• Project Update - Endorsed Plans

    Wednesday 10 December 2025

    The concept plans for John Street, 27 John Street and the Camden Signage and Wayfinding Strategy were endorsed at the Council Meeting on 9 December 2025.

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  • Project Update - Amended Plans

    Wednesday 4 December 2025

    The John Street project will be considered at the Ordinary Council Meeting on Tuesday 9 December 2025.


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  • Project Update - Stage 2 exhibition completed

    Tuesday 30 September 2025

    Concept plans were exhibited from 1 to 29 September 2025 for each section of John Street, 27 John Street, and a Signage and Wayfinding Strategy for Camden.

    Submissions received during this time are being reviewed independently and will be reported to Council for consideration.

    Thank you for your interest. We look forward to working with all our stakeholders to improve John Street for our current community and future generations.

We're investigating how we can enhance John Street to make it a vibrant, creative, community hub.

As part of the development of the Camden Town Centre Urban Design Framework, people and businesses shared their aspirations for the Camden Town Centre. At this time, John Street was identified as a future creative and community hub for Camden, and improvements to support this vision were identified as a priority project for our community.

Now, thanks to significant funding by the NSW Government's Western Sydney Infrastructure Grants Program, we are in a position to actively plan for this project, which will see investment in John Street between Broughton and Exeter Streets.

What's happening?

Since the Stage One consultation, Research and Validation in June 2024, we have incorporated the community's feedback and developed draft plans that balance the future use, safety and the history of the street with the ideas and suggestions provided by the community.

We then returned to the community for Stage Two of our community consultation with the draft concept designs for John Street and a draft Signage and Wayfinding Strategy. The aim of this engagement stage was to confirm we had achieved a balance between what was heard in the initial 2024 engagement phase and what we are proposing to deliver.

Public exhibition of concept plans for each section of John Street plus a Signage and Wayfinding Strategy for Camden were exhibited from 1 to 29 September 2025. Submissions received during this time are being reviewed independently and will be reported to Council for consideration.

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Timeline

  • Timeline item 1 - complete

    Funding sourced | 2023

    Thanks to the NSW Government's Western Sydney Infrastructure Grants Program

  • Timeline item 2 - complete

    Research and validation | 2024

    We will be undertaking studies, collecting pedestrian and traffic data, recording key features, assessing street health and analysing property usage in John Street. Then checking back in with the community about the aspirations identified in Camden's Urban Design Framework for John Street. Click here for more info.

  • Timeline item 3 - complete

    Development of draft concept design

  • Timeline item 4 - complete

    Public Exhibition | September 2025

    Share your thoughts on the plans for enhancing John Street and improving how people find their way around town until 29 September 2025.

  • Timeline item 5 - complete

    Review of submissions and stakeholder feedback

    An independent consultant will review submissions and information captured during stakeholder meetings, to summarise key topics and identify changes requested.

  • Timeline item 6 - complete

    Update design and seek Council endorsement

    The project team will consider options for changing the design before seeking endorsement of a final version.

  • Timeline item 7 - active

    Detailed Design | 2026

    A significant period of time is required to develop detailed designs that will guide the construction phase.

  • Timeline item 8 - incomplete

    Engage contractors and plan staged construction

  • Timeline item 9 - incomplete

    Construction

    The project is expected to take five years from initial research to completion of construction tasks.