Corridor projects

NSW is developing rapidly and Transport for NSW is planning for the long term. We will make sure communities remain connected with convenient, reliable and safe transport.

The state is undergoing rapid infrastructure development, so it is now more urgent than ever to ensure land protection for future transport infrastructure.

We protect corridors of land for future transport infrastructure, to keep up with the state’s growth. Corridors are lengths, strips or zones of land that become ‘protected’ from development. This means we can build roads, rail lines and other necessary transport infrastructure as NSW develops. Our job is to ensure that goods can be transported and people can continue to travel, well into the future.

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Why is corridor protection important?

To support the growing population it is imperative that we act now, to protect corridors of land for future transport infrastructure.

Without corridor protection, the cost of providing infrastructure has been calculated to be tens of billions of dollars greater in today’s dollars. Corridor protection enables councils, businesses and other stakeholders to better plan development.

The corridor protection process

To protect land, Transport makes sure that our investigations are sensitive to communities, current land uses, ecology, heritage, and much more. We work to preserve important sites where possible. Communities, Aboriginal knowledge holders, property owners, councils, and other stakeholders are consulted throughout our investigations.

We analyse the cultural, economic, and environmental impacts that a development may have within and near to a corridor. We work alongside the Department of Planning, Housing & Infrastructure, Infrastructure NSW, as well as with federal agencies.

Once the investigations and consultations are finalised, an infrastructure project has been budgeted for and is close to development, then Transport may acquire land falling within the preserved corridors.

The corridors program has been running since 2015 and we have consulted with the public on more than 200 km of corridors and have successfully gazetted more than 40km of land.

Community engagement

You can find information about our community engagement via these links:

Corridor preservation and the Western Sydney International Airport Precinct

Some of Transport’s current corridor protection projects are located within the developing Western Sydney International Airport (WSIA) Precinct, heralding an enormous transformation for Greater Sydney.

What was a semi-rural area, with scattered dwellings and minimal light industry, will become a thriving transport hub and city centre. The Precinct will service the new airport, light industrial areas and residential development and will support a forecasted workforce of 10,000 people, with a variety of transport modes each day.

Planning is underway to protect land for future roads, rail, freight, metro, rapid bus services, and walking and bike riding pathways. The corridors team are working in stages to progress protection of corridors from development, so that transport and/or other infrastructure can be planned in the future to service the whole region as efficiently as possible.

Acquisition

Click here for more information about the acquisition process.

Corridor terminology

Acquisition

When Transport for NSW purchases property to protect land for future transport infrastructure. For more information, see the Acquisitions page.

Corridor

A protected strip of land or path, usually for the purpose of linear infrastructure.

Gazettal

Gazettal occurs when a piece of legislation appears in the NSW Government Gazette, which is the official record of all NSW Government legislation. Gazettal means that the use of land in this area has the force of law. While Transport does not own the land, ‘gazettal’ gives Transport say over what private landowners can do with it, up until any future transport projects are constructed on that land.

Protection

An informal way to describe the process or preventing development on corridors of land.

Preservation

Same as above

State Environmental Planning Policy

State and local planning legislation and policies set the rules that control what development can occur on your land. State environmental planning policies (SEPPs) apply across the state. Please refer to Corridor Protection SEPPs for more information.