Name: The Sydney Plan: Life after Three Cities
Start: 2026-11-23T06:00:00.000Z
Location: Bartier Perry, Level 25, 161 Castlereagh Street, Sydney NSW 2000

The Sydney Plan: Life after Three Cities

Monday 23 November 2026 · 5:00 pm · Bartier Perry, Level 25, 161 Castlereagh Street, Sydney NSW 2000

On 13 August 2026 the NSW Government replaced A Metropolis of Three Cities and its five district plans with a single strategic framework for 33 councils: The Sydney Plan. It sets the direction for housing, jobs, industrial land, open space and infrastructure for a city of 6.6 million by 2046, and asks every council to rewrite its local plans around it.

Eight years after Three Cities, this is the first independent public forum on what replaces it. What has changed, what has been dropped, and what does the plan actually require of councils and industry in the next two years? Does one plan serve Western Sydney as well as three cities promised? And how will it be delivered while the housing targets slip? Join AIUS NSW for a 90-minute panel and open discussion with the people who wrote the plan and the people who have to implement it. Meet the speakers and moderator below. Monday 23 November 2026, 5.00 pm. Bartier Perry, Level 25, 161 Castlereagh Street, Sydney. In person. Registration essential. Drinks and nibbles to follow.

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Speakers

Speaker

Halvard Dalheim

Director, City Planning Advisory Service; Adjunct Associate Professor · University of Sydney

Halvard has four decades of strategic planning experience, including executive roles in the NSW and Victorian planning departments and the Greater Sydney Commission, where he led A Metropolis of Three Cities (2018). He has led metropolitan plans for Greater Sydney and Melbourne, wrote Planning Better Cities: A Practical Guide (2023), and teaches at the University of Sydney, UTS and RMIT.

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Speaker

Eamon Waterford

CEO · Committee for Sydney

Eamon is CEO of the Committee for Sydney, an urban policy think tank backed by more than 150 business, academic and civic institutions. He was previously its Policy Director, and before that Chief Strategy Officer at the NSW Department of Enterprise, Investment and Trade. He began his career working with people experiencing long-term homelessness in Penrith and Blacktown.

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