Glamorgan Spring Bay Council approves Swansea’s Morris General Store development

Plans for visitor accommodation and hospitality buildings will be built along the main street of Swansea to compliment a heritage listed icon. See the plans.

Artists' impression for a major redevelopment of the Morris General Store in Swansea. DKO Architecture.

The old Morris General Store will form a key part of a major development along the main street of Swansea, after it was given the green light on Tuesday.

The Glamorgan Spring Bay Council voted on Tuesday to approve the development at 13-15 Franklin Street of the former Morris’ General Store.

Food services, six two-storey dwellings and a hotel and a wine bar will be built across the site.

Artists' impression for a residential dwellings, which forms part of the Morris General Store development in Swansea. DKO Architecture.

Currently at the site, next to the old warehouse is an IGA supermarket, which will be demolished to make way for the hospitality building.

A second hospitality building will sit to the east of the main building and will be one storey high.

The Morris General Store is on the Tasmanian Heritage Register.

Under previous plans, the warehouse would have been used as part of the hotel development, but now the developer will only undertake conservation and stabilisation works.

Before the developer begins work, they will need to make a cash payment to the council because it doesn’t have enough carparking in the plans.

The council says the payment must be equivalent to 23 carparking spaces.

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