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12/02/2024
North Sydney Council is in receipt of a rezoning proposal for a key site in the booming St Leonards.
Located at 601 Pacific Highway, the site is bound by Atchison Street to the north, the Pacific Highway to the south, Mitchell Street Plaza to the east and No. 617 Pacific Highway to the west and has a total area of 2,843.63m2.
Stockland is advocating for a height increase from 49 metres to 189 metres and a new 20:1 FSR. The intent of the proposal is to facilitate the delivery of a 42-storey commercial building with a part 5-storey and part 6-storey podium and 36-storey tower above. The indicative concept scheme includes over 56,000 square metres of commercial office space and circa 400 square metres of retail floor space.
A key objective of the rezoning proposal is to implement the planning framework identified in the 2036 St Leonards and Crows Nest strategic plan. The plan states that changes to a site’s existing statutory planning controls will be required to allow development to occur in line with the plan.
View of the site looking north-west along the Pacific Highway
Council is currently carrying out an assessment of Stockland’s proposal. Council has indicated that a 189 metre height limit is excessive for the number of storeys envisaged under the 2036 plan and will result in greater level of overshadowing and visual impacts than necessary. Instead, Council is suggesting a 171 metre height limit.
Prior to this rezoning proposal, Stockland lodged a separate proposal to increase the building height from 49 metres to 212 metres, establish a site-specific non-residential FSR control of 3.9:1 and a maximum overall FSR control of 20:1. Council and the local planning panel both did not support this proposal at the time as it didn’t demonstrate strategic merit.
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