Despite the objection of North Sydney Council, who also imposed heritage orders on six buildings in Graeme Skerritt’s development, the State Significant Development is recommended for approval by the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure. The department’s report approving the proposal and its reasons has just been published.
Approval is still needed from the Independent Planning Commission before a recommendation is made.
The submission created by Morrison Design Partnership and Chrofi is for the construction of 58 independent living units and a 41-bed residential aged care facility contained within three four storey buildings, a seven-storey building and adaptive reuse of six heritage listed cottages. Totalling 7,353m, the land is R4 High Density Residential, a block from the main Military Road.
The units will be one one-bedroom, 26 two-bedroom, 30 three-bedroom and one four-bedroom within three buildings. The residential care facility will be one building and four existing cottages.
Amara Cremorne by Pathways is the sixth application approved since the planning pathway opened in November 2021, with approvals given for:
- Montefiore’s $83 million development of 87 independent retirement living units in Randwick, 6km southeast of Sydney's CBD.
- BaptistCare’s $190 million co-living development at its Carlingford birthplace
- Uniting’s $300 million 400-bed continuum of care development in Charlestown, Newcastle;
- HammondCare’s $82 million plan to demolish its Neringah Hospital site at Wahroonga in Sydney’s Upper North Shore, for a major senior housing project;
- Opal HealthCare’s Narwee Parklands Community Care plan on the site of a former BUPA aged care home.
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