council's planning panel. A vote is due Monday.
The revamp would bring more than 40 new retailers and hundreds of extra parking spaces and would open a Costco warehouse on the site. The project would create 200 construction jobs and more than 350 permanent retail jobs.
Residents opposed the plan, citing traffic, noise, overshadowing, light spill, safety and crime concerns. But local traders say the centre needs the investment as major stores leave suburban shopping hubs.
Council planners raised 11 key concerns. These include traffic impact on surrounding roads and loss of amenity for nearby homes.
- 150 million dollars
- Investment value
- 350+
- Permanent jobs created
- 40+
- New retailers
- 1966
- Centre opened
Why it mattersA major jobs project and sixty-year-old retail hub's future hinges on Monday's vote. Community division exists over development versus managed decline.
AustraliaRoselands has served Sydney's southwest since 1966; rejection leaves the struggling major retailer without major investment or new employment while competitors modernise.
