Liverpool: 35-storey tower plans for 26 Elizabeth Street to go before NSW Planning Panel
Plans to build a towering high-rise reaching a whopping 35-storeys will be decided by a NSW Planning Panel next week. SEE THE PLANS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT HERE.
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The fate of a $100 million vision for a towering 35-storey high-rise in Sydney’s southwest will be decided next week.
Ambitious plans for the residential, hotel and commercial development at 26 Elizabeth St, Liverpool, will go before the Sydney Western City Planning Panel on June 9.
The planning proposal earmarks the construction of two levels of commercial space, a 113-room hotel spanning across five storeys and 194 private apartments across a further 25 storeys. A cafe has also been proposed for the lobby of the development.
A planner for the applicant, Binah Developments, said the Liverpool CBD was a “city in a state of change and flux”.
“The design intent in developing the proposal was to investigate what a contemporary, Sydney
residential tower should not only look like but also how it would operate and serve its occupants,” the planner said. “The apartments and the development generally will offer residents a high standard of internal and external amenity.”
The planner argued the development was “in the public interest” as it offers a high level of public spaces along Elizabeth St, increases commercial space in the CBD and offer a “diverse range of housing as well as hotel uses and commercial tenancies”.
A Liverpool council planner called on the NSW Government to approve the development.
The planner said three submissions were made against the proposal, which raised concern around a lack of consideration and documentation on the social, environmental and public impact of the proposal and claims the “proposed building is awkward and absurd which is
unsympathetic to surrounding heritage items”.
Another submission suggested the tower would result in increased traffic and an overdevelopment of the site.
The joint regional planning panel will determine the development on June 9.