Holdmark is proposing a mixed-use hotel and commercial development at 4 – 6 Bligh Street in Sydney’s CBD.

Having received the Secretary’s Environmental Assessment Requirements (SEARs) last year, the development will include a maximum building height RL of 225.88 metres (or 59-storeys), 26,796sqm of gross floor area, including 6,166sqm of commercial office space and 20,630sqm of hotel space.

The site has a total area of 1,218sqm and the full extent of the site is expected to be physically disturbed by the project.

SEARs were previously issued in September 2018 for a State significant DA for a similar use but has since expired, as the development application was not submitted within 2 years.

Existing on the site is a commercial office building with ground floor retail and basement carparking, known as ‘Bligh House’.

Completed in 1964, Bligh House is a 17-storey tower inclusive of a three-storey podium.

The new Sydney Metro will provide two new station entries near the site in 2024 and 2030, allowing office occupiers to be connected by rail to the vast majority of Greater Sydney.

Given this proposal is a tourist-related development with a capital investment value in excess of $100 million, it is considered State significant.