Mattamy's 556-home subdivision at 1156 Burnhamthorpe Road East went to a public meeting in March 2025

What happened

On March 3, 2025, Oakville's Planning and Development Council held the statutory public meeting on a zoning amendment and draft plan of subdivision for 1156 Burnhamthorpe Road East, on the south side of Burnhamthorpe Road East west of Ninth Line in Ward 6. The applicant is Mattamy (Joshua Creek) Limited, the Town's project page calls the project Mattamy Joshua Creek North, and the files are Z.1309.08 and 24T-24005/1309. The Town gave notice that the application was complete on December 20, 2024.

The minutes record one oral submission, the applicant's own presentation. Council then voted 15 to 0 to receive the public's comments and to send staff four matters to address: the size and shape of the two village squares, including any parkland credit the Town might give for them; the design and alignment of the roads; supplemental parking for the rear-lane homes; and where snow would be stored. In the same motion Council waived its street-naming procedure so that one road in the future subdivision can be named Sybil Rampen Way.

What is proposed

The applicant's planning report describes the land as vacant, irregular in shape and about 63.02 hectares, of which 33.48 hectares would be protected in three natural heritage system blocks along the western edge, through the middle and across the south, and dedicated to the Town. Housing would go on what remains: 382 detached houses, 96 street townhouses and 78 rear-lane townhouses, for 556 homes. The plan also includes one mixed-use block, two stormwater management ponds and two village squares, one of 0.48 hectares west of the central natural heritage block and one of 0.52 hectares east of it.

The site sits among other north Oakville subdivisions. The planning report places the Rampen Holdings subdivision, planned for 181 homes, to the west, earlier Mattamy and Argo subdivisions to the south and southeast, and a driving range and tennis facility to the east. Access would come from Burnhamthorpe Road East by five new public roads.

Where it stands now

The current status could not be fully established from public records, and this is what they show. As of November 9, 2026, the Town's project page still carried only the first submission, dated December 2024, and no staff report. No recommendation report, zoning by-law or draft plan approval for the file appears in Planning and Development Council or Council minutes from the March 2025 meeting through September 2026. The file is not listed in the Town's planning applications open data layer, which is where a status such as Public Meeting or Council Approval would normally be shown. A search of the Ontario Land Tribunal's case-status database the same day found no case under the address or file numbers.

Taken together, that points to an application that remains under review without a decision, but the Town has not said so in those words. The next public step would be a recommendation report to Planning and Development Council.