It’s rich in commercial opportunity, with a claim to be the city’s culinary capital and its political centre of gravity. Housing and heat are holding it back.

It’s rich in commercial opportunity, with a claim to be the city’s culinary capital and its political centre of gravity. Housing and heat are holding it back.

Data centres are the newest $14 billion drawcard to the west, after the airport. But residents need other infrastructure to benefit from the jobs they bring.

Western Sydney has vast potential, not just commercial but political, as the state government well knows – the region may well be key to its future.