Plan for Barrio Developments’ Glenelg apartment building to rise to nine storeys

A proposed Glenelg apartment building would reach even higher under new plans to stack on three more levels.

The developers of a proposed six-storey apartment building on prime Glenelg waterfront land want to go even higher, plans show.

Documents lodged with PlanSA reveal the building on Adelphi Tce has already been increased from four storeys to six.

Barrio Developments received planning consent in June 2023 for a four-storey, 28-apartment building at 16 Adelphi Tce – and then additional consent to add two more levels and 12 more units.

An artist impression of Barrio Developments’ proposed new apartment block, which it wants to raise to nine storeys. Picture: Future Urban

Now the developers want to go to nine storeys and 53 apartments.

Planning documents reveal the building’s additional section would be swivelled slightly – giving tower a different look, with the upper levels facing a slightly different way.

Barrio Developments are aiming to add three more levels and 13 new units to an existing six-storey apartment proposal in Glenelg. Picture: Future Urban

When the first change was approved, the State Commission Assessment Panel noted concerns with apartment layouts, the length of apartment corridors and the lobby.

Documents say the “design flaws” were “taken seriously” by the developers, who had relocated the lift, shortened the corridors, and increased the ground floor lobby.

They removed two ground floor apartments, include an adaptable ‘common room’ next to the residential lobby and cut three carparks.

Barrio Developments already has its Quayview On Adelphi building under construction on the same street at 22-23 Adelphi Tce.

An artist impression of Quayview by Adelphi, Barrio Developments’ other project at Glenelg North.

Under the latest changes, the building would rise from 18.48m to 27.1m.

The section that would be added under the new plans. Picture: Future Urban

Under the new plans, the apartment includes 20 three-bedroom units, 23 with two bedrooms and eight affordable apartments with two or one bedrooms.

The documents say the Glenelg site has maximum building heights of 18.5m, but recently approved and constructed buildings in area are “all by definition high-rise and taller than five building levels or 18.5m tall”.

“The proposed development will not result in ‘direct overlooking’ of habitable room windows or private open spaces of adjacent residential uses,” the plans say.

“The building includes a 15 per cent affordable housing offering, with contracts executed with SAHA, in order to maximise the opportunity for affordable housing purchase.

”The affordable apartments will be preferentially supplied with solar PV-generated energy, in order to further reduce their energy costs.”

Barrio Developments have been contacted for comment.