Sydney to get its first new inner-city suburb in decades as Glebe Island becomes Bays West

‘City-shaping’ transformation of industrial precinct to include more than 8,500 new homes and public waterfront access

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Sydney will get its first new inner city suburb – known as Bays West – in decades, giving public waterfront access to Glebe Island for the first time in more than 100 years alongside 8,500 new homes.

The New South Wales government on Tuesday announced that a long-awaited overhaul of the government-owned land, directly above the under-construction Bays Metro station and near the western end of the Anzac Bridge, will go ahead.