Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has scuttled a plan to build 100,000 apartments and 75,000 offices in a run-down industrial estate in southern Sydney, a move Liberal councillor Edward Mandla said “would have made Karl Marx proud”.

Sydney Council instead wants to create a business park four times bigger than Macquarie Park on the 265ha “southern employment lands” which stretches from Green Square to Alexandria and Rosebery.

Business park plan pushes aside idea for mixed purpose development in Rosebery area