Critical infrastructure in Western Sydney missing as funding plan comes to ends

Leppington Progress Association's Cynthia Meta is campaigning for infrastructure upgrades in Western Sydney. (ABC News: Nabil Al-Nashar)

A representative of community group Leppington Progress Association is urging for key infrastructure upgrades in Western Sydney.

Advocates are calling on the Commonwealth to work with the state government and local councils to develop a new 10-year plan.

Minister for Western Sydney Prue Car says the NSW government is "investing record amounts to close this gap".

Western Sydney mum Cynthia Meta says many in her community feel fed up with the lack of infrastructure in the city's south-west.

From overcrowding at her local hospital's emergency department to a desperate need for better roads, Ms Meta said her neighbourhood had "fallen right behind".

Ms Meta said parts of her local government area still did not have wastewater connections.

"We're in the middle of a housing crisis — there are thousands of potential blocks but the developers can't buy them or develop them because there's no potable water or wastewater."

Local advocates want a new 10-year infrastructure plan. (ABC News: Nabil Al-Nashar)

She showed the ABC correspondence from her local MP that suggested wastewater connection may not come to her area until 2028 or 2032.

Ms Meta felt if the state government did not have the funding to address the issues it was their job to lobby for federal funds.

The long-time Leppington local represents a group called Leppington Progress Association, which she said had been campaigning for infrastructure upgrades for more than a decade.

Ms Meta pointed to Rickard Road as an example, the main lifeline connecting Leppington Station to the newly developed town centre.

The new high school is under construction in Leppington on Rickard Road. (ABC News: Nabil Al-Nashar)

She said the road, which was in desperate need of upgrades, often experienced bad congestion, particularly during peak hour.

On that same road, a new high school is under construction and another primary school is being renovated, leaving students to walk down muddy roads due to lack of footpaths.

"You have little children walking to this new school they're building on country roads that have not been upgraded in eons," Ms Meta said.

When asked about Rickard Road, Camden Council's general manager Andrew Carfield said: "We do have funding to deliver the road design, but funding has not yet been made available to deliver the actual road upgrades."

He said the not-yet-available funding for road upgrades would include delivering "a whole new roadway with f