Urban Property Group lodges 1,222-apartment plan for Concord West

Urban Property Group has lodged a state significant development application for six residential towers and 1,222 apartments on a 2.17 hectare site in Concord West, in the City of Canada Bay, according to planning documents first reported on 13 October 2026.

The site spans 7 Concord Avenue, 202 George Street and 69-73 Victoria Avenue, on land currently zoned for industrial and low-density residential use. UPG is pursuing the project through the NSW Housing Delivery Authority pathway, the state track for significant housing proposals, alongside a separate rezoning application needed before the land can carry residential towers at all.

Why it matters

A 1,222-apartment precinct is among the larger single-site proposals moving through Sydney’s state significant system this year, and it is an early test of how far the Housing Delivery Authority pathway can carry a scheme that still needs its own zoning changed before anything can be built. Lodging is not approval. A rezoning has to clear, and a consent authority still has to rule on both the concept plan for the full six-tower precinct and the detailed design for stage 1 before a single apartment is built. The scheme also attaches its affordable and disability housing commitments up front. That gives other operators on the same pathway a live benchmark for what a scheme this size offers to qualify. It is a different lever from the state’s Pre-sale Finance Guarantee, which this week backed two projects carrying 35 affordable homes between them.

The numbers

The masterplan, named Water’s Edge in the planning documents, proposes six towers of between 12 and 45 storeys rising above four shared podiums, with a minimum 24 metre separation between towers. The application seeks concept approval for the whole 2.17 hectare precinct, but detailed development consent only for stage 1: two towers of 39 and 45 storeys, a landscaped residential podium and an internal road network. At least 3% of the apartments are committed as affordable housing, to be managed in perpetuity by a registered community housing provider, and 5% of the stage 1 apartments are allocated as Specialist Disability Accommodation. Warren and Mahoney, working with Yerrabingin, was selected as design architect after a competition against two other shortlisted teams. The design documents describe the layout as a direct response to the site’s position on the Powells Creek floodplain, with drainage paths and tidal movement used to set the arrangement of open space between the towers rather than treated as a constraint to be engineered around.

What’s next

The application is on foot through the Housing Delivery Authority pathway, which means the next formal steps are a decision on the rezoning and an assessment of both the concept plan and the stage 1 application by the relevant consent authority. Neither has happened yet. UPG has lodged its documents, and nothing in the public planning record so far sets a hearing date or a decision timetable for either matter. The eventual scale of the precinct also depends on how the concept plan for the remaining four towers, 12 to 38 storeys and without a detailed design yet, is treated once stage 1 has been decided, since stage 1 is the only part of Water’s Edge currently in front of assessors in full.