Diggers @The Entrance lodges plans for $36.2M seniors living apartments and new car park
Diggers @The Entrance has lodged plans for 89 seniors living apartments in two buildings up to five storeys high and a new $1.5 million two-storey car park, to make up for the lost parking.
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After the success of its 52-room, $8 million Ibis Styles Hotel, which opened in 2015, Diggers @The Entrance has lodged plans for a $36.2 million foray into seniors living apartments.
The club wants to build 89 independent seniors living apartments overlooking Tuggerah Lake across two buildings ranging from two-to-five storeys.
A development application (DA) lodged with Central Coast Council states the club intends on demolishing two homes, which it currently rents to tenants at the corner of Archibold and Gallipoli roads, to make way for the two buildings across The Entrance Rd from Long Jetty Vet.
The proposed development is to be known as “Yungala” and will include a reception, meeting rooms, staff office, communal open space and parking for 106 vehicles in a partly-excavated ground floor/basement car park.
The plans also include a footpath to “provide access and physical connectivity between the proposed development and the existing Diggers Club”.
There is also a “central landscaped spine of open space” running north-south through the first level as well as courtyards, seating and barbecues at various locations.
How the proposed development will look from properties across The Entrance Rd.
“The proposed development will provide a significant increase in the availability of high-quality seniors housing product to the market in a premium location and in proximity to an extensive range of services and facilities provided both within the Diggers Club and the surrounding area,” the DA stated.
It said “in so doing, will enable more local residents to remain independent but living within the local community and maintaining existing social networks”.
“The apartments have been designed to facilitate views to Tuggerah Lake, have good solar design and natural ventilation and hence offer a high level of amenity for residents and each apartment.”
The development will have a total ground floor area of 8555sq m and include 87 two-bedroom apartments, two three-bedroom units and a private rooftop garden for one unit on the western building and communal rooftop space on the eastern building.
The eastern building along The Entrance Rd will step down to maintain a 16m height while the western building will vary from two-to-five stories.
The DA states the development “does not have an unreasonable impact on” lake views to residents on the eastern side of The Entrance Rd.
How the proposed development will look from properties across The Entrance Rd
In order to make up the 102 lost parking spaces taken up by the development, the club has lodged a separate DA to remove its eastern bowling green and build a two-storey car park at the northern end of the property.
The new car park would boast 107 parking spaces and new footpaths to the club at a cost of $1.5 million.
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