Developer Andrew Taplin now wants to build 6-storey apartments on top of Glenelg shopping centre
ANOTHER day, another bid to build a multi-storey apartment block in the heart of Glenelg. The latest plans, which involve building on top of a shopping centre, are now awaiting approval.
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GLENELG property mogul Andrew Taplin plans to build six storeys of apartments above the Bayside Village shopping centre at the corner of Jetty and Brighton roads.
Mr Taplin has lodged plans for the centre, now two storeys high, with the Development Assessment Commission (DAC).
Along with the apartments, the works would include extra spaces in an enlarged second-storey carpark.
The shopping centre was built in 2009 with the potential for apartments in mind.
The new plans follow news Mr Taplin also wants to spend close to $60 million on two other new retail and apartment buildings on Jetty Rd — one at the corner of Colley Tce and the other at the corner of Partridge St.
A new development plan approved by the State Government in June allowed buildings up to eight storeys high to be built on the Bayside Village site.
Mr Taplin was overseas last week and could not be reached.
Bayside Village businesses welcomed the plans.
The Source Bulk Foods Glenelg manager Carly Messer said apartments were a “great idea”.
“We’ve got a really lovely sense of community in this centre — we all work together really well and I think having some residents above it would work really well,” Ms Messer said.
Bayside Fruit N More owner Adam Venables said the plan would be good for Bayside Village and “for Glenelg in general”.
In a submission during consultation on rezoning plans for Glenelg last year, Mr Taplin said, “Bayside Village is considered to be entirely suited to a higher residential density … as it is well serviced and connected, very convenient for residents, and suited for an apartment development”.
He said a development on the site would need to be more than six storeys high to be financially viable.
As reported by the CoastCity Weekly earlier this month, Mr Taplin has lodged plans with the DAC for an eight-storey building at the northern corner of Jetty Rd and Colley Tce, overlooking Moseley Square.
Another retail and apartment building, at the southwestern corner of Jetty Rd and Partridge St, would be seven storeys.
The height limit along most of Jetty Rd is five storeys, but planning rules allow for up to eight storeys on those two sites because they are larger than 1500 sq m.