Master plan for Newton town centre rolled out

Published 11:18 pm Monday, April 13, 2026

Surrey council endorsed a Newton Centre Master Development Plan on Monday that focuses on 35 acres of city-owned land and five acres owned by TransLink at King George Boulevard and 72 Avenue and establishes a “strategic framework” to guide future development there.

Council voted after hearing a presentation from Surrey City Development Corporation (SCDC) representatives Bill Aujla, president and CEO, and Amber Osadan-Ulman, director of real estate.

Aujla described a long-term vision for the site that will transform public land in the Newton core into a “vibrant, transit-oriented community.” He said the 77-page plan is a culmination of many years of work to bring “a diversity of homes, civic amenities and local commercial spaces” to the neighbourhood.

“This approval that we’re seeking today is to mayor and council, in your capacity as the land owner. The next steps will be to come back and rezone the sites in a phase-by-phase manner,” he said. “This could take up to 30 years to complete because it all depends on market conditions and as part of that rezoning we will be coming back as, like any other land owner seeking council’s approval in your regulatory capacity.”

Osadan-Ulman provided an overview of the vision, which includes the $310 million community centre, road right-of-way upgrades and a TransLink rapid bus transit station.

“The plan shows and highlights alignment between government and non-government bodies that’s SCDC, TransLink in the city of Surrey and probably really importantly for SCDC, it helps us unlock development potential and provide certainty to developers so we can attract investment to this area,” she said. “It could potentially include 2,200 new homes” as well as accommodate 4,000 residents and up to 150,000 square feet of retail and commercial space.

The first phase involves a “King George Transit Village” on the former Rona site, bounded by King George to the east, 70B Avenue to the north, 135 Street to the west and The Brick to the south.

“I will say that it is very exciting,” Mayor Brenda Locke remarked. “I’m very glad you are going to be working in the Newton area because certainly we have done so much with the Focus Newton campaign that we started some years ago.

“Newton is our largest town centre so giving it that kind of TLC is really important that we do that,” she said.