A large site in Adelaide\u2019s inner southwest has been rezoned, paving the way for taller housing developments of up to four storeys. <\/p>\n
The state government officially approved the Leader St Bakery code amendment at Forestville, proposed by the land owners Harmony Forestville nearly four years ago. <\/p>\n
A single-level building on the site is currently leased to Quality Bakers Australia \u2013 a subsidiary company of Goodman Fielder \u2013 who use it as a manufacturing facility and bakery. <\/p>\n
The 7700 sqm site fronting Leader St is now zoned for new buildings of up to four levels and 18.5m in height, instead of the current one-storey building limit.<\/p>\n
It is opposite the 3.6ha former Le Cornu site, where a $250m housing and food-focused retail development is taking place.<\/p>\n
The approval rezoned the site from an Established Neighbourhood Zone to an Urban Neighbourhood Zone, to encourage medium- to high-density residential dwelling redevelopments. <\/p>\n
Any development proposals above four storeys will be classified as \u2018restricted\u2019, making it harder for those redevelopment proposals to receive approval, the state government said.<\/p>\n
The site is located near shops, services and transport links including tramline network and the Flinders and Seaford Railway Lines, making it an attractive locations for future residential developments.<\/p>\n
The neighbourhood is described as a low-density residential zone, which encourages predominantly single-storey dwellings on land with a minium site area of 550 or 800 sqm. <\/p>\n
Harmony Forestville initially proposed a five-storey building limit, but this was changed after community protest.<\/p>\n
Planning Minister Nick Champion said the change struck the \u201cright balance\u201d between growth and community expectations. <\/p>\n
\u201c(It\u2019s) setting a benchmark for responsible development across South Australia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The site was acquired in September 2008 for $4.4m.<\/p>\n
It has been used for commercial purposes since the 1920s before bakery operations expanded across the whole lot by the mid-1960s. <\/p>\n
Bakery operations have now outgrown the available land area and the capacity of neighbouring public infrastructure. <\/p>\n
Planning documents state the industrial commercial bakery was no longer compatible with the established residential area.<\/p>\n
It has visible grain silo tanks, service infrastructure, numerous crossovers, roller doors, loading docks and large blank walls. <\/p>\n
Goodman Fielder – which employs more than 100 workers at the site – continues to operate and has an existing lease agreement for the short-medium term.<\/p>\n
To ensure the site was suitable for residential developments, Harmony Forestville consulted key stakeholders and carried out several targeted studies including traffic impact assessments, heritage and interface investigations.<\/p>\n
Key stakeholders including Adelaide Airport, the Department of Infrastructure and Transport, the Environment Protection Authority and SA Housing Authority were consulted by Harmony Forestville during the proposal process<\/p>\n
Public consultation ended on December 15, 2023 but was only implemented in the planning code this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large site in Adelaide\u2019s inner southwest has been rezoned, paving the way for taller housing developments of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[395,13255,23,13245,13250,12650,13243,13251,13260,13265,13258,13253,13263,13247,13256,13257,13262,13248,13246,13244,13264,13261,13254,2043,13252,13249,3988,13259],"class_list":["post-12523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adelaide","tag-adelaide","tag-approval-process","tag-australia","tag-bakery-operations","tag-blank-walls","tag-change-lead","tag-department-of-infrastructure-and-transport","tag-developement-proposals","tag-environemtn-protection-authority","tag-exisiting-lease-agreement","tag-goodman-fielder-ltd","tag-grain-silo-tanks","tag-interface-investigations","tag-land-area","tag-one-storey-building-limit","tag-proposal-process","tag-redevelopment-proposals","tag-residential-developments","tag-residential-dwelling-redevelopments","tag-roller-doors","tag-sa-housing-authority","tag-service-infrastructure","tag-sqm-site-fronting","tag-state-government","tag-traffic-impact-assessments","tag-tramline-network","tag-transport-links","tag-visible-grain-silo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}