Bridgestone Goes Higher at Chatswood on Second Attempt

Plans have been filed for twin highrise towers on Sydney’s Lower North Shore proposing eight more storeys than a similar scheme rejected last year.

Bridgestone Projects wants to build the 33-storey towers at Chatswood near the suburb’s landmark Westfield retail centre.

A similar proposal was refused by the Sydney North Planning Panel in September of 2024 due to “excess carparking” in the basement, which was applied in the GFA total, according to the Mecone planning report. 

The new towers now filed with the NSW Planning Portal would replace two older, three-storey apartment buildings and townhouses on the 2687sq m site at 44-52 Anderson Street.

The Make and Turner-designed scheme includes a two-storey podium and two residential towers comprising 123 apartments over eight levels of basement with parking for 296 cars.

The rejected application proposed 96 apartments and 159 parking spaces filed by the Chatswood-based Bridgestone.

▲ Renders of the original plans (left) and the new scheme, both by Make and Turner. The new detailed design development was created by Turner Studio.

There is a communal space on level two as well as swimming pool, sauna, barbecue area and green spine between the towers, designed by Turf Design Studio, included in the plans.

A through-site link between Anderson Street and the pedestrian extension of Cambridge Lane is also proposed.

The state significant development application is on exhibition until February 27.

▲ Under the Chatswood CBD planning and urban design strategy 2026, the CBD boundary is to be expanded to the north and would include the Bridgestone site.

Meanwhile, also in Chatswood, Billbergia successfully appealed the rejection of its two-tower, 28-storey development on the Pacific Highway, which was filed in February of 2024 and launched in December.

And Willow Capital had similar issues with its 26-storey slender tower scheme, winning its appeal in May of last year in the NSW Land and Environment Court against the Willoughby City Council’s refusal.