Rhodes Place gets rezoning approval

Minister for Planning and Public Spaces Rob Stokes has advised the rezoning of Rhodes Place which will see 4,200 new homes. Residential apartment towers will be up to 45 stories.

It will come with around 2.3-hectares of open space.

It involves an upgrade to Rhodes Railway Station, along with a proposed ferry wharf.

There will be a site for a new public school.

Stokes said the finalisation of the Rhodes Place Strategy was a key project to help address the city’s housing needs.

Rhodes is an important Strategic Centre in the Eastern City District Plan, after the City of Canada Bay Council nominated Rhodes in 2015 as an area for potential renewal.

The Rhodes Place Strategy is a plan for the development of the Rhodes Precinct over the next 20 years. 

Excellence in design and sustainability, including dual reticulation for development, incentives to exceed BASIX targets and tree canopy targets were pinpointed in the draft place strategy exhibited for feedback between 31 August and 9 October 2020.

The Rhodes Place Strategy builds on earlier work for the 2018/2019 exhibition and 2017 exhibition.

The finalisation of the place strategy allows landowners to submit development applications (DAs) to Council to begin renewal of the precinct.