Meriton Plots $255m Next Stage of Zetland Precinct

Harry Triguboff’s development group Meriton has filed plans for the next stage of its Zetland masterplan after securing planning changes last year. 

Changes to the Sydney Local Environmental Plan and a concept DA were approved last year allowing the prolific developer to increase the maximum building height control at its site at 118-130 Epsom Road and 905 South Dowling Street, about 7km south of the Sydney CBD.

The current development application marks North-East stage 1 of the detailed DA and has now submitted to the City of Sydney Council. 

Meriton has proposed a mixed-use development of 302 apartments, as well as a supermarket and childcare centre, with an estimated cost of $221.5 million.

The project, designed by Mako Architecture, would deliver 28 low-density terraced houses of three storeys and five different typologies. 

A midrise tower of eight storeys would provide 72 apartments in a mix of one, two andthree bedrooms, as well as a rooftop communal space. 

The highrise tower is 26 storeys and would house a ground-floor supermarket with a 125-place childcare centre on the second floor. 

The tower will also comprise 230 apartments—31 one, 152 two and 47 three bedrooms.

▲ The proposal comprises 302 apartments and 28 terraces.

The current DA from Meriton vehicle Karimbla Properties (No. 60) Pty Ltd is the first of three stages of development on the site, known as the North-East Stage 1. 

Stage 2 South would develop the south site of the block, which concept DAs, approved last year, earmarked for a residential GFA of 21,900sq m and non-residential GFA of 1,373sq m. Stage 3 North-West would deliver new parks and a permitted residential GFA of 24,693 square metres.

According to the earlier proposals, Meriton could achieve a GFA of 89,924sq m with 784 apartments in the wider masterplanned community.

The Zetland suburb of Epsom Park is going through a transition, the development application from Planning Ingenuity said, “whereby ageing built forms are interspersed with more recently constructed higher-density developments”. 

Several buildings throughout the locality were “reaching the end of their economic life” and were earmarked for replacement, it said.

The site is 1.3km from the Green Square Railway Station, which provides access to the CBD, airport, surrounding and wider suburbs. 

Meriton is not alone in its interest in Zetland—this year Deicorp submitted plans for 574 apartments at 130 Joynton Avenue, a site that it acquired for $180 million in 2022.