Arada wins $650m Castle Hill approval for 445-home Wattle Green

The site is listed at 2 Fishburn Crescent, Castle Hill, and spans more than 14,000 sqm diagonally opposite Hills Showground Metro Station, according to the outlet. Turner is named as designer and Arcadia as landscape architect.

For Arada, the approval follows its planning consent for the 33-storey London Place tower in Campsie, which we covered in October. The outlet says the UAE developer has been expanding in Australia since entering the market in 2024.

Arada Group CEO Ahmed Alkhoshaibi told the outlet the project would bring the developer’s community-focused approach to what he called one of Sydney’s most established residential markets. The outlet says Arada is targeting owner-occupiers, with larger layouts aimed at families and downsizers who want to stay in the Hills District.

The numbers

The outlet gives this apartment mix: 54 one-bedroom, 272 two-bedroom, 83 three-bedroom and 36 four-bedroom homes. We added those four figures and they total 445, which matches the stated yield. Of those, 25 are affordable homes.

Each of the three buildings is reported to have its own rooftop amenities. The shared amenities named are a pool outdoors, gardens on the podium, a gym, wellness areas, coworking space, private dining rooms and lounges for residents.

On Arada’s wider footprint, Apartments.com.au says its Australian pipeline now exceeds 6,000 homes. The same article says the group’s global pipeline is valued at more than $73 billion, across more than 70,000 homes in the UAE, UK, Australia, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Those are the outlet’s figures and we have not verified them.

The outlet also lists Arada’s other Sydney activity. It says One Campsie, a distinct scheme of 346 apartments in three towers, is moving ahead, and that the developer has plans for nearly 1,000 apartments in Broadbeach. It adds that Arada acquired Australian construction company Roberts Co last year.

What’s next

According to Apartments.com.au, registrations of interest are expected to open later in November. Construction is targeted to start in the first quarter of 2027, with completion anticipated towards the end of 2029.

The report does not give the approval date, the approval pathway or a planning reference, and it attributes the approval only to “the NSW Government”. We have not seen the determination itself, so the approval status here is as reported by the outlet. The affordable housing component is stated only as a count of 25 homes, with no tenure or provider detail in the report.

The report gives no pricing.