Region. Developers stay away

Economic and social problems were keeping developers away from suburbs such as Auburn, Bankstown and Fairfield, which were supposed to take the lion’s share of development over the next 25 years, according to a study by the City Futures research centre, at the University of NSW. “This will be the heart of the new Sydney in many ways, but it’s also the region least capable of delivering good quality higher density renewal out of all the Metropolitan Strategy regions,” said Professor Bill Randolph, a study’s co-author.