Built around a courtyard with swaying palms, Campbelltown’s new commuter car park has a secret.

It is not the eerie whistling of wind in the facility’s brightly coloured panels, which Mayor Darcy Lound attributed to the ghost of 19th-century shopkeeper Fred Fisher , said to haunt the local creek.

Imagining a future beyond cars and carbon, Hill Thalis Architects has designed the car park in Sydney’s south-west so it could have as many lives as a cat.

The $25 million car park’s first life will be to meet demand from commuters using Campbelltown railway station by providing 506 spaces in the five-storey building, in addition to 400 existing spaces outside.

Then, instead of being razed when it is no longer needed for parking, the building could be transformed into apartments, offices, or

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