From time to time, electorate's have to have their boundaries redrawn to cater for the ever changing population. Greenway has changed drastically with the urban sprawl and this time around the changes to the electorate have been substantial. Below are the details of the shift and included as well is a new map.
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The existing division of Greenway has projected enrolment above statistical tolerance and has higher than average projected enrolment growth. It shares boundaries with Macquarie to the north, Mitchell and Parramatta to the east, Prospect to the south and Chifley to the west. Changes made to the division of Parramatta resulted in the loss of approximately 31 200 Greenway electors in the area bounded by the M7 Motorway, Sunnyholt Road, the main western railway line, Blacktown Creek, Blacktown Road and the Great Western Highway. Greenway also gained approximately 42 000 electors from division of Macquarie following the transfer of Hawkesbury LGA.
The committee recognised that the proposed division needed to incorporate more significant means of travel following the addition of Hawkesbury LGA. Therefore, the committee decided to move the existing boundary along Richmond Road south, making Richmond Road a major transport route through the division.
This move consequently transferred approximately 4 300 electors from Shanes Park, Marsden Park, Berkshire Park and Londonderry into Greenway. The committee considered that these areas shared interests with other communities located in the division. As a result, Greenway needed to lose approximately 23 000 electors to achieve statistical tolerance. Given the changes made to the neighbouring divisions of Parramatta, Mitchell and Macquarie, these electors could only be transferred to either Chifley or Prospect.
The committee decided to move the existing boundary with Chifley north and east to the M7 Motorway, Breakfast Creek, Sunnyholt Road, and the main western railway line, Blacktown Creek, Blacktown Road and the Prospect Highway. The southern boundary was moved to the Great Western Highway. This change transferred electors in Dean Park, Marayong, Woodcroft and Blacktown into Chifley.
