RAA reveals plans for its Port Road technical centre

New plans reveal the RAA’s proposed technical centre will have a glass atrium that rises 15.5m high – see the images here.

Artist impressions of the RAA's proposed new office building at West Croydon. Picture: Emmett Property

New images have revealed the RAA’s new proposed technical centre at West Croydon will showcase a 15.5m glass atrium.

Announced last month, the centre at 599 Port Rd will incorporate the RAA’s automotive services and roadside assistance, its child safety centre, drive school and parts of its travel, solar and battery divisions.

Adelaide-based fund manager ICAM will own the site and lease it to the RAA, which is also moving hundreds of its staff into a new headquarters at the former Internode building on Grenfell St.

Artist impressions of the RAA's proposed new office building at West Croydon. Picture: Woods Bagot

Artist impressions of the RAA's proposed new office building at West Croydon. Picture: Woods Bagot

It will be built beside Kilkenny Primary School on the former home of compressor manufacturer Forbes, which will be demolished.

Plans now submitted to Plan SA say the three-storey building will include an atrium housing a staircase that rises two metres higher than the rest of the complex.

The plans submitted for developers Emmett say the atrium won’t be a “visible or notable element” from the street.

“The proposed development is considered to satisfy … the Zone and provides an orderly transition to the built form scale within the neighbourhood-type zone to complement the streetscape character, and certainly provides a far more orderly transition than the existing built form on the site that it will replace,” the plans say.

Artist impressions of the RAA's proposed new office building at West Croydon. Picture: Woods Bagot

Artist impressions of the RAA's proposed new office building at West Croydon. Picture: Woods Bagot

Artist impressions of the RAA's proposed new office building at West Croydon. Picture: Woods Bagot

The atrium would be set back further than the building line of the complex, about 16.4m from Port Rd and 26.5m from Jane St.

The building’s corner at the intersection of Port Rd and Jane St would reach 13.1m, the documents say.

The ground floor would comprise the automotive workshop, child safety centre, public areas and the showroom, with offices on the second two floors.

RAA has signed a long-term lease for the facility, which is set to open in the first half of 2026, and will have the capacity to house more than 400 employees.

Both ICAM and the RAA declined to provide further comment.

Submissions on the plans are open until September 4.

Originally published as RAA reveals plans for its Port Road technical centre