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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Max McKinney

Broadmeadow loco depot should be part of Hunter Park plan: councillor

POTENTIAL: An aerial view of the old Broadmeadow locomotive depot.

The old Broadmeadow locomotive depot should be part of planning for the nearby Hunter Park sports and entertainment precinct, a Newcastle councillor says.

Greens councillor John Mackenzie has called for the NSW government to include the 18-hectare site, which was once the second-largest rail depot in NSW but has largely been abandoned since it closed in 1994, in its investigations for the Hunter Park redevelopment project.

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