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The public is being invited to learn about a major new development for the city which would see more than 100 new homes fill an empty block close to the CBD.
A planning scheme amendment for the ‘Lansell Crest’ project is on public display while a community meeting is scheduled for next month.
Developer Damien Tangey said the proposal would provide a range of housing types and promote more intensive residential development close to Bendigo’s key activity centres and major transport corridors.
“The site has been fully remediated and this is a great example of how the reuse of an inner urban brownfields site can provide new housing stock and choice to the Bendigo community,” Mr Tangey said.
The Birchgrove Property managing director said the site was “shovel ready and has no constraints”.
The 2.6 hectare block on 39-51 Lansell Street – which extends back onto Lloyd Street – was formerly the Bendigo Abattoir and Country Roads Board, but all buildings have been demolished and the land decontaminated.
The Greater Bendigo Residential Strategy adopted in 2014 identifies the Lansell Street site as a ‘key development site’ for the city.
In July, the previous City of Greater Bendigo council voted to put a planning scheme amendment which would allow the project to go ahead on public display.
The current planning scheme restricts the number of houses which could be built on the site to 65.
But Lansell Crest development plans show 105 homes slated for construction – 25 of them two-bedroom dwellings, 44 three-bedroom terrace dwellings, 28 four-bed townhouses and seven five-bedroom townhouses.
Mr Tangey said it would address “significant gaps identified in the residential housing market”.
“More than 85 per cent of our current housing stock comprising conventional fully detached homes by comparison to more than 55 per cent of our existing households comprising of only one or two people,” he said.
“This proposal seeks to help fill that gap with the opportunity for appropriate, accessible, well designed good quality housing in affordable price ranges for the inner urban area to meet these needs.”
A community information day will be held on December 6 from 10am to 2pm and 4pm to 7pm at the East Bendigo Community Hall located at 35 Lansell Street East Bendigo.
The planning scheme amendment can be viewed through to December 19 at the City of Greater Bendigo’s planning department at 15 Hopetoun Street.