After multiple attempts, Fabcot, the development arm of Woolworths, has won gateway approval from the planning department for its mixed-use site at 1 – 7 Rangers Road and 50 Yeo Street in Neutral Bay. The site comprises 3 stratum lots, providing a total site area of 4,207m2.

The broad intent of the proposal is to achieve a mixed-use development outcome, including an upgraded full-line Woolworths supermarket, together with supporting retail, commercial and residential land uses. Woolworth is focussed on a new generation mixed-use exemplar development to drive a positive outcome.

Under the department’s gateway approval, new planning controls will soon to be adopted on the site, including increasing the site’s height limit from 16 metres to a mix of 26 and 31 metres. The non-residential floor space ratio will also increase from 0.5:1 to 1.8:1, consistent with the Neutral Bay Town Centre plan.