With the population of Sydney expected to reach 7 million+ in the next 20 years, current strategic planning policy is firmly growth oriented in its aims, and growth dependent in its settings, with a key focus on promoting higher density redevelopment around rail stations through value uplift. Using the Sydenham-to-Bankstown Corridor as our case study, this paper engages with the contradictions underpinning current templates for market-driven urban renewal. Questioning models privileging a financialised, hypertrophic reconfiguration of existing neighbourhoods, we examine thebusinessof densification and its spatial manifestation(s) to explore potential frameworks for greater inclusivity in both the process, and outcomes, of suburban growth.