The Gables

New migrants could be sent to live in the bush to ease our population boom. On the edge of Sydney's rolling hills district along with the horses, houses are now popping up in the middle of paddocks. In the next few years Prime Farmland will be transformed into 10,000 family friendly homes and they're It might not look Box Hill on the fringe of the city's northwest is booming. The northwest sector is bucking the trend, the demand is quite good, suits a lot of people, families, investors, older couples. The suburbs transformation is being driven by projects To date we've sold about 750 lots and we've still got a fair way to go. In the last two months two houses on this busy street have resold for six figures. It doesn't come as a surprise to us because we are investing such amount of capital into this development. Those proposed perks include sports fields, a town centre and a local primary school. A short distance down the road just under 3,000 new lots have been made available, prices starting at $400,000. Well we basically moved out here because Sydney is a bit unaffordable, better priced out here, the infrastructure's a lot better out here, it's all new and it's an up and coming area. In the houses that we used to live in before they were smaller and we have much more freedom and there's more people to play with. Just two years ago in this part of Box Hill everything looked Now it'starting to look a little more And the infrastructure's not far behind, in six months the North West Rail will open, providing a link from the hills to the CBD. Will be great, I mean I've probably still worked for a couple of years and they tell me it's only going to be a 15 minute trip into Chatswood. But for now some are enjoying the last moments of tranquility before everyone else moves in. A few more neighbours, a few more children, bigger noise, they'll be great. The Australian dream as they say. Charlotte Goodlett 9 News.