Sydney's LEP has been amended to make way for a slender new 30-storey tower in Haymarket

Sydney’s LEP has been amended to make way for a slender new 30-storey tower in Haymarket

Written by

Charbel Abousleiman

Urban Planning Lawyer & Buyers Agent

16/05/2023

The proponent’s vision includes the adaptive reuse of the former Sutton Forest Meat Company heritage item with retail and hotel amenities. Adjoining and connected to the heritage building is the ground-floor lobby for a new slender 30-storey tower, comprising mid-range hotel accommodation.

The revised planning controls for the site include:

increased height of building from 50-metres to RL 117.87-metres,
increased maximum floor space ratio to 11.1:1 above ground level, inclusive of any bonuses arising from design excellence,
additional floor space of up to 0.63:1 located below ground level for limited purposes to support the operation and viability of the above ground portion of the building, while ensuring that onsite servicing is not compromised, and
provisions to ensure the application of accommodation floor space.

This new framework will provide for additional employment generating floor space and a built form that sensitively reuses a heritage item consistent with the future character of the surrounding area and with acceptable outcomes and greater street activation, public domain improvements and pedestrian amenity.

Photomontage of the Haymarket tower

To ensure the amenity to the surrounding public domain and adjoining sites is not adversely impacted, the scheme includes minimum tower setbacks of 8-metres to Valentine Street, 6-metres to George Street and 3-metres to the western boundary.

Wind mitigation measures include retention of the existing awning of the heritage listed building and a ground floor chamfer and areas for further articulation within the tower to redirect adverse wind flows away from the public domain.

Located on 1030 square metres, the site is a ‘tower cluster’ site designated under the Central Sydney Planning Strategy. Expanded in 2016 and adopted by the City of Sydney in 2020, this strategy sets the planning vision for Central Sydney. It supports opportunities for additional height and density, where future development protects pedestrian amenity, contributes to the public domain and delivers environmentally sustainable initiatives.

Existing on the site consists two low-scale retail commercial buildings. The site fronts George Street to the east and Valentine Street to the south. To the west of the site is a medium scale commercial office building and a mid-sized residential apartment building to the north.

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