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Business View Australia - November-December 2015 21
AT A GLANCE
WHO:
Campbelltown City Council
WHAT:
Campbelltown offers a unique
combination of city opportunities
in a natural setting to its 150,000
residents.
WHERE:
Campbell Town,
NSW 2560
WEBSITE:
campbelltown.nsw.gov.auCampbelltownCity is locatedat thehub
of one of the most significant current
and future growth areas in south-west
Sydney, the Macarthur region.
Campbelltown has been a focus
for metropolitan scale urban growth
before, and the NSW Government has
recognised the potential for a new
phase of growth and development that
has already started just recently, and
which builds on the momentum that
has been sustained over the last two
to three years.
In themid to late1970s, Campbelltown
was declared by the Government as a
metropolitangrowtharea.Bythe1980s,
it had expanded considerably due to a
numberofmajordevelopersrecognising
the potential of the city. Campbelltown
became a booming western Sydney
housing area, characterised by a lot
of detached dwellings on quarter acre
blocks. Companies like Lendlease and
Landcom did extensive construction
work and contributed significantly to
the growth that was taking place.
Today, Campbelltown/Macarthur is the
premier Regional City Centre in south-
western Sydney, with an unbridled
capacity to grow. From a population of
25,000 in 1966, more than 155,000
people now call Campbelltown home.
Campbelltown is spread across 38
suburbs, making it one of the 10
largest local government areas in
NSW. Campbelltown City Council has
a forward-thinking approach and runs
the city in an efficient manner with its
900 staff.
Jeff Lawrence, Council’s Director of
Strategy, speaks about the reasons for
the city’s expansion.
“Campbelltown, in a historic sense,
is no stranger to growth. In the last
two to three years, the city has been
recognised as not just a destination for
housing because it is close to Sydney,
but as a place that has a number of
attributes which make it really liveable.
“Those attributes strongly relate to
accessibility – for example, we can
get to the city within 48 minutes by
train from here and the airport is 35
minutes away. You can also get to the
CBD within 45 minutes on the M5.”
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