New push to transform Lockleys site into four-storey housing

Improvement consultants Future City, on behalf of Pierson Pty Ltd, have initiated a second planning code modification on the plot of land at 25 Pierson Road in Lockleys.

The 4.87-hectare website, positioned inside 10km of the CBD and adjoining to the River Torrens Linear Park, holds a Westpac mortgage centre and automotive park.

The Maras Group owns the land. It’s presently zoned for employment relatively than residential use.

Idea plans lodged as a part of the code modification suggest most two storey housing on the jap, western and southern components of the positioning, matching the encompassing low-rise housing in Lockleys.

Idea plans for the proposed code modification, with the blue representing two-storey housing and the orange 4 storey. Picture: PlanSA/Future City

Housing with a most of four-storeys is proposed within the centre and dealing with the River Torrens Linear Park on the positioning’s northern boundary.

Future City managing director Chris Vounasis advised InDaily the rezoning would facilitate each medium and low-density housing.

“It’s an infill website that’s successfully a industrial island in amongst residential,” he mentioned.

“The rezoning replaces a industrial use with a residential use that’s very delicate to its fast neighbours.”

The location at Lockleys presently options a parking lot and a Westpac department. Picture: InDaily

A requirement for 15 per cent of recent dwellings on the positioning to be reasonably priced housing can also be proposed within the code modification.

The most recent rezoning bid comes after Planning Minister Nick Champion in December 2022 rejected an earlier bid from the identical developer to rezone the positioning for housing as much as six-storeys.

Champion on the time cited group issues about peak as one of many causes for his determination.

“While I acknowledge the worth of the land as a strategic infill website, I word the numerous issues of the group relating to the proposal and the amenity impacts such larger density improvement would have in a low-rise, mid-block location similar to this,” Champion wrote on December 15, 2022.

The northern finish of the Westpac constructing at Lockleys. Picture: InDaily

Champion urged on the time he could be open to a revised rezoning proposal if it was “extra in line with the established character” of the realm.

Vounasis mentioned the brand new four-storey proposal was a “real try” to answer the issues of the Planning Minister and residents.

“The unique code modification was put ahead on the premise that the positioning may accommodate that peak (six storeys) appropriately alongside the Torrens and centrally positioned,” he mentioned.

“The intent right here remains to be the identical – it’s simply 4 storeys.”

Vounasis mentioned the rezoning and subsequent improvement would generate much less visitors than the land’s present use, and likewise present “inexperienced linkages” to the adjoining River Torrens park.

“We imagine general it’s being very delicate to its fast surrounds,” he mentioned.

However close by residents say they’re nonetheless involved about permitting 4 storeys of their locality.

Lynton Pearce – who lives adjoining to the positioning and is a member of the “Say No – Pierson Road Lockleys Improvement” Fb group, which has 324 members – mentioned he didn’t assist the revised four-storey proposal.

Pearce mentioned there have been “extra acceptable locations for this high-density dwelling to be put in place”.

An aerial view of the 4.87 parcel of land. Picture: Future City

“This suburb is low density proper the way in which by – can we begin eliminating all of our low-density areas?” he mentioned.

Pearce mentioned residents had been involved about having two-storey housing adjoining their properties and four-storey buildings close to the character path.

“If I had the cash, would I not need to stay with a north-facing facet into the character strip – yeah, why not,” he mentioned.

“However the level is different folks additionally need to get pleasure from that facet. They need to go and return to nature, strolling their canine, using their bike and so forth.

“They don’t need to be strolling alongside and occur to have these huge buildings – metropolis – shoved proper of their face as they stroll alongside it.”

Public session on the code modification ends on December 17.

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