{"id":59835,"date":"2026-07-28T04:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/59835\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T04:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:48:09","slug":"office-to-student-living-proposal-on-melbournes-la-trobe-street-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/59835\/","title":{"rendered":"Office-to-Student Living Proposal on Melbourne\u2019s La Trobe Street Decided"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brarz\u2019s plans to rework its Melbourne office plans into student accommodation have been approved.<\/p>\n

The Melbourne developer filed amended plans earlier this year <\/a>for its approved 42-level highrise on 54-66 La Trobe Street in the Melbourne CBD.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An existing permit for the site, granted in 2024, allowed a mixed-use tower of offices and a 160-room hotel with 61 rooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Brarz went back to the drawing board soon after the approval, convertiung the project into a 719-room student accommodation building of 876 beds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rooms range from 14 to 31 sq m for singles and double rooms, and will be in twin room and six-bed configurations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amenities include kitchens, lounge and communal dining rooms, music and study rooms, and a cinema, plus terraces and parking for 305 bicycles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The student accommodation rework fits with surrounding uses that includ a three-storey karaoke bar and a 44-storey Scape PBSA tower.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Brarz\u25b2 A rendering of the PBSA scheme approved for the LaTrobe Street site.<\/p>\n

The 1160sq m site is near Carlton Gardens, and Melbourne universities including RMIT.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Plans by Urbis for the site, which is on the northern edge of Melbourne CBD, were designed by Bates Smart.<\/p>\n

Developer Brarz Developments City Pty Ltd, part of the House of Brar investment group, is led by director Sarbjit Brar. Founded in 2004, it holds a real estate portfolio valued at $850 million.<\/p>\n

The project is the latest in a number of approved office-to-housing conversions rising across the country.<\/p>\n

Listed Singaporean developer Wee Hur filed revised plans earlier this year <\/a>for a 12,200sq m in Brisbane\u2019s Woolloongabba precinct, converting it into two towers of 300 affordable homes, while Thirdi scrapped its Crows Nest over-station office<\/a> proposal in Sydney, replacing it with 474 build-to-sell and build-to-rent apartments. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brarz\u2019s plans to rework its Melbourne office plans into student accommodation have been approved. The Melbourne developer filed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,7065,260,857,7902,12799,68],"class_list":["post-59835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-australia","tag-cbd","tag-melbourne","tag-planning-approvals","tag-project-update","tag-student-accommodation","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59835","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=59835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}