Location and Climate:

Newington Village is built on 90 Hectares of land close to Paramatta River, 25 minutes from the CBD of Sydney.

A gently sloping site to the west of the main Olympic site consisted of salt marsh, wetlands and open grasslands. The environment supported many types of plants typical of the eastern Cumberland Plain-now increasingly rare.

Towards the north the site is surrounded by a prison, to the west by industry, to the south by a motorway and to the east by Haslam’s creek, by the huge Olympic sports campus.

For Newington residents, Paramatta is eight kilometers away; Ryde about ten and the city is 15 Kilometers away, all easily reached by bus, train, ferry and car.

Haslam’s creek has been remediated and returned to its original meandering alignment. In addition the storm water run-off from the village was planned to be filtered into series of newly created wetlands. The wetlands have been deigned to continuously reticulate water, increasing the biological polishing and improving the water quality, as well as to stop mosquito breeding.

Newington is linked to 400 hectares of the beautiful Millennium parklands, which are bigger than Moore Park and Centennial parks combined. A series of finger walkways and cycle way access path are created from Newington into the adjacent Millennium parklands.

Climate:

Sydney is considered to have a moderate climate, with regular rainfall and cooling NE breezes in summer but the heat of summer and cold of winter cannot be underestimated. Humidity is also high for a significant period of the years.