Appin Road upgrade

In January 2024, the NSW Government gave approval for construction company Lendlease to fund and deliver the Appin Road upgrade (Mount Gilead to Ambarvale). In November 2024 Lendlease sold the Figtree Hill development to Stockland. As the new developer, Stockland will fund and deliver the project as part of a Voluntary Planning Agreement with the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure.  

Appin Road upgrade is a project funded and delivered by Stockland as part of a Voluntary Planning Agreement (also known as a VPA) with the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure. This project involves road safety improvements such as upgrading intersections between Rosemeadow and Gilead and important biodiversity measures to support housing growth while protecting local koala and wildlife populations.

The project includes:

• Widening part of the road from two to four lanes to help ease congestion
• Installing safety barriers to improve safety
• Construction of new intersections to access the new Figtree Hill community project
• Koala exclusion fencing along the road corridor to stop koalas and other wildlife from crossing the road and to minimise vehicle strikes
• Koala underpasses at two locations, koala hatches (one-way “doggy doors”) and koala escape poles as well as an arboreal rope crossing to provide fauna connectivity and movement
• Line marking and signposting.

1. Preliminary site investigations
2. Strategic concept design
3. Environmental assessment
4. Community consultation on the Review of Environmental Factors
5. Submissions report
6. Project determination
7. Detailed design
8. Community consultation on the Addendum Review of Environmental Factors
9. Submissions report
10. Start of construction – WE ARE HERE.

_{* Stockland are constructing the Appin Road Upgrade project as part of a Voluntary Planning Agreement (VPA) with the NSW Department of Planning and Environment (DPE). For construction related information and enquiries please emaifigtreehill@stockland.com.au} 

• Appin Road upgrade - Project determination FAQs (PDF, 91.69 KB)

• August 2025 community update (PDF, 447.84 KB)
• January 2024 community update (PDF, 1 MB)
• November 2018 community update (PDF, 1.06 MB)

• August 2025 project notification (PDF, 2.69 MB)
• July 2025 project notification (PDF, 422.76 KB)
• April 2022 project notification
• January 2022 project notification
• April 2020 project notification
• April 2018 project notification

• Jan 2024 - Addendum Review of Environmental Factors Submissions Report - Appin Road upgrade, Mount Gilead to Ambarvale (PDF, 6.17 MB)
• Appendix A - Review and comment on koala impact assessment (PDF, 276.8 KB)
• Appendix B – Biodiversity Impact Assessment, Ecological (October 2023) (PDF, 9.94 MB)
• Appendix C – Amended REF – Aboriginal and Historic Heritage Constraints and Recommendations, GML Heritage, October 2023 (PDF, 1.5 MB)
• Appendix E – Traffic and transport advice regarding change in vehicle access arrangements (PDF, 188.2 KB)
• Decision Statement – Appin Road Upgrade AREF (PDF, 139.16 KB)
• Appin Road Upgrade - Addendum Review of Environmental Factors
• Appin Road Upgrade – REF Submissions report
• Review of Environmental Factors (PDF, 11.25 MB)
  • Appendix A – Consideration of clause 228(2) factors and matters of national environmental significance
  • Appendix B – Statutory consultation checklist
  • Appendix C – Biodiversity assessment
  • Appendix D – Contamination report
  • Appendix E – Hydrology and drainage assessment
  • Appendix F – Noise and vibration assessment
  • Appendix G – Aboriginal archaeological survey report
  • Appendix H – Non-Aboriginal heritage assessment
  • Appendix I – Landscape and visual impact assessment