West Torrens Council opposes eight-storey building in Glandore after approval through SCAP

West Torrens Council has hit out at a 35-apartment complex approved for the Anzac Hwy that was approved after an “error”.

An eight-storey residential building with 35 units has been approved for Glandore, in a move a local council vows will not be repeated.

The application from Walpol Development, on behalf of Future Urban, for 192 Anzac Hwy was approved by the State Commission Assessment Panel last week.

The council will seek a code amendment to ensure no other buildings are approved at eight storeys.

It comes months after the development height limit for eight blocks along the highway at Glandore – including 192 – was increased from three storeys to eight after an “error” in the new planning code.

West Torrens Council stated the building’s height is “inappropriate”, its density “excessive” and it had a lack of adequate landscaping and it will fight to change the code back to the original three storeys.

The application was initially lodged several years ago under the former planning and design code which allowed eight storeys for the location.

In a letter from the council’s senior planning officer Jordan Leverington, the council called on the SCAP to “lapse” the application as it had been “significantly more than two years since it was lodged”.

“The proposed building height is still considered inappropriate,” Mr Leverington wrote.

“The prolonging of the consent and subsequent construction will only be further detrimental to the locality and adjoining residents.”

Renders of the contentious eight-storey tower set for the Anzac Hwy, Glandore. Picture: Future Urban.

The eight properties, between South Rd and Beckman St, include an OTR service station, a lighting store and a number of residential properties.

The maximum development height for those properties increased from three storeys to eight, which was the previous limit prior to the new planning code introduced in March.

West Torrens Council “does not agree that the height should be eight levels” for those eight properties and will seek to prepare a proposal to initiate a code amendment to reduce height limits to three levels, a council document revealed.

West Torrens Mayor Michael Coxon told The Messenger the council would do its best to ensure “any future developments proposed in that area be subject to a height limit of three storeys”.

Meanwhile, the SCAP’s acting senior planning officer, Hannah Connell, found “some overshadowing impacts will be experienced by adjoining properties” at 192 Anzac Hwy but it was not considered unreasonable.

Residents in the suburb are already up in arms after more than 100 locals received letters saying their homes may be razed to make room for the South Rd upgrade.