Helping Hand Aged Care reveals revised plans for residential retirement village in North Adelaide
A high-end retirement apartment complex has been proposed for North Adelaide after previous plans were rejected by the city council.
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A new retirement village could take shape in North Adelaide, with a proposed plan revealed five years after Adelaide City Council’s planning panel rejected an earlier design for redevelopment.
Aged-care provider Helping Hand Aged Care has lodged development plans with the State Planning Commission to demolish residential buildings on 157–163 Childers for multiple new homes.
The proposed 2270sq m retirement facility would boast two, three-storey residential apartments, each with 12 units, ground floor carparking, solar panels and community garden.
The homes would range from 110 sqm, two-bedroom, ground-floor apartments, up to larger 156sq m three-bedroom units and three-bedroom penthouses on the top floors, boasting three bathrooms.
The ground floor will also have a mix of 13 separate single and double private garages accessible through a common driveway, pedestrian walkway, communal amenities such as a meeting room and wine racks, and community gardens behind the southern part of building two.
The existing site, owned and managed by Helping Hand, currently has three single-storey residential buildings being used as independent retirement living units that will be demolished if the plans are approved.
The facility will add to Helping Hand North Adelaide Precinct’s grand plan portfolio – spanning across Childers St and Molesworth St, to the south – to provide aged care, retirement and wellness within an inner-city location.
Helping Hand owns 21 allotments across North Adelaide, including heritage-listed buildings, two aged-care residential homes, retirement living units, rental properties and corporate offices.
It is planning to deliver three key precincts in North Adelaide, Whyalla and Clare.
“It is our vision that our precincts set a new standard of care in South Australia and bring to life continuum-of-care communities,” they say in the planning statement.
The plans are available for public consultation until February 5.
In 2020, Helping Hand’s plan to spend $4m redeveloping its retirement village in North Adelaide was rejected by Adelaide City Council’s planning panel amid concerns about open space, the development’s bulk, traffic and landscaping.
The council report said the development was at odds with the historic character of Childers St and the development needed at least 50 per cent of landscaped open space – but had only 21 per cent.
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