Beverley Park apartment developments: council receives $40m applications in two days

Two high-rise development proposals could totally transform a small Sydney suburb after a local council received two applications worth a combined $40,000,000 in just two days. One block will be built around one of the area’s oldest heritage homes.

A modern six-storey unit block will be built around one of the oldest houses in Beverley Park after the $17.5m development was approved in November 2018. Picture: Supplied

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Two high-rise development proposals could totally transform a small Sydney suburb after a local council received two applications worth a combined $40,000,000 in just two days.

Georges River Council received an application to build a seven-storey block of 50 units around a two-storey heritage home on the corner of Lacey St and the Princes Hwy in Beverley Park.

A modern six-storey unit block will be built around one of the oldest houses in Beverley Park after the $17.5m development was accepted in November 2018. Picture: Supplied

“Sunnyside” is one of Kogarah’s oldest homes and is thought to have been constructed before 1870.

The first owner was an Irish immigrant Matthew Carroll, who historians believe built the grand old mansion with a ballroom, grand cedar staircase and a coach house at the rear.

The home was later occupied by Kogarah mayor Patrick Lacey during the late 1880s, and a prominent businessman’s daughter Alice Maude McWilliam during the 1900s.

It became a small private school for a period in the 1940s before McDonald’s attempted to stamp the golden arches upon the stately home in 1995 and was then howled down by local residents.

McDonald’s attempted to transform the old mansion into one of its fast food outlets in the mid-90s. Picture: Supplied

More than a decade later, it could be dwarfed by the modern unit block proposed for the blocks next door.

Four single-storey brick cottages would be demolished to accommodate the $17.55 million development of five one-bedroom apartments, 28 two-bedroom apartments, 15 three-bedroom apartments and two four-bedroom apartments.

Four single-storey homes would be demolished for the proposed unit block. Picture: Supplied

The site is 600m from St Georges Leagues Club and would also include two levels of basement parking and outdoor communal space for residents to socialise together.

A separate development application received on November 28 proposes a unit block of six and seven storeys just 200m away at 5 Wyuna St, Beverley Park.

Further details about the $21.4 million development were yet to be posted online.

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