CSR Property focuses on maximising financial returns of surplus former manufacturing sites and industrial land.

The Property team has extensive experience in managing large scale property projects including:

• Site rezoning
• Remediation
• Biodiversity
• Civil earthworks
• Road construction
• Infrastructure and services

CSR Property also provides the CSR businesses with strategic property advice on future impacts of urban expansion on key CSR sites as well as managing CSR's extensive leased and owned property portfolio in excess of 180 sites across Australia and New Zealand.

This video includes details of two of CSR's Property projects in western Sydney

Key projects

Schofields, NSW – Residential development

• Currently operating as a PGH Brick factory, the Schofields site is targeted for future residential development
• The 80 hectare site has capacity for 1,525+ lots
• Rezoning is due for completion in late 2020 in this rapidly growing area in northwest Sydney
• Quarry rehabilitation completed with ongoing development work underway

Horsley Park, NSW – Industrial development

• Horsley Park is the site of a former PGH Brick factory and quarry which totals over 52 hectares of industrial land
• CSR has rehabilitated this site over a number of years to prepare the land for industrial use
• All available sites at Horsley Park have now been sold generating proceeds of $408 million 
• The total of completed and contracted transactions, delivered over a six year period, is expected to generate EBIT in excess of $230 million from the 52 hectare site

Western Sydney - strategic sites:

CSR Property has a number of strategic sites in western Sydney totalling over 450 hectares.

Key sites include:

• Badgerys Creek - 200 hectares located directly adjacent to Western Sydney International Airport
• Cecil Park - 37 hectares currently operating as a PGH Bricks plant located close to major arterial roads at the intersection of the M7, Elizabeth Drive and M4
• Bringelly - 92 hectares currently operating as a PGH Bricks plant located in the South West Growth Area

Chirnside Park, VIC – Residential Development

• Chirnside Park is 33km east of Melbourne CBD
• CSR converted the 43 hectare site into a large residential development totalling almost 600 residential lots.
• Construction and siteworks began in October 2012
• Total proceeds expected for the project ~$200m and EBIT of ~$55m