Our City Centres

Council's strategy to transform the City Centre and deliver jobs for the future. A process of collaborative discovery it identified new economic, social and environmental drivers, addressed barriers to investment, and identified catalyst projects to revitalise the city.

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The Penrith City Centre Vision sets the framework for the City Centre to grow into a prosperous, vibrant and attractive City. The Vision is supported by the Penrith LEP 2010 and  Penrith City Centre Civic Improvement Plan.

Council worked with local businesses, residents and shoppers to gather information and make recommendations to improve the streets of the City Centre. These recommendations are captured by the Penrith City Centre Public Domain Masterplan Council adopted in June 2013.

Download the Penrith Public Domain Manual Council adopted in July 2015. 

The St Marys planning pathway – known as St Marys 2041 - comprises a place-based process to guide planning and development in the St Marys Town Centre over the next 20 years and beyond. The planning pathway has three stages:

Stage 1: St Marys Town Centre Structure Plan 

Stage 2: St Marys Town Centre Master Plan 

Stage 3: Planning Implementation Plan

The St Marys Town Centre Structure Plan has set a place vision, place outcomes and strategic and spatial directions to guide the growth of St Marys as a vibrant, welcoming, sustainable and authentic strategic centre that meets the changing needs of our community. Community input was sought on two occasions as part of developing the plan, in February – April 2022 and August – September 2022. Council formally adopted the Structure Plan on 28 November 2022. This stage also involved the preparation of a Place Plan to support the community through the change that is coming and bring St Marys to life in the short term.

The St Marys Town Centre Master Plan further refines the directions outlined in the Structure Plan and contains the design detail for specific streets and precincts in St Marys.

Stage 3 involves implementing the Master Plan through amendments to local planning controls. Council has prepared a Draft St Marys Town Centre Development Control Plan (DCP) and Draft St Marys Town Centre Development Contributions Plan 2025. These draft plans were put on public exhibition from Thursday 6 March until 11.59pm on Wednesday 2 April 2025.

Further information on the planning pathway and its supporting documents can be found here.

The St Marys Town Centre Place Plan a community-led roadmap outlining actions over the next five years to transform the Town Centre through events, activities, public space improvements, and other projects.

The Place Plan is informed by the vision and outcomes outlined in the St Marys Town Centre Structure Plan and was developed in close consultation with the community. 

You can find out more here.

The current planning controls for the Town Centre were set and adopted by Council and came into effect in 2010 as Penrith Local Environmental Plan 2010 (LEP 2010) and Penrith Development Control Plan 2014. These documents underpin the Strategy with a mixed use business zone (B4 Mixed Use) applying over all of the Town Centre. This zone permits a variety of commercial, retail and residential uses. The documents also control the future built form and urban design of the Town Centre.

There is currently significant interest in developing sites in and around the Town Centre. These development proposals are generally consistent with the Strategy and include mixed use and high-density residential developments and the redevelopment of the two (2) existing shopping centres.

Any development proposal requires a development application supported by appropriate studies into its constraints and opportunities (for example, traffic management, car parking and drainage. The community is notified of all development applications by Council's Development Services Department as part of the Development Application Process. Council's Development Services team can be contacted on 4732 7777 or atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The Kingswood Pedestrian Lighting Strategy promotes pedestrian safety, amenity, way finding and enhances peoples’ experience of the Kingswood Traders Precinct at night.

Download a copy of the Kingswood Pedestrian Lighting strategy.

Download the Kingswood Public Domain Manual Council adopted in September 2014.