Development application seeks to subdivide Riverlands Golf Course site into 241 lots

The former Riverlands Golf Course will be sliced up into 241 lots, if a development application to subdivide the Milperra site is successful.

Riverlands Golf Course has been earmarked for development, with an application currently on exhibition to subdivide the site into 241 lots.

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The former Riverlands Golf Course will be sliced up into 241 lots, if a development application to subdivide the Milperra site is successful.

Residents have two weeks left to have their say on the controversial housing plans — that would effectively see a mini-suburb built within Milperra.

The DA is the most recent development for the site that was last year rezoned by the State Government to R2 Low Density Residential.

There residents are MADD — Milperra Against Destructive Development and have previously campaigned against the development of the former Riverlands Golf Course.

The Department of Planning and Environment rejected a proposal to rezone 15ha of the former Riverlands Golf Course E3 Environmental Management, which would allow for some low-density housing, and instead imposed the R2 zoning.

This will allow everything from duplexes to school, religious buildings and hospitals and an estimated 500 homes.

Riverlands Golf Course has been a headache for successive Bankstown councils since it was sold to developers more than 30 years ago.

The council failed to buy the land and plans for development were scuttled in the 1980s after community uproar.

It has been resold several times and is now owned by Statewide Planning.