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\u25b2 The two houses on the 2036sq m Glenfield site, outlined in yellow, would make way for the six-storey mixed-use project.<\/p>\nSix affordable apartments would sit above 111 co-living rooms in a single six-storey project in south-west Sydney.<\/p>\n
Designed by Texco for ZR Investments, the building would replace two Glenfield houses at 37-39 Trafalgar Street, about 500m walking distance from the Glenfield Station.<\/p>\n
Co-living accommodation would occupy levels one to four, with each of the 111 rooms providing a private bathroom, kitchen and laundry.<\/p>\n
Every room could accommodate two lodgers, giving the component capacity for as many as 222 people.<\/p>\n
Level five would contain the project\u2019s only affordable housing\u2014six conventional apartments comprising two studios, two one-bedroom and two two-bedroom homes.<\/p>\n
Those apartments would remain affordable and under the management of a registered community housing provider for at least 15 years from the occupation certificate.<\/p>\n
The co-living rooms are a separate housing component and are not identified as affordable.<\/p>\n
A neighbourhood shop spanning almost 100sq m and 246sq m of communal living and co-working space would occupy the ground floor.<\/p>\n
ZR Investments\u2019 proposal combines three NSW Housing SEPP provisions to extract almost every available centimetre from the 2036sq m site.<\/p>\n
The state\u2019s Low and Mid-Rise Reforms lift its maximum height from 11m to 17.5m and floor-space ratio from 1.3:1 to 1.5:1.<\/p>\n
Allocating 10 per cent of total gross floor area to affordable housing generates a further 20 per cent height and floor-space bonus under the applicant\u2019s calculations.<\/p>\n
\u25b2 The two houses on the 2036sq m Glenfield site, outlined in yellow, would make way for the six-storey mixed-use project.<\/p>\n
Co-living provisions add another 10 per cent to floor space, taking the claimed limits to 21m and 1.95:1.<\/p>\n
Combined, those controls allow 3970.2sq m of gross floor area.<\/p>\n
Plans provide 3969.9sq m\u2014just 0.3sq m shy of the ceiling.<\/p>\n
Fourteen of the project\u2019s 19 car spaces would serve co-living residents, including two resident-only car-share bays.<\/p>\n
Planning documents calculate a 22-space benchmark for this component but rely on nearby public transport, car sharing and 40 bicycle spaces to support the shortfall.<\/p>\n
Campbelltown Council records show Trafalgar Street was once known locally as Railway Avenue.<\/p>\n
Developers renamed it during Glenfield\u2019s mid-century expansion, but rail proximity is again driving density along the street, within a precinct rezoned in 2021 for as many as 7000 homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six affordable apartments would sit above 111 co-living rooms in a single six-storey project in south-west Sydney. Designed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34197,5932,855,355,1408,857,33668,1093,3035,1002,5461,247,265,860],"class_list":["post-64617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sydney","tag-co-living","tag-co-working","tag-development-applications","tag-new-south-wales","tag-parking","tag-planning-approvals","tag-planning-reform","tag-public-transport","tag-real-estate","tag-retail","tag-social-affordable-housing","tag-sydney","tag-western-sydney","tag-zoning-density"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64617","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=64617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}