vvv i'm well acquainted with the menangle /camden region, in fact most of sydney's outskirts. Suburbia is spreading on all of sydneys outskirts and there is a population increase of 200,000 planned for the southwest. However menangle was earmarked for development some years ago but this was put on hold due to the coal resources underneath it and the developers moved to the north and northwest of camden instead-oran park, gregory hills etc.
[vvv] with a good tail wind and a trusty 5-iron i would be pretty fair chance to hit a golf ball from one or more those areas onto the roof at menangle.
how close to you want the people to be dot? Close enough to walk across the road? A short drive?
it will be quite sometime before there is further development in menangle if at all.
[vvv] it might be worth taking a wander through planned local council/s and state land release/infrastructure developments. Like a number of other areas surrounding sydney it is squarely in the cross hairs.
if sydneys second airport goes to wilton (i doubt very very much it will go to badgeries creek) then all the southwest development will need to be rethought.
[vvv] pipe dream. That's the sussex st. Feed the chickens routine, something that anthony albanese has been banging on about in order to appease the batik sarong wearers & weavers of dilly bags from their own body hair contingent that infest his federal electorate...one which it just so happens is squarely under the current airport's most used flight paths.
if i had a dollar for every time an encumbent labor minister with nothing much else to talk about defaulted to that by dragging it out of the cupboard, dusting it off and giving it another whirl...i'd be living in monaco next door to mick doohan.
given that menangle park is adjacent the river and flood affected i'd have doubts about its future worth for development.
[vvv] when i was a kid the first floor of david jones in parramatta used to get flooded, in fact in a big downpour most of parramatta used to go under. Same for windsor. The jolly frog inn used to go under to the floor of the 2nd storey. That hasn't happened for many years either because the work has been done to stop it from happening. 40-50 years down the track when needs must, i.e. When the need for development walks up & knocks on the door and the $ is right...it's time for some flood abatement works here fellas.
heres an excercise for you vvv try taking public transport from your place to menangle and back and see how you go? Would you let your kids do it?
[vvv] that old chestnut. By way of a critique of the place, the public transport angle for menangle is an absolute furphy dot. I live in an area very well served and soon to be even better served (new rail line) and i guarentee you the vast majority of people around here still drive their own cars to wherever they want to go. Public transport or the lackthereof is not and never has been a make or break as far as any racetrack is concerned.
take rosehill for example. It is centrally located & well served by both train and bus and still the car park and surrounding streets are full to overflowing on race day. The vast majority of sydneysiders have become so used to public transport being so crap fo some many years that they don't even factor it in when thinking about going somewhere. Sydneysiders drive their cars, rightly or wrongly, that is what they do. I haven't been on a bus or a train in 20 years or more.
that reminds me, i must now go off and flaggelate with a birch-broom for not attempting to reduce my carbon footprint. 
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