Apartments planned for former Rowland Hassall School Parramatta

More plans have emerged for a 600-plus unit complex to spring up on the site of a former school. Find out about the colossal proposal.

How a complex at 34 Hassall St could look if approved.

A 46-storey apartment and retail complex will spring up on the former Rowland Hassall School site at Parramatta if the project is given the green light.

Development company Deicorp has lodged an application with Parramatta Council that reveals plans for 604 apartments over two towers. Shops and offices will occupy the three-storey podium and a six-level basement carpark will have 432 carparking spaces.

A total of 392 units will have two bedrooms, while 93 will have three and 119 will have one bedroom at the buildings which Turner architects designed.

The planners who submitted a report for the development application said residents would have access to parks and public transport with Robin Thomas Reserve and the Harris St light rail stop nearby.

“The proposal will provide a positive social and economic impact with regard to the development of the area and will contribute towards urban renewal and transformational change within the Parramatta central business district,’’ the statement read.

The complex at 34 Hassall St, Parramatta is part of the neighbourhood’s rapid transformation.

“Importantly, the proposed development will provide for jobs, housing and necessary services and retail provision to meet the needs of the area.’’

Planners said there would be no overshadowing, privacy or views compromising adjoining properties.

The Rowland Hassall site at 34 Hassall St is just one of multiple residential towers to transform the part of the suburb best known for the Albion Hotel and the former headquarters for Cumberland Newspapers.

A total of 960 apartments over three towers soaring as high as 60 storeys are planned for where newsrooms and printing presses once rolled at Macquarie St.

At 39-41 Hassall St, 200 built-to-rent apartments are planned and at 12 Hassall St, a 61-storey tower with 400 apartments, a library, cinema, gym and sports bar are planned.

The remaining land at the Rowland Hassall School site will be subject to another retail and residential tower. The school educates special needs children and relocated to Chester Hill.

The Sydney Central City Planning Panel will determine the application.