WA Car Park to Shoptop Apartments Plan Approved

Plans for a 135-apartment shoptop development have been greenlit for a shopping centre north of Perth.

Singaporean company Tah Land, owner of the Kingsway City Shopping Centre at 168 Wanneroo Road, Madeley, 20km north of the Perth CBD, filed the application for the project in June this year.

It has now been approved by the Metro Outer Development Assessment Panel.

The $33-million project comprises an eight-storey building with six ground-floor restaurant and cafe tenancies on what is currently a car park at the centre, topped by seven floors of serviced apartments.

The plans also include a lobby, gym, meeting rooms and laundry areas. 

Apartments will range in size from studio to two bedrooms.

Architects DKO Architecture and planners Urbis worked on the application filed with the City of Wanneroo Council. 

The short-stay accommodation increases the “diversity of offering to the local and visiting community,” according to the development application.

It is also a strategic opportunity to leverage the area’s existing amenities, and addresses an “existing gap in the market” for additional accommodation options. 

The City of Wanneroo has been identified as “a key residential growth area” within the North-West sub-region of Perth, and “the provision of mixed-use development within this area will assist with local employment and the provision of commercial services, supporting tourism and hospitality,” the application said.

Tah Land opened the shopping centre in 1996. Subsequent additions and upgrades include a new Aldi supermarket that opened in 2021, and expanded food and beverage outlets the following year.

The development of residential components for existing retail centre sites is on the rise—recent examples include the $320-million residential revamp of Eastwood Shopping Centre in Sydney, Holdmark’s 500-unit plans for its Canterbury-Bankstown site, and a Canberra shopping centre owner’s 156-apartment project.