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West District WEST District Suburbs Strategic Centre District Centre District Boundary Urban Area Metropolitan Rural Area Waterways National Parks and Reserves Railway Railway Station Motorway Highway West Centres Strategic Centre District Centre Local Centre District Boundary Metropolitan Urban Area Metropolitan Rural Area National Parks and Reserves Waterways Railway Railway Station Motorway Highway Roads West Green Grid Opportunities Strategic Centre District Centre District Boundary Green Grid Opportunities (Major) Green Grid Opportunities (Other) Priority Projects Projects Important to District Waterways National Parks and Reserves Railway Railway Station Motorway Highway Roads West Priority Projects: Other important projects to deliver Sydney’s Green Grid in the West District: Penrith Lakes Parklands Great Western Highway Penrith Creating diverse open space parklands and to Blackheath Corridor waterway facilities around the lakes and along Creating a safe and separated east-west walking the Nepean River, with pedestrian and cycle and cycling connection from Penrith links from Penrith and important links with the to Blackheath. Great River Walk project. Nepean Creeks – Peach Tree, Mulgoa South Creek and Surveyors Creeks Enhancing and protecting these assets Creating a continuous open space corridor and increasing access and recreational along the entirety of South Creek that provides opportunities. ecological protection and enhancement, better stormwater treatment and a regionally significant corridor for recreation uses. Warragamba Pipeline Open Space Corridor Using surplus easement lands for recreational Ropes Creek open space, urban greening and walking and cycling trails, connecting to Mulgoa, Badgerys Protecting and enhancing ecologically valued Creek, Kemps Creek, Blaxland Creek and Horsley lands, improving water quality and stormwater Park. runoff, and providing a diverse and connected sequence of recreational open spaces, walking and cycling trails, including a green link to Eastern Escarpment open space and trails connect Cecil Hills, Erskine Park, Minchinbury, Mount Druitt, Oxley Park, St Marys and Ropes Connecting a series of recreational and tourist Crossing. open space facilities along the escarpment to maximise unique landscape and views. Cranebrook to Windsor Nature Reserve Corridor Blaxland Creek and Bushland Reserve Planning for the Wianamatta Nature Reserve, Castlereagh Nature Reserve and Windsor Protecting important future open spaces for the Downs Nature Reserve to protect and enhance Western Sydney Priority Growth Area. regionally significant ecological communities and connect them to improve resilience, while Shanes Park and Wianamatta Regional Park also improving the water quality and treatment of stormwater along Rickaby’s Creek and Protecting important areas of biodiversity that providing open space and links to other areas. also provide connections to Ropes Creek and South Creek. West WEST CENTRAL West Central District District Suburbs Strategic Centre District Centre District Boundary Urban Area Metropolitan Rural Area Waterways Western Sydney Parklands National Parks and Reserves Railway Motorway Highway West Central West Centres Strategic Centre District Centre Local Centre District Boundary Urban Area Metropolitan Rural Area National Parks and Reserves Waterways Railway Railway Station Motorway Highway Roads West Central West Green Grid Opportunities Strategic Centre District Centre District Boundary Green Grid Opportunities (Major) Green Grid Opportunities (Other) Priority Projects Projects Important to District Waterways National Parks and Reserves Railway Railway Station Motorway Highway Roads West Central West Priority Projects: Other important projects to deliver Sydney’s Green Grid in the West Central District are Parramatta River Foreshore Cattai and Caddies Creek Corridors Will become a continuous open space corridor along both sides of the Parramatta River, Using the creek corridors for recreation, connecting key places along the foreshore active transport, urban greening, improved from Westmead and Parramatta Park to water quality and stormwater treatment and Sydney Olympic Park and Rhodes, with further ecological protection. The project will also connections eastward towards Iron Cove in the create east-west links that provide access Central District. between the parallel creek corridors. Duck River Open Space Corridor Parramatta Road Corridor Will create a continuous walking and cycling Using opportunities provided by the link north-south linking Parramatta, Camellia, transformation and renewal along Parramatta Granville, Auburn, Regents Park and south to Road to create improved north-south green Bankstown in the South District. Enhancing and links between existing areas of regional open expanding the existing open space assets to space, the Parramatta River and Cooks River. establish the corridor as a regional open space destination with improved recreational space, habitat for ecological communities and better Ropes Creek Corridor treatment of stormwater. Creating a green link connecting nearby suburbs including Cecil Hills, Erskine Park, Prospect Reservoir Water Pipeline Corridor Minchinbury, Mount Druitt, Oxley Park, St Marys and Ropes Crossing. This project will also help Aims to create a connected open space corridor protect the ecology of the creek, improve water linking Prospect Reservoir and Western Sydney quality and provide opportunities for walking Parklands within communities including and cycling trails. Pemelwuy, Greystanes, Merrylands, Smithfield, Guildford, Chester Hill and Regents Park. This project will also connect with other Green Grid Toongabbie and Blacktown Creeks Corridor projects including the Duck River Open Space Corridor. Creating opportunities for a high quality link between Blacktown and Parramatta, increasing Western Sydney Parklands extension access to regional open space and providing and connections opportunities to restore areas of degraded bushland. Will provide enhanced access to open space, recreation and greener urban landscapes to the growing population of the North West Priority Growth Area. Future extensions north along Eastern Creek could connect the Western Sydney Parklands to the Hawkesbury River. West Central West .