Tuggerah: New owner HomeCo Daily Needs lodges amended plans for $29.8M bulky good retail centre
Amended plans have been lodged for a $29.8 million bulky good retail centre opposite Bunnings, which sees food pads and “obtuse angles” cut in favour of rectangle buildings and more parking.
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The new owner of a proposed large format retail outlet opposite Tuggerah Super Centre argues the changes are essentially the same minus the “obtuse angles”.
But floor plans show it’s more like comparing apples and bananas.
The ink was barely dry on plans signed off by the Local Planning Planning Panel (LPP) for a $29.8 million bulky good retail outlet opposite the Tugerah Super Centre when its new owner lodged changes that will cut the corners of three large buildings and lose two trendy “food pads” in favour of more parking.
The planning panel approved the development application (DA) for the site at 11 Bryant Drive in January after it was deferred last year over flooding concerns and lack of consultation with surrounding land owners.
The DA was first lodged in 2019 by Aventus Tuggerah Pty Ltd, which owned the Tuggerah Super Centre, after it purchased the 5.6ha block from Bunnings Properties for $3.75 million in 2016.
However ASX-listed HomeCo Daily Needs REIT merged with Aventus Group in February this year and the new owner set about lodging an amended set of plans to turn the heptagonal buildings into boxy rectangles.
Under the amended plans the floor plan of the site would be reconfigured significantly with the “obtuse angles” cut off the three main proposed buildings and the removal of a central food pad.
This would see the overall gross floor area for bulky retail trimmed ever so slightly by 4sq m but lead to a net increase of 85 parking spaces.
The changes would see two “food pads” removed from the plans and replaced by a stand-alone fast food restaurant beside the existing Nick Scalli shop next door and two takeaway outlets which would form part of “building C”.
The popular Return & Earn facility, which was incorporated into the approved DA has also been scrapped from the amended plans.
HomeCo Daily Needs states in its statement of environmental effects the modifications are to “change the siting of the buildings within the approved development parameters” by removing the “obtuse angles” so they are more “conducive to large format retail” shops.
The company states the changes remain “substantially the same development” and don’t result in a radical transformation of the approved plans because the bulk, height and setbacks of the buildings remain the same, along with the accesses to Bryant Drive and Lake Rd.
“While the proposal seeks to alter the configuration of the Site, this is not considered to be material or essential elements of the approved development which would constitute a radical change to the ultimate development outcome of the subject site,” the amended plans state.
“While it is acknowledged that the proposal does include some minor qualitative changes to the approved development, these are not considered to be substantial, or comprise a critical element of the development.”
HomeCo Daily Needs was contacted for a response.
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