According to the documents on exhibition Kaymet Pty Ltd is
seeking approval for the following key changes:
- increase the total maximum floor space ratio
from 2:1 to 2.31:1; - increase the total maximum gross floor area from
13,846m2 to 15,972.4m2, which includes 4,790m² to be affordable rental housing; - increase the number of units from 158 to 218;
- introduce non-residential uses to the Pitt Street frontage;
- increase the height of Buildings B and C from 4
storeys to 6 storeys; - modify the building appearance and facade
design; and - increase car parking from 138 to 171 spaces.
At community
consultations last year community people were told the developer planned for
the development to be managed as rental housing rather than units being sold.
The increase in
units and floor space is being driven by a move to include affordable housing
in the development which it is currently precluded from doing as the
development is on land that contains a heritage item as identified by the
Redfern Waterloo Authority and previously recognised by South Sydney Local
Environment Plan. Currently in the words of the application, “the existence of
an item of environmental heritage on site precludes application of the
incentives otherwise afforded to private developers for the provision of infill
affordable housing via application of the SEPP”. It is seeking to increase the
size of the development through applying the Affordable Housing SEPP provisions
even though it is a heritage site.
The affordable
housing proposed for the site is not in perpetuity, it is proposed to be the
same as the affordable Housing SEPP which provides a developer greater floor
space if it provides affordable housing for 10 years managed by a registered
affordable housing provider.
You can read
the documents and make a submission on the Department of Planning website at
either Modification to Adaptive reuse and residential
development or Modification to 09_0068 Residential and Public Open Space
Development before March 6 2017.
If you want to
read about the historical significance of the Rachel Hospital site have a read
of the proponent’s Heritage Impact Statement & Interpretation
Strategy.pdf (5.775 MB).