High-profile developer Billbergia is planning a major precinct at Chatswood on Sydney’s Lower North Shore, with apartments above a two-storey commercial podium.
The Sydney-based developer picked up the site, its first in Chatswood, 18 months ago at 8 Wilson Street, at the northern tip of the suburb’s centre.
It is drawing up plans with PBD Architects before filing with the Willoughby City Council.
The proposed development comprises 552 apartments across two mixed-use residential towers of 56 and 60 storeys above a two-storey commercial podium.
The podium includes retail space, commercial showrooms and an on-site childcare centre.
The plans also include a pool, private rooftop spaces and a through-site pedestrian link.
Billbergia development director planning and design Saul Moran says the project will resonate with the North Shore market.
“It will embody our long-standing focus on quality and liveability, while delivering a new transport-oriented community in Sydney’s north,” Moran says.
“This project will deliver critically needed new housing along with next-generation commercial spaces.”
PBD Architects managing director Paul Buljevic says solar photovoltaic panels, rainwater harvesting and thermal buffers were part of the design.
“The criteria for the project’s design competition placed a strong emphasis on sustainability,” Buljevic says.
Completion of the Chatswood towers is anticipated in 2031.
It has been quite a month for Billbergia—The Urban Developer reported this week that it had filed plans for its Rhodes East precinct at 25-27 Leeds Street, comprising six buildings.
In July, The Urban Developer reported changes in planning had lead to a slew of projects put up for the Lower North Shore suburb.
The pace has hardly slackened for the suburb 10km north of the Sydney CBD since.
In August, prominent developers the Vakili family filed plans for mixed-use towers with the Willoughby City Council for the evolving Chatswood CBD.
Harry and Jilla Vakili’s plans comprise 27-storey and 18-storey towers over a shared podium for the project, dubbed the Aeon, at 3 McIntosh, 2 Day and 40-42 Anderson streets on Sydney’s Lower North Shore.
Also that month, it was reported Novus was pushing ahead with plans for a 32-storey mixed-use development at the corner the Pacific Highway and Albert Avenue.
The Novus on Albert proposal would comprise 220 build-to-rent apartments above ground-floor retail, two basement carparking levels and communal amenities on level 2 and 29.
Last month, plans were lodged for a 27-storey residential building at 691-699 Pacific Highway by a vehicle of Sydney development company Develotek.
Those plans would deliver 100 apartments—14 one-bedroom, 66 two-bedroom and 20 three-bedroom apartments, with a total of 10850sq m and a typical floor plate size under 450 square metres.
And the news broke this month that retail property giant Vicinity Centres had snapped up the remaining half of Sydney mall Chatswood Chase in a $307-million deal.
