Top Spring Australia

Sydney-based integrated property group, Top Spring Australia, has received official approval&nbsp;for a&nbsp;masterplanned community in St Leonards, on Sydney’s upper North Shore.

The project will be known as The Newlands, across 1.26 hectares&nbsp;at 21-41 Canberra Avenue and 18-32 Holdsworth Avenue, and will see&nbsp;330&nbsp;new residences built across five buildings, one for each of the site’s five ‘superlots’.

The project is consistent with the Lane Cove Council’s St Leonards South Masterplan, gazetted in 2020, which allows for increased residential densities in the area south of the Pacific Highway and west of the North Shore rail line.

The project’s Bates Smart-designed scheme integrates with the topography of this part of St Leonards, and sees the five buildings graduated in height to allow for the site’s significant gradient, while also providing residents with outlooks over the adjacent Newlands Park.

The Newlands’ three parkland facing buildings will be eight, nine and ten storeys in height, with some storeys part levels, due to the site’s steep incline, while the two rear buildings will reach eight and eleven storeys in height.

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Residences will come in a range of configurations, including one, two and three-bedroom apartments, two-storey townhouses, as well as several penthouses, with all residences designed to maximise a combination of parkland views, natural light and ventilation.

The project will create a highly connected ground plane that includes a 6-metre-wide, east-west site link, connecting Holdsworth and Canberra Avenues, as well as to a proposal by council to extend the pocket park at the end of Holdsworth Avenue.

In addition to the pocket park, the proposal will deliver a central 2,500sqm green spine that celebrates the transition from St. Leonards’ urban centre along Berry Creek and down to Sydney Harbour’s shore. The green spine plays on the dense forest planting of the gullies along Berry Creek, giving The Newlands community an immersive landscape journey and a new type of backyard for apartment dwellers.

Meanwhile, rooftop terraces with large entertaining spaces and lushly landscaped frontages will grace all buildings.

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Sydney Ma, Managing Director of Top Spring Australia, confirmed his company’s exciting vision for the site.

“At Top Spring Australia we insist on enhancing the local environment of the areas in which we develop, and at The Newlands, we really want to improve the local community’s use of the site by providing access to enticing green spaces that can become an integral place for locals to gather, socialise, exercise and relax,”&nbsp;Ma said.

“Working closely with Lane Cove Council and our architects Bates Smart, we have envisioned a design that successfully negotiates the sloping site by ‘stepping’ the buildings down the hill so that everyone can benefit from the views of Newlands Park.

“Meanwhile, we have also included landscaped platforms that will enhance views towards and from the park, ensuring The Newlands really does have a feeling of being situated within its own private green space.”

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Launch of The Newlands through Colliers will be in mid-2022, with construction commencing in late 2022.

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“We have established a reputation founded on the creation of exceptional living spaces that combine the latest trends in art, architecture and design, and our plans for The Newlands are certainly no different,” Ma added.

“We are working with some of Australia’s best designers to create homes that speak to the bushland quality of the surrounding area, with material palettes utilising a natural, robust and earthy selection of materials and finishes.

“Health and wellbeing is also a strong consideration, with the scheme designed to maximise the number of dwellings that are naturally cross-ventilated, while more than 7 in 10 dwellings will have more than one aspect.

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The project will see 330 new residences built across five buildings, one for each of the site’s five ‘superlots’.



Joel Robinson

Top Spring secure The Newlands, St Leonards masterplan approval

The&nbsp;integrated property group, Top Spring Australia, has spent $94 million buying the Double Bay Plaza, with plans to go through with the approved mixed-use development by Luigi Rosselli Architects.

That will see 18 large apartments sit across a five level building, above four large format ground floor commercial and retail spaces at&nbsp;19-27 Cross Street, or the corner of&nbsp;Cross Street and Transvaal Avenue, the suburb’s most exclusive shopping enclave.

The 1,334 sqm site&nbsp;is&nbsp;directly adjacent the InterContinental Sydney Double Bay.

The plan also includes a north-facing plaza to connect potential food and beverage operators with the existing dining spaces in the unique heritage conservation area along Transvaal Avenue.

Top Spring Australia's Managing Director, Sydney Ma, said the company aims to cement its reputation for delivering high-end residential living with the Double Bay project.

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“In line with our premium project at Elizabeth Bay, Munro House, this project will encapsulate all the hallmarks that Top Spring Australia is known for, including new technology, art, green spaces and contemporary design,”&nbsp;Ma said.

“As with all our projects, we’ll be appointing a leading team of consultants, including interior and landscape architects, stylists, as well as a renowned artist to inform the public art strategy, to ensure the project’s luxury potential is fully realised.

“Given the generous size of the residences, with the largest being 283sqm, the harbour views available from the second level upwards, and the unrivalled location in one of eastern Sydney’s most prized and exclusive suburbs, this project will reset the already high bar for prestige projects in the Eastern Suburbs.

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“We expect the residences will be of immense appeal to affluent Eastern Suburbs clientele who are wanting to live in the heart of Double Bay, with everything they need on their doorstep.

“Sites of this calibre are really rare, so it’s incredibly exciting to add it to our growing portfolio. “The success of our Munro House project, which recently generated over $70M in sales in just two months, has reinforced our strategy to invest in high-end projects in prized suburbs such as this. There’s clearly market interest in prestigious projects, despite the pandemic,” Ma added.

Construction is expected to commence once the sale, which was brokered by 1st&nbsp;City Real Estate Group’s Managing Director, Brad Caldwell-Eyles, settles.

Top Spring are currently developing Munro House, a boutique apartment development in Elizabeth Bay.

There will be 18 large apartments, including three penthouses, created across the mixed-use precinct


Top Spring secure $94 million Double Bay apartment development site

St Leonards is set for a new mega-development, with the integrated property group&nbsp;Top Spring Australia lodging plans for 329 residences as part of a 1.26 hectare masterplanned community.

The site,&nbsp;at 21-41 Canberra Avenue and 18-32 Holdsworth Avenue, will see the apartments built across five buildings, three fronting Canberra Avenue and Newlands Park, and the other two buildings with a frontage to Holdsworth Avenue.

The three buildings facing the parkland will be eight, nine and 10 storeys in height (some storeys will be part levels due to the site&rsquo;s incline), while the two rear buildings will be eight and 11 storeys.

The Bates Smart-designed buildings will include a mix of one, two and three-bedroom apartments, two-storey townhouses, as well as several penthouses. They have been designed to be stepped in height, to maximise views of the surrounding green spaces.

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The plan provides public access to Newlands Park from Holdsworth Avenue via a six-metre-wide site link, as well as a 2,500 sqm communal garden at the centre of the project for a mix of public, private and communal uses.

The end of Holdsworth Avenue is to be closed by Council and turned into a pocket park. Three of the buildings will feature communal rooftop terraces providing sunny outdoor spaces, and all buildings will have landscaped setbacks from all street frontages.

Sydney Ma, Director and General Manager of Top Spring Australia, says the building forms step back and down the hillside revealing a series of stepped terraces, apartments and landscaped platforms towards Newlands Park.

&ldquo;With this project, we will be consistent with our vision to develop properties that incorporate the character of the local area by not only reflecting, but also enhancing, their local environment.

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&ldquo;Here, we want to create an ecologically responsible, vibrant new community, nestled within lushly planted corridors, edges and setbacks, to further enhance not just Newlands Park, which the project faces, but also the other existing green spaces in the St Leonards area.

&ldquo;Inspired by the local Cammeraygal creek corridors, our fa&ccedil;ade approach interprets the contrasting conditions of the rocky fern gullies and vertical eucalypt forest. This is achieved with the bases of the buildings having a heavily planted sandstone plinth, above which vertical fa&ccedil;ade columns contrast with floating horizontal edge beams.

&ldquo;The buildings will sit comfortably within the urban environment of St Leonards, as well as the bushland quality of the surrounding area, with the material palette using a natural, robust, earthy selection of materials and finishes.

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&ldquo;We have worked long and hard on this design and look forward to working with the Lane Cove Council to bring it to life.&rdquo;

About Top Spring Australia

Launched in Hong Kong in 1993, Top Spring International is a globally-renowned integrated property group, with specialties in residential and commercial development, asset management, fund management and education.

To date, the company has completed more than 20 completed projects in 12 cities around the world.

Top Spring Australia is a division of Top Spring International, established in 2017 with the goal of redefining urban living in Australia.

The Bates Smart-designed buildings will include a mix of one, two and three-bedroom apartments, two-storey townhouses, as well as several penthouses

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