Plans to transform a Harris Park cottage into a ‘Spice Alley’ style restaurant precinct – inclusive of a rooftop garden and five food outlets – have been revealed.
The famous Wigram Street Indian restaurant-strip could soon see even more food options come to ‘Little India’, If a Development Application (DA) gets the tick of approval from City of Parramatta.
The plans intend to transform the existing building at 63 Wigram Street, Harris Park, into a restaurant with an outdoor dining area, featuring a range of mixed street food operators.
The existing driveway would become an accessible thoroughfare between Wigram Street and Gordon McKinnon Lane, with a new carpark to be constructed at the rear of the building.
The new dining space is expected to operate between 10am and 10pm, across seven days, with a maximum of eighteen to twenty staff members to be on-site at any given time.
The restaurant will have space for a maximum of 90 people and 35 people at the food outlets.
The Harris Park building is one of three single-storey cottages on Wigram Street, which make up a locally listed heritage item.
The DA said the proposed design will respect the existing character of the surrounding neighbourhood.
“The design will respect existing setbacks, height controls and architectural language by fitting into the overall character of the heritage item and the wider Heritage Conservation Area,” the document said.
“There will be no physical impact to the neighbouring cottages, no.’s 59 – 61 and 65 Wigram Street, heritage items in the vicinity and the Harris Park West Conservation Area.”
Located just 290m from Harris Park Train Station, the proposed development site is located in one of the most popular streets in the Parramatta Local Government Area.
Ellie Busby is a news reporter for Western Sydney Publishing Group. A graduate of the University of Hertfordshire and Western Sydney University, she is a journalism Major. Ellie has worked with Universal Media, The Cova Project and for a range of other organisations. In 2024, Ellie was named Young Writer of the Year at the Mumbrella Publish Awards.