According to Planning NSW the Sydenham to Bankstown Strategy (SBCS) is an ‘urban renewal strategy that provides approaches to growth with infrastructure delivery and development coordinated along the corridor’.

The PR around the strategy talks about retaining heritage and character, adding open spaces and providing community centres.

When we looked at the strategy we did not see any infrastructure delivery or respect for heritage.

The SBCS is a plan for mass rezoning for high rise residential apartments with no new schools or roads. There are dubiously named open spaces... a drainage canal was described as a linear park!

We see crowded schools, congested roads, a loss of our heritage architecture and a loss of local jobs as industrial land makes way for high rise apartments.

Save Marrickville are not alone, we talk to and coordinate with a number of other residents groups such as:

• Sydenham to Bankstown Alliance
  
  
• The newly formed Tempe group from Tempe 2020
  
  
• Save Dully in Dulwich Hill
  
  
• Save Our Valley -  Bardwell, Earlwood, Turrella

Sydenham to Bankstown Corridor Strategy information  Department of Planning 

City planning expert warns SBCS could become an enclave for “those with deep pockets”  Daily Telegraph