Opinion: Why involve a prince if, like any rubbish developer, he’s just going to help the government break the rules? | emfarrelly
The proposal is this. Remove the Cowper Street site from the St Philips Conservation Area, rezone it, demolish the current two-storey public housing and build eight storeys instead. It’s hugely dense: at a floor space ratio of up to 4.3:1 it is as dense as Central Park. And of its 75 apartments, 39 will be private.
The NSW government will partner with Prince’s Trust Australia on a mixed tenure housing project in Glebe. Which brings us to the Meriton proposal for Little Bay. Little Bay was developed a decade back, you’ll recall, with an award-winning masterplan from Hill Thallis and McGregor Coxall and some surprisingly attractive apartments and town houses. People loved living there – sea, beaches, golf courses and a stylish, medium density urban village: what’s not to love? Then, three years ago, Meriton bought the undeveloped half of the site, and everything started to go pear-shaped.
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