City apartment tower gets planning approval
A 15-storey apartment building in Adelaide’s West End has been granted planning approval, with a heritage-listed office building to be retained in the development.
Plans to develop 262-268 Waymouth Street into a 52-metre-tall apartment building have been approved by the State Commission Assessment Panel.
Norwood-based architects SMFA, on behalf of an unnamed private developer, lodged plans in May to build a 15-storey apartment building featuring 44 new homes along with a café and restaurant.
The site, on the corner of Waymouth and Gray Street, is currently occupied by a small local heritage-listed office building and other home and office structures.
The local heritage-listed building will be retained as part of the development, SMFA said, while the other structures will be demolished.
The local heritage-listed office building at 268 Waymouth Street. The building will be retained as part of the development, according to the architects. Photo: Tony Lewis/InDaily
While the tower has received planning consent, it still requires development approval from the City of Adelaide and building consent.
Speaking to InDaily in June, SFMA director Scott Meet said the 44 units would offer “lower cost” housing, while the small café was planned to occupy the ground floor. There will also be space on the first floor for a “decent-sized little restaurant”.
The developer acquired the site for more than $2.1 million in early 2023, according to property records on realestate.com.au.
The development proposal is about 170-metres from West Terrace and located within a precinct expected to soak up a lot of development activity over the next decade.
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A ground-level view of the proposed development. Image: MF Studios, SMFA/supplied
SMFA’s development proposal is also located between two existing high-rise student accommodation blocks: the 17-storey, 59.5-metre-tall Atira on Waymouth Street – opposite the Grace Emily Hotel – and the equally sized UniLodge on Gray Street.
“It’s good because you can sort of maximise your height down there and maximise the site potentials,” Meek told InDaily.
“There just a lot of stock down there ready for development, so I think the West End is sort of ready for that sort of scale and a bit more action that comes to apartment stock.”