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\u25b2 A Habitation Design + Interiors rendering of the May Street scheme of boarding rooms and apartments above ground-floor vehicle sales.<\/p>\nAn automotive site near Sydney Park could make way for a mixed-use housing project after plans for the St Peters property were recast from co-living to boarding rooms and apartments.<\/p>\n
The application for 58-66 May Street and 35-37 Hutchinson Street, about 10km south of Sydney\u2019s CBD, would replace a smash-repair, printing business and terrace-house buildings.<\/p>\n
Current Inner West Council records describe a part-four, part-six-storey building with ground-floor vehicle sales and commercial premises, 47 boarding-house rooms, seven apartments and basement parking.<\/p>\n
Earlier material filed by Magliveras Investments proposed a 60-room boarding house, manager\u2019s room, 846sq m vehicle-sales showroom, 517sq m of commercial suites and spaces for 30 cars, three motorcycles and 35 bicycles.<\/p>\n
Quantity surveyor RIC-QS put the earlier scheme at $12.4 million, excluding remediation, rock excavation, shoring, escalation, contributions and commercial fitout beyond a cold shell.<\/p>\n
Habitation Design + Interiors is the architectural firm and Joseph Panetta listed as nominated architect.<\/p>\n
St Peters is about 10km south of Sydney\u2019s CBD, near Sydney Park, St Peters station and the WestConnex interchange. The subject site is opposite Camdenville Oval.<\/p>\n
\u25b2 A Habitation Design + Interiors rendering of the May Street scheme of boarding rooms and apartments above ground-floor vehicle sales.<\/p>\n
Its planning path is more complicated than a standard apartment application.<\/p>\n
Planning documents said the earlier co-living scheme was revised to a boarding-house model under NSW housing incentives, changing the bonus available for height and floor space.<\/p>\n
Co-living attracted a 10 per cent height and floor-space bonus, while the boarding-house pathway attracted 30 per cent, according to the documents.<\/p>\n
The land sits in an employment zone aimed at business, light industry, warehouses and offices, rather than conventional apartment development.<\/p>\n
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\u25b2 The existing May Street frontage of the St Peters site, opposite Camdenville Oval.<\/p>\n
But May Street is within an Inner West planning area allowing residential accommodation above business uses, giving the applicant a pathway to provide commercial activity at street level and add affordable rental rooms above.<\/p>\n
Andrew Martin Planning said offers were made for neighbouring 68 May Street and 41 Hutchinson Street, but the owners declined.<\/p>\n
It argued the remaining sites could still amalgamate with land further west.<\/p>\n
Historic aerial photos showed buildings on the lots as early as 1943, when brickmaking and landfill operations were active nearby and rail lines ran north of May Street.<\/p>\n
By 1994, the brickmaking and landfill operation east of the site had been decommissioned, backfilled and converted into public open space.<\/p>\n
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\u25b2 A rendering of the Hutchinson Street frontage, where commercial space would be below housing.<\/p>\n
A preliminary site investigation found no significant visible surface contamination during inspection, but assessed moderate potential for contamination from historic smash-repair use and possible off-site impacts from the former St Peters Interchange landfill.<\/p>\n
NEO Consulting said the site could be made suitable if a detailed site investigation and unexpected-finds protocol were undertaken.<\/p>\n