Project Radar: every Western Sydney DA worth quoting, one week ahead

Straight up on the data first: five of the seven feeds pulled fresh this week — Blacktown, The Hills, Cumberland, Campbelltown and Penrith all served new rows scraped on 08–09/08. Liverpool is stuck: its scraper is still serving the same Fifteenth Avenue batch it carried last issue, so those rows are marked carried, not new. Camden went dark — the public scraper returned nothing on this pull, so Camden sits out this week. We'd rather tell you that than pad the board with stale rows.

The Hills is where the money is. The standout of the whole issue landed here: a 121-unit residential flat building at 10 Seven Hills Road, Baulkham Hills, with 19 units set aside as affordable housing under SEPP Housing 2021. That's the biggest lead-worthy DA on the board. Around it, the custom-home pipeline through Gables, Box Hill and North Kellyville keeps grinding — two-storey dwellings with pools and retaining walls, a small-lot triple at Castle Hill, an attached dual occ at North Kellyville — plus a Section 4.55 to Castle Towers and a commercial/light-industrial stage at Rouse Hill.

Childcare is the commercial theme this week. Two purpose-built centres hit different feeds: 150 places at 86 Sydney Street, St Marys (Penrith, with two basement parking levels) and 112 places at 607 Merrylands Road, Greystanes (Cumberland, over basement parking). Both are compliance-heavy fit-outs — certified electrical, hydraulic and fire — and both are worth a call to the head contractor.

The growth corridors are doing what they do. Blacktown's feed is thick with volume house builds through Melonba, Grantham Farm, Marsden Park and Tallawong, plus a Rooty Hill change-of-use to a butchery and a couple of Torrens splits. Campbelltown ran hot on Menangle Park dwellings and secondary dwellings, an 8-terrace strata development at Minto, a detached dual occ at Claymore, and the new Claymore Neighbourhood Centre. Cumberland leaned infill — multi-dwelling housing at Girraween, a run of dual occ + Torrens across Auburn, Guildford and Wentworthville. Penrith stayed industrial and modification-heavy: a Kemps Creek industrial subdivision with bulk earthworks, a warehouse pair, and a stack of 4.55s.

Liverpool, read the tell. Even carried, the Liverpool batch is worth a glance: one subdivision civil job at 365 Fifteenth Avenue, Austral surrounded by a wall of utility investigations along the same corridor. That pattern says Austral corridor works are coming — few quotable rows today, but a clear signal for civil and services crews watching the South West.