Blow to Minns as turf club votes down plan to sell Sydney racecourse to NSW to build 25,000 homes

Rosehill racecourse in Sydney in 2020. The NSW government had offered $5bn for the site, and proposed it would accommodate 25,000 new homes and a proposed Metro stop. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

The Minns government has had a major hole punched in its strategy to boost housing in Sydney after the Australian Turf Club members voted not to sell Rosehill racecourse, earmarked for a major housing development.

The New South Wales government had offered $5bn for the site, and proposed it would accommodate 25,000 new homes and a proposed Metro stop.