Terry Rd, Box Hill: $472m residential community planned for northwest Sydney
If you thought The Hills had reached breaking point when it comes to massive development plans, you haven’t seen anything yet.
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It is one of the fastest growing regions in Sydney when it comes to population and development, but that hasn’t prevented an expansive vision for a $472 million residential masterplan for The Hills.
The massive proposal for more than 1300 homes to be built in as many as 37 apartment buildings ranging up to six storeys in height surrounding a heritage homestead at 8-32 Terry Rd, Box Hill will be decided on by a NSW planning panel this month after being submitted to The Hills Shire Council in March 2017.
The plans for the Box Hill residential precinct earmarks the construction of 275 residential homes and more than 956 apartments across dozens of multistorey buildings in the residential estate.
Planners for McCall Gardens, an accommodation provider for people with intellectual disabilities said the heritage listed Box Hill House will be the crown of the new 28 hectare residential development.
“The staged proposal has been developed as a concept to detail how the future development
blocks would be arranged and subdivided,” the planner said.
“This has included assessment of the buildable site area and potential residential yield for each block to ensure the planning and engineering outcomes are consistent with applicable controls.”
The planner said the development would “create residential precincts with their individual character and identity”, while also offering open green space a pedestrian and cycle links.
A Hills Shire Council planner said the development “planned residential dwelling yield
across the site that exceeds the draft maximum density” in a statement to the Sydney Central City Planning Panel.
“In response to concerns raised by Council staff with the lack of detail and supporting information around this aspect of the Development Application the applicant revised this number to 1,538 dwellings and then 1,274 dwellings,” the council representative said.
“It should be noted that the letter from the applicant dated 7 August 2019 states that a total of
1,274 dwellings are proposed, however based on the numbers outlined above a total of 1,356
dwellings are proposed.”
The council planner called for the Joint Regional Planning Panel to approve the development when it meets on April 16 as “the proposal will provide the Box Hill Growth Centre Precinct with infrastructure to service the needs of the growing population” and council considered the proposal as being in the public interest.