Region. Growth frustrated in the West

Sydney in general, and Western Sydney in particular, have become places where innovation, entrepreneurship and hard work are frustrated by choked roads, inadequate or unavailable public transport, freight that can't be moved efficiently or on time, poorly drained employment lands that lack IT infrastructure There is an alarming lack of suitably configured large-scale employment sites. Also, there is a lack of imagination in the ways that small enterprises and home-based enterprises can be integrated into everyday economy life, according to Professor Bill Randolph, from the UNSW Faculty of the Built Environment and Sharon Fingland, the assistant director, of the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (WSROC) in a meeting with Tom Gellibrand, the new deputy director, planmaking and urban renewal, in the Department of Planning.