City West Files Affordable Housing Project for Alexandria

City West Housing has filed a plans for an affordable housing project in one of Sydney’s most promiment developments precincts.

The 6708sq m site at 330-332 Botany Road is part of the Green Square Town Centre.

Green Square, 4km from the airport, is the focus of a major urban renewal project. 

City West’s plans for the site, which is residual land from the creation of the Ashmore Connector East Road, include 275 apartments across two buildings of nine and 11 storeys building with communal open space, basement level carparking and space for retail or commercial tenancies on the ground floor.

If approved, the development will offer a GFA of 25,270sq m with 23,467sq m of that set aside for affordable rental housing and 1599sq m for retail or commercial tenancies. 

The proposed nine-storey building on the southern boundary of the site  has a stepped design while the 11-storey building would front the eastern boundary.

City West Housing will undertake a design competition when and if the application is been approved. Once a design has been chosen, another more detailed development application will be submitted for planning approval.

▲ The Acacia Apartments will be part of the Green Square Town Centre, 4km from Sydney’s airport.

The project, Acacia Apartments, is expected to cost $119.6 million.

Other affordable housing projects within the Green Square Town Centre are in the works.

And while City West has approval for 64 apartments at the Banksia Apartments project at 74-88 Botany Road (part of the Botany Road Precinct), a new Stage 1 Development Application will be submitted to increase this to 100 apartments and to introduce a new concept with more public open space included.

The firm is also working on a concept design for its Bangalay Apartments at 216-220 Wyndham Road, a recent acquisition for the developer.

Other recent plans for Green Square include Woolworth’s development arm Fabcot proposing a mixed-use project in the area.