$17 million overhaul approved for Bayside Village shopping centre at corner of Brighton and Jetty roads, Glenelg

WORK to begin converting the Bayside Village shopping centre to an eight-storey complex with apartments and shops could begin early next year.

• Taplin’s Partridge St development approved
• Seven-storey plan for Colley Tce, Glenelg
• Nine-storey complex bid for behind Glenelg’s Stamford Grand

WORK to begin converting the Bayside Village shopping centre to an eight-storey complex with apartments and shops could begin early next year.

The State Commission Assessment Panel has approved the Taplin Group’s $17 million plan for the shopping centre at the corner of Brighton and Jetty roads in Glenelg.

The company’s complex, featuring 28 apartments above the existing shops and extra car parking space, would be the first of its three major developments expected to drastically change the Jetty Rd landscape.

Director Andrew Taplin said he expected the Bayside development would be “the start of exciting things to happen” at the Bay.

“In a perfect world, we’d hope to start in early 2019,” Mr Taplin said.

“We intend to set a high standard and I think when people see it finished, and can see how good the whole urban living concept is, it will really kick things along.”

Existing shop tenants would stay in the centre, he said, which would remain open during construction.

The Taplin Group is also planning two other major apartment and shopping complexes along the strip – one at the corner of Colley Tce and another at Partridge St.

The company is awaiting approval of amended plans for its seven-storey Colley Tce development.

The eight-storey Partridge St project has already been given the go-ahead. Mr Taplin said Adelaide had been “behind the game” in offering apartment-living, which was “the way of the future”.

“It’s been happening not just in the eastern states but all over the world,” he said.

“This is our chance to learn from others, catch up and get on with it.”

Development rules in Holdfast Bay changed in May 2016 to allow taller buildings, and Taplin Group lodged its plans in January last year.

A report to the assessment panel said fears over “excessive height, overbearing mass and scale, interface impacts, traffic congestion and ... parking demand” did not outweigh the application’s merit.

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