00:00 From a contaminated industrial zone to a busy metropolis, this is the vision for Camellia,
00:08 a 10 minute drive from Parramatta.
00:10 I'm very excited about it.
00:12 Yeah.
00:13 Yeah, definitely.
00:14 I'm all for development because we need it.
00:16 I am a bit concerned about the infrastructure.
00:18 I don't like that they think about adding more houses before they think about the traffic conditions.
00:24 But the glossy promotional video is far from reality.
00:27 This is a government that in its first year in office has failed on housing.
00:31 They've talked big, there are a lot of proposals that haven't yet been implemented.
00:35 Developers at Camellia have seized on the state government's vision for the nearby Rose Hill racecourse.
00:40 Labor wants to turn the track into 25,000 homes serviced by a new metro stop.
00:46 The Premier's looking for supporters in his mission to boost housing.
00:50 All we need is the right arguments, marshalled in the right way, with good allies.
00:56 Both developments together would be a major boost to housing supply.
01:01 So making 45,000 homes or homes for 100,000 people.
01:05 But the Rose Hill mini-city hinges on support from the Australian Turf Club members
01:11 and the transformation of Camellia is unlikely to be viable without the metro stop
01:16 that's attached to the development at Rose Hill.
01:18 The other major challenge in redeveloping Camellia is the contamination.
01:23 This site is filled with asbestos and chromium from years of heavy industry.
01:29 It's going to be expensive to fix.
01:31 The contamination clean-up is the responsibility of the landowners, not of government.
01:36 The planning department is proposing to rezone the land this year
01:40 to allow for some form of residential development by 2041.
01:44 to be one.
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