The 18.2ha holding at 27 Railway Street runs alongside the South Coast rail line, immediately south of Corrimal railway station. This proximity underpins the density shift and places the site within walking distance of services to Wollongong and Sydney. Design is led by DKO Architecture with planning by Urbis and landscape by Land & Form.
The Corrimal Coke Works ceased operating in April 2014 after 102 years of continuous industry, according to planning documents. Legacy Property, through the Trustee for LegPro 70 Unit Trust in partnership with landowner Illawarra Coke Company, advanced a masterplan following rezoning in 2022 for what is now known as The Works Corrimal.
Project material for The Works Corrimal identified an ultimate yield of about 850 homes across the precinct. More than a century of heavy industry left contamination and legacy infrastructure across the corridor land, the planning documents said. Demolition, soil excavation and remediation formed part of the delivery sequence before residential occupation. Bulk earthworks approved under separate civil works applications established new ground levels across Stages 2 to 4.
Groundwater assessment and validation work was undertaken under earlier environmental approvals. A site-specific amendment to the Wollongong Local Environmental Plan was gazetted in April 2022, enabling medium-density housing and public open space. The land was added to the State Heritage Register the following month, with a mapped curtilage shaping where uplift can apply.
At full build-out, the precinct would deliver about 850 homes and up to 9ha of open space, including central and southern parks, riparian corridor works and a heritage plaza anchored by retained chimneys.
Stage 1 comprises 179 apartments on the northern parcel and built form consent was secured in April 2025. Construction is under way.