Plans from Australia’s biggest industrial developer for the $130.6-million next stage of its warehouse supersite in Sydney’s west are open for comment.
According to the proposal by Keylan Planning, global industrial property developer Goodman Group wants to build a collection of warehouses for the next stage of its Oakdale East Industrial Estate at Horsley Park.
The planning documents said the development, about 40km by road west of the Sydney CBD, would be an “exemplar” in sustainability and safety, with a focus on wellbeing.
Goodman and joint-venture partner Brickworks want to develop three buildings and four speculative tenancies for a combined 90,158sq m of floor space.
The first of those buildings would provide 26,473sq m of office and warehousing space, while the second would consist of 35,678sq m of gross floor area.
The third would comprise two tenancies, one of 13,734sq m and the other of 14,273sq m, both of which would be ambient warehousing, storing goods at a controlled room temperature, typically ranging from 15C to 27C.
Goodman’s State Significant Development application for the site at 2-10 Old Wallgrove Road is on exhibition until the end of September.
Within the Fairfield local government area, it would form part of the 421ha Oakdale East Industrial Estate.
Goodman said four million people could be reached within a 60-minute drive of the estate, which neighbours the M4 and M7 motorways.
Plans have been in the works for several years to develop the huge industrial precinct, and concept plans were approved in 2023.
Oakdale East and its sister sites Oakdale Central, Oakdale South and Oakdale West are collectively one of the biggest parcels of industrial-zoned land in the Western Sydney region, attracting such tenants as Amazon, Telstra, Coles and Woolworths.
The Oakdale Industrial Estate has been in planning since 2012 and is within the Western Sydney Employment area that spans the Fairfield and Penrith government areas.
Formerly the site of a quarry and brick manufacturing facilities, it is 12km north-east of the Western Sydney International Airport that is due to open next year.
Western Sydney’s industrial sector has boomed in recent years on the back of existing and coming investments in infrastructure.
According to NAB, industrial transactions in the region rose 13.6 per cent to $4.17 billion as vacancy rates plummeted to 2.5 per cent during the first half of 2025.
