The Metropolitan Strategy, City of Cities—A Plan for Sydney’s Future was released in December 2005. The Strategy supports continuing economic growth while balancing social and environmental aspects and sets the guiding principles for Sydney to develop in a sustainable way. City of Cities allows the State Government and local government to secure Sydney’s future on a sustainable basis, providing a growing number of residents with stronger cities and centres; a spread of jobs in Western Sydney and along the global economic corridor; fair access to a diversity of housing, jobs, services and open space; safeguarded resource lands; improved environmental outcomes; and improved transport connections. The Strategy is a long–term plan, providing the NSW Government’s framework to manage the growth and development of Sydney over the next 25 years. The Strategy’s implementation is at an early stage, while its long–term success can not be measured, many achievements have already been made, such as: • release of the Government’s Employment Lands for Sydney—Action Plan, setting out the strategy for securing up to 7,500 hectares of additional employment lands in Greater Sydney; • approval of major developments in the Western Sydney Employment Hub, and investigating a further major extension of the Hub as part of the Action Plan; • release of the (draft) city centre plans for the six regional cities of Wollongong, Gosford, Parramatta, Penrith, Liverpool and Newcastle, boosting jobs, housing and lifestyle opportunities in these cities; and • establishment of the Western Sydney Parklands Trust, guiding the future of the green corridor from Blacktown to Liverpool. This update report provides an overview of the key achievements and significant progress of the Metropolitan Strategy since its release. These achievements work towards an economically strong, socially and environmentally sustainable Sydney.