Anything along the coast of the Perth metropolitan area...
old thread: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=366751
old thread: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=366751
It was in Saturday's paper...^^
When is that dated?
The renders look very much different from the one's I have.
Battle looms over 192 seaside apartments
4th April 2008, 6:45 WST
Plans to build a 12-storey, resortstyle luxury apartment complex on a former industrial site in Mosman Park have outraged nearby residents.
Developer SAS Global Mosman wants to build the sprawling glass and concrete complex on the 3.1ha former OneSteel warehouse site on the corner of Stirling Highway and McCabe Street. But neighbouring residents say it is ugly, too large and out of context with surroundings.
The development includes 192 executive apartments in the tower block and a separate commercial and office block on the Stirling Highway front of the $61million block overlooking Rocky Bay and the Indian Ocean.
Mosman Park resident Colin Percival said residents wanted a development on the site but a 50m building towering over their homes was unreasonable.
“It will dominate the skyline and block the natural vistas of the horizon both from Buckland Hill and from the Mt Lyall Park Seven Sisters Hill public lookout, a site special to the original Nyoongar people and the present day general public,” he said.
Mr Percival said surrounding homes were zoned at densities which allowed between 15 and 30 dwellings per hectare but the SAS Global proposal was for more than five times the normal density.
“Imagine you are the property owner who in good faith bought the house abutting the closest point of the high rise to the common boundary and you suddenly have a 50m structure towering over your backyard and your property has dropped in value by 40 per cent?” Mr Percival said.
SAS Global managing director Anthony Beamish said the development would provide a “landmark entry statement” for the Fremantle area and high-quality housing.
“The inclusion of the proposed height enables a significant portion of the site (80 per cent) to be set aside for open space, reducing the ‘bulk’ of development of the site,” he said.
The land falls within the City of Fremantle but borders the Town of Mosman Park.
Mosman Park chief executive Paul Anderson said a public meeting would be held on April 9 to gauge public feedback but the council had already heard from residents angry about the development. He said there were no zonings within Mosman Park which would allow a development of that density.
Fremantle councillor Jon Strachan said it was disappointing the developer had chosen to advertise the plan before the city had completed a height study for the area, which was already under way.
DANIEL HATCH
That is just unbelievable. Especially coming from Lotterywest.Last year the Cottesloe council and Lotterywest chipped in $170,000 to save the pylon, which had become unsafe for swimmers.