This paper explores how formal and informal institutional arrangements are mobilised in unique ways to secure development approval at a greenfield release site on Sydney’s fringe: Wyong Shire.

Drawing on two cases of large-scale residential property development in NSW (Warnervale Town Centre and ADI-St Marys), this paper situates residential development in relation to planning trajectories in NSW and orients this form towards hybrid forms of neoliberalism.

This paper draws on interviews with local council staff and outlines a series of issues they consider important in shaping renewal in their middle-ring suburbs.