Backing onto the Bankstown Golf Club, the retirement village and aged care facility in Milperra, 24km west of the CBD, will include 103 aged care beds and 127 retirement living units to be built in three stages.

According to the Department of Health, there is a shortfall of more than 1,000 beds in the Canterbury-Bankstown area and only four retirement villages within 10km of the Milperra site.

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