Pitt Town Bypass

To mark the start of main construction on the Pitt Town Bypass Project, TfNSW and their construction partner Abergeldie Complex Infrastructure will be holding a Community Event on Sunday July 27 between 11am and 1pm at Brinsley Oval, Pitt Town. For more information, please view the event flyer (PDF, 64.1 KB).

The Pitt Town Bypass project will commence main construction activities from 1 August 2025. For more information, please view the July 2025 community notification (PDF, 263.69 KB).

Night work in Pitt Town from Monday 30 June 2025.

For more information, please view the community notification (PDF, 266.93 KB).

Transport for NSW has commenced early works for the Pitt Town Bypass project. 

View the early works community notification (PDF, 255.86 KB).

Transport for NSW has published the March 2025 Community Update for the Pitt Town Bypass project.

View the March 2025 Community Update (PDF, 992.15 KB).

Transport for NSW has published the Addendum Review of Environmental Factors’ (AREF) for the Pitt Town Bypass Project.

View the AREF Main Report (PDF, 27.06 MB).

The AREF and appendices are available in the Reports section on this page.

Transport for NSW is carrying out a comprehensive review of the existing detail design and environmental approval of the project before awarding the construction contract for the project’s major work. The design review and updates are scheduled to be completed in 2024. A major work contract for the project has been scheduled to be awarded in the first quarter of 2025 and for work to start in the second quarter of 2025. 

The Pitt Town Bypass Project is an important project as this will provide an alternative route for through traffic travelling north (towards Wisemans Ferry) – south (towards Windsor) along Pitt Town Road / Cattai Road. The alternative route will bypass the town centre, providing a more direct route for through traffic and reduce the volume of heavy vehicles passing through residential and commercial areas.

Detailed design and property acquisition are complete for the Pitt Town Bypass project and planning for construction is getting underway. We will update the community as these plans progress.

Following the approval of the Review of Environmental Factors (REF) in July 2019, the Pitt Town Bypass project has moved to the next phase with detailed design now complete. The property acquisitions required for the project are underway and expected to be completed this year.

The Review of Environmental Factors (REF) was displayed for community consultation in late 2018. Transport for NSW reviewed the submissions received (March 2019 submissions report (PDF, 4.8Mb)) and the project has been approved.

For details see the July 2019 community update (PDF, 250Kb).

Transport for NSW has completed planning for the Pitt Town Bypass Project. The objective of the bypass is to realign the road corridor so through traffic does not travel into the town centre.

A review of environmental factors (REF) of the Pitt Town Bypass was completed in November 2018. The REF assessed the potential environmental and social impacts associated with the construction and operation of the project. It also identified safeguards and management measures to avoid, mitigate or manage those potential impacts.

Following the REF public display, a Pitt Town Bypass REF Submissions Report was finalised and determined in February 2019. The decision to proceed with the project as defined in the REF and Submissions report was made in February 2019.

Transport has continued to develop the project into detailed design, there has been some minor modifications required to the project since it was determined in February 2019.

In November 2019 the project prepared an REF Consistency Review report to cover areas where the project design will extend beyond the original boundary defined in the REF. The consistency report also addresses the proposed arrangements for the intersection at Buckingham Street and Cattai Road. The Submissions Report (Feburary 2019) included an environmental safeguard for this intersection to be examined further as a result of community feedback received.

View the finalised Consistency Review (PDF, 3.78 MB).

Transport has also prepared an addendum to the determined REF to address some further issues and some minor design changes since 2019, including:

• reconfirming the environmental impacts have not changed since the original REF and consistency report in 2019
• revising biodiversity surveys and assessing if any changes in threatened species have occurred
• further noise modelling and traffic monitoring surveys
• tree surveys to identify the species and number of trees that may be impacted
• reviewing the flood and stormwater models to confirm any changes

Transport has also undertaken further work on the project including addressing the REF environmental safeguard and completing an archaeological research methodology, confirming the ability to construct the project within the approved construction boundary.

You can view the November 2024 Addendum REF report in the Reports section on this page.

The key features of the proposal include:

• extending Pitt Town Road past Bathurst Street onto Cattai Road, east of Eldon Street
• installing a new single lane roundabout at Eldon Street and Old Pitt Town Road
• closing a portion of Cattai Road to maintain access to Buckingham Street
• providing new bridge crossings of Hortons Creek
• installing a new single lane roundabout at Pitt Town Road/Bathurst Street and Glebe Road
• the total length of the upgrade is approximately 1 km.

The benefits of the proposed bypass would include:

• reduce traffic through the town centre, including heavy vehicles
• improve journey efficiency for through traffic
• improve road safety for local and through road users.

Following the NSW Government’s commitment of $100 million to the Pitt Town Bypass, Transport for NSW has been carrying out a comprehensive review of the existing detail design and environmental approval of the project before awarding the contract for the project’s major work.

A major work contract for the project will be awarded in the first half of Quarter 2 of 2025 and for work to start in the second half of Quarter 2, 2025. 

Priority activities will include site establishment, utility and service identification and vegetation removal. 

We are committed to keeping the community and stakeholders updated as work on the project progresses.

• July 2025 community event notification flyer (PDF, 64.1 KB)
• March 2025 project update (PDF, 992.15 KB)
• July 2019 project update
  Pitt Town bypass project approved.
• November 2018 community update
  Pitt Town bypass update.
• March 2017 community update
  Proposed Pitt Town Bypass preferred option.
• May 2016 community update
  Have Your Say on Pitt Town bypass.

• July 2025 Start of main construction notification (PDF, 263.69 KB)
  Main construction on the Pitt Town Bypass from 1 August 2025
• June 2025 Upcoming night work (PDF, 266.93 KB)
  Night work in Pitt Town from Monday 30 June 2025
• May 2025 Start of early works notification (PDF, 255.86 KB)
  Pitt Town bypass update
• June 2024 Geotechnical investigation work (PDF, 246.68 KB)
  Geotechnical investigations at Pitt Town from 17 June 2024

• January 2019 notification

  Investigation work update

• October 2018 notification 

  Investigation work from Monday 5 November 2018.

• November 2024 Addendum Review of Environmental Factors – Main Report (PDF, 27.06 MB)
• November 2024 Addendum Review of Environmental Factors – Appendix C Aboriginal Heritage Impact Permit (PDF, 964.19 KB)
• November 2024 Addendum Review of Environmental Factors – Appendix D Addendum Flora & Fauna Assessment (PDF, 3.82 MB)
• November 2024 Addendum Review of Environmental Factors – Appendix E Noise & Vibration Impact Assessment (PDF, 72.24 MB)
• November 2024 Addendum Review of Environmental Factors – Appendix F Hydrology & Hydraulics Assessment (PDF, 181.7 MB)
• November 2024 Addendum Review of Environmental Factors – Appendix G Surface & Groundwater Assessment (PDF, 2.09 MB)
• November 2024 Addendum Review of Environmental Factors – Appendix H Archaeological Research Design Report (PDF, 8.82 MB)
• November 2024 Addendum Review of Environmental Factors – Appendix I Traffic & Transport Assessment (PDF, 610.79 KB)
• November 2024 Addendum Review of Environmental Factors – Appendix J Aboriginal Heritage Information Management System (PDF, 285 KB)
• November 2019 Review of Environmental Factors Consistency Review (PDF, 3.78 MB)

• March 2019 submissions report

  Pitt Town Bypass.

• November 2018 Review of Environmental Factors - Volume 1
• November 2018 Review of Environmental Factors - Volume 2
• November 2018 Review of Environmental Factors - Volume 3
• December 2016 community consultation report