Developers revive Korean housing project

Plans for a huge Korean-led housing development have been partially revived and will this time no doubt proceed, according to Tasmania’s Korean consul.

Korean consul and Hobart City Council Alderman Damon Thomas.

PLANS for a huge Korean-led housing development have been partially revived and will this time no doubt proceed, according to Korean consul Damon Thomas.

All Urban Planning has lodged an application with the Clarence City Council on behalf of Dream Tasmania Holdings for a 169-lot subdivision over Pass and Goodwins roads at Rokeby.

The plans show the development would be built in 15 stages with an average lot size of 532m2. However, the application stressed plans could change subject to a field survey.

The proposed subdivision falls within a lot included in the failed ParanVille development — a suburb aimed partly at Asian buyers that would have included shops, student accommodation and a sports centre, touting Tasmania’s cool climate, clean air and safety from potential nuclear war as among reasons people from overseas should opt in to the $1 billion proposal.

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Ald Thomas, also a Hobart alderman, said he had full confidence in the new developers. Companies Gold Mania, Daesungtas, Hotas and GBA Property Holdings were listed as owners of the various titles in the application plans lodged with Clarence City Council.

“There are very solid interests behind this project,” Ald Thomas said.

“The whole idea has always been a community that embraced both [Australia and Korea] … we’re very close in many of our characteristics.”

Clarence Mayor Doug Chipman said on Wednesday the new subdivision application would be assessed afresh in accordance with his council’s planning scheme.

The council had not received information on why ParanVille did not proceed despite receiving the go-ahead, Ald Chipman said.

“One can only speculate,” Ald Chipman said.

Ald Thomas said he understood the philosophy of the project was similar to that of ParanVille but stressed the proposed community was intended to appeal to Asian and Australian buyers.

Gold Mania registered a Rokeby office with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on February 20.

Daesungtas’s website detailed its plans for a housing development dubbed GreenVille, which was proposed for a site included in the subdivision application on Pass Road.

Its website said the $500 million proposal was “denied for some reason” but the new proposal is on the same site.

Representations on the subdivision application close on Monday.