Soper Place

Penrith City Council is transforming part of the existing street level car park at Soper Place, to create 600 additional multi-storey car spaces, new commercial offices, community areas and public green space to revitalise Penrith and help combat rising urban heat.

Soper Place Revitalisation is part of Council’s vision to renew our City Centre and connect Penrith from the CBD through to the Nepean River by beautiful parks and places for people to live, work and enjoy.

In 2019 a NSW Government Design Excellence Competition was held for Soper Place, with the design from architects Durbach Block Jaggers chosen as the winner.

A Development Application (DA) for the project was submitted by Council for assessment in December 2020 and will be determined by the Sydney Western City Planning Panel.

The Soper Place Revitalisation proposes to deliver: 

• Multi-storey car parking with 600 additional car parking spaces - including 11 accessible car parking spaces, 24 x motorbike parking spaces and 44 x bicycle parking spaces - responding directly to projected demand for parking in the City Centre.  
• An A-Grade four storey office building with approximately 6,204 sqm of commercial floor area. 
• Multi-use community space – the public room – 931 sqm of floor space.  
• Public rooftop garden and green building facade, contributing to cooling the city.  
• Public domain works at the ground level and extensive planting of the public rooftop garden – 2,600 sqm. 

Soper Place is located between Belmore Street and Lawson Street in the Penrith City Centre with access via Lawson and Woodriff Streets.

Soper Place Revitalisation aims to deliver a significant area of living green facade, an extensive rooftop garden and public domain planting. These green elements will contribute to reducing urban heat and Cooling the City, which helps maintain Penrith’s liveability. The community space aims to include a multi-sports court that can be used for recreation or a range of community events such as markets, events and concerts. The four storeys of commercial space will improve the limited supply of A-grade commercial offices in Penrith, helping to strengthen our role as an employment hub in Western Sydney and locate jobs close to home.

Council anticipates that 120 parking spaces will be unavailable during the transformation of Soper Place. More details will be provided on this once construction of Stage Two begins. Alternative nearby 9-hour parking (243 parking spaces) is available at North Street car park, located on the corner of Henry and Doonmore Street, approximately five minutes walk from Soper Place. North Street car park was strategically delivered by Council in 2019 ahead of any work starting to transform Soper Place. To find out more about available parking in the City Centre, you can download Penrith’s Parking app ParkPenrith and an interactive map at: penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/parking.

Council is working hard to minimise disruption for businesses around Soper Place. Council is also in regular contact with surrounding businesses to update them on the project and discuss upcoming works.

Soper Place Revitalisation will occur in two stages. Stage 1 involves early works to prepare the site for development. Council partnered with Statewide Civil to deliver these works, including relocating ageing storm water infrastructure, relocating electrical cabling and changes to parking access. This work began in August 2020 and is expected to be complete in November 2021.

Stage 2 involves the construction of the new development at Soper Place. Work will commence following Development Application determination and is expected to start in early 2022.

For general information about the project, please contact Council’s Property team on 4732 8229 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.