First look: Lindsay Bennelong file Maroubra apartment plans
The busy developer Lindsay Bennelong is continuing to pad out its multi-residential property portfolio.
Off the back of two contrasting applications in 2022, one for a $150 million project in Crows Nest and another for a boutique project on Manly Beach, Lindsay Bennelong, headed by Clarendon Homes Founder Peter Campbell, is heading to the Eastern Suburbs.
They've filed for a mixed-use project at 138 Maroubra Road, just behind the Pacific Fair Shopping Centre and next door to the Maroubra Police Station.
The company secured the 1,512 sqm site during their busy 2022. They'll be demolishing the current office building and replacing it with a nine-level building, which will offer a mix of retail, commercial, and residential.
There will be 57 apartments on offer, a mix of one, two, three and four-bedroom units. The plans are for two retail spaces on the ground level, and a first level commercial office space, which will be flanked by a landscaped outdoor space.
There will be 23 one-bedroom apartments, which range in size from 51 sqm to 62 sqm, 12 two-bed units, which start from 86 sqm and top out at 99 sqm, and large three-bedroom apartments, the smallest 105 sqm and the largest 149 sqm.
There is a sole four-bedroom apartment, which has over 150 sqm of living space.
There are a number of outdoor breakout spaces for residents. Level two will feature an outdoor kids play space, an outdoor gym, and built-in seating around turfed areas.
Level eight will home two outdoor spaces, the largest at the southern end of the building which will have an outdoor barbecue and kitchen area and communal dining space, as well as community garden planters.
The northern outdoor area will have the same facilities, just across a slightly smaller footprint.
DJRD Architects designed the building. Co-owner and director Andrew Hipwell signed off on the design statement, noting that the design intent is to respond positively to the scale and massing of the existing adjacent buildings.
"The proposed project seeks some subtle variety by utilising brick and sheet cladding as a point of difference in texture and colour," the report submitted to the Randwick City Council noted.
"The Ground and Level 1 component will be subtly expressed as a podium with an alternate expression for the residential use above.
"The façade is designed to have “bays” defined by columns and piers that come to ground. The retail frontage is frameless glass for maximum exposure to the street."
The report noted that the structure will be primarily concrete column and slab, with non-loadbearing party walls which would allow apartment amalgamations down the track without any structural implication.
"This feature will permit multiple future configurations of bedroom, bedroom/office, bedroom/living."
Lindsay Bennelong was established in 2007 by the respected property identity Peter Campbell.
They currently have projects in Bondi Junction (Whitton Lane) and Crows Nest (Delano). Last year they submitted plans for five beachside apartments on Manly's dress circle North Steyne.
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Fast Facts
- Address: 138 Maroubra Road, Maroubra
- Land size: 1,512 sqm
- Ground level retail 1 - 326.7 sqm
- Ground level retail 2 - 425.3 sqm
- Level one commercial space - 849.5 sqm
- three apartments on this level.
- 23 x one-bedroom apartments
- 12 x two-bedroom apartments
- 21 x three-bedroom apartments
- 1 x four-bedroom apartments
