Coast Little Bay - 11 Jennifer Street, Little Bay

East Village - 246 East Boundary Road, Bentleigh East

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	<li>Construction of two separate residential buildings, one 3 x 3 storey and the other 4 storeys tall.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>The buildings will contain a total of 76 apartments with 10 single bedrooms, 38 double bedrooms and 28 triple bedrooms.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Each apartment features an open plan kitchen/living/dining area adjoining private open space as well as a main bathroom; larger apartments also include an ensuite.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Access to the building is provided via lift or stairs while metal roof sheeting, balustrade &amp; cladding, solid masonry cladding &amp; wall tiles are used for its construction.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Car parking facilities have been included for 117 vehicles including 16 accessible spaces while 7940sq m landscaping has been planned around the development site.</li>
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<ul><li>Construction of two separate residential buildings, one 3 x 3 storey and the other 4 storeys tall. </li>
	<li>The buildings will contain a total of 76 apartments with 10 single bedrooms, 38 double bedrooms and 28 triple bedrooms. </li>
	<li>Each apartment features an open plan kitchen/living/dining area adjoining private open space as well as a main bathroom; larger apartments also include an ensuite. </li>
	<li>Access to the building is provided via lift or stairs while metal roof sheeting, balustrade &amp; cladding, solid masonry cladding &amp; wall tiles are used for its construction. </li>
	<li>Car parking facilities have been included for 117 vehicles including 16 accessible spaces while 7940sq m landscaping has been planned around the development site.</li>
</ul>

Stage 2 - 11 Jennifer Street, Little Bay

Prominent Sydney developer Urban Property Group have lodged a new development application for their coastal Little Bay apartment project.

After securing court approval for a concept development application at their 11,612 sqm Jennifer Street block, they've now recently filed the detailed development application to Randwick City Council that comprises of 76 apartments designed by Hill Thalis Architecture at 11 Jennifer Street.

The proposal adopts the courtyard apartment type, which Hill Thalis founding principal Philip Thalis says is puzzlingly rare in Australian cities, despite its suitability to the climate and long architectural traditions of sociability.

The proposal adopts the courtyard apartment type, which Hill Thalis founding principal Philip Thalis says is puzzlingly rare in Australian cities, despite its suitability to the climate and long architectural traditions of sociability.

"The courtyard garden type has antecedents in many urban cultures around the world," Hill Thalis noted in the design statement submitted to the council.

"As is the case in many examples of this type, the courtyards organise the primary access and address to the various cores, and they are planted with endemic species and dotted with seats.

"The entry (northern) courtyard has framed vistas open to the landscape on the east side, and back to Reservoir Street to the west. The southern courtyard opens to the ESBS."

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The proposal is for 76 dwellings in three separate buildings that frame two substantial landscape courtyards. While the pair of northern buildings that front Crown Road are linear, the larger southern building has a U-shaped configuration.

The apartments are distributed over three and part four residential levels above a single level basement car park.

There will be 10 one-bedroom apartments, 38 two-bedders, and 28 three-bed units. 15 of the ground floor garden apartments have direct street or garden access and private gardens. The top floor apartments on both levels two and three have larger floorplans and have extensive terraces.

"The proposed development provides a mix of accommodation to support the needs of a future population, including families given the sizes and mix of apartments," Hill Thalis added.

Urban Property Group went through the Land and Environment Court to obtain approval for 38 apartments and 8 townhouses back in 2019, but have since been back and forth with design proposals for the site.

The Little Bay area on the eastern side of Anzac Parade has seen new urban precincts created over the last two decades, including the redevelopment of the former Prince Henry Hospital site and the early stages of Little Bay Cove to its immediate north.

The Little Bay project is part of UPG's continually growing development pipeline.

In the past month they've submitted applications in Penrith, and a townhouse and apartment project at Edmondson Park both close to train station infrastructure. Those two projects alone add a further 1,100 dwellings to UPG's pipeline.

<a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/nsw/exclusive-first-look-urban-property-group-prepare-over-1100-dwellings-in-penrith-and-edmondson-park-developments">Read more:&nbsp;Exclusive first look: Urban Property Group prepare over 1100 dwellings in Penrith and Edmondson Park developments</a>

The proposal adopts the courtyard apartment type, which Hill Thalis founding principal Philip Thalis says is puzzlingly rare in Australian cities


Joel Robinson

Exclusive first look: Urban Property Group reveal Little Bay apartments project

Assemble, the leading build-to-rent development and community management company, has taken a big step in its future $1.2 billion pipeline.

Headed by managing director Kris Daff, Assemble has secured rezoning of two key residential and mixed-use sites in Clayton and East Bentleigh.

It allows the affordability-conscious developer, who has been doing amazing things in the social housing&nbsp;space for a number of years, to realise over $900 million in affordable housing across the two sites, as well as&nbsp;$300 million of retail and workplace for the projects.

Victorian Planning Authority's Fast Track Projects program accelerated the rezoning of the prime industrial&nbsp;sites at 209-211 Carnish Road in Clayton&nbsp;and 246 East Boundary Road in East Bentleigh.

Daff said it was a strong move that ensures victorians will have the appropriate supply of social and affordable housing to meet the critical shortfall.

"We are now a step clooser to delivering over 1,600 social and affordable housing units, along with much needed health, commercial and retail outcomes, for the broad Glen Eira and Monash communities," Daff says.

The eight hectare Clayton site was the former PMP Print site, and is set to see 1,180 new homes create, as well as three new local parks, and a number of shops and businesses, focussed around a new town square. Around 1,000 local jobs will be created as part of the development.

There will be a 680-apartment development within the precinct, designed by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects, with landscaping by Rush Write. Around&nbsp;20 per cent will be delivered as social housing, managed by Assemble's community housing partner, Housing Choices Australia.

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The Carnish Road, Clayton design. Image supplied

Another 35 per cent of dwellings will be dedicated to affordable housing targeting essential workers, such as the local Monash health and education workers.

"This is a prime site that will revitalise the area set in a well-connected precinct, offering the community east access to key health, education and transport hubs," Daff says.

The $700 million multi-stage East Bentleigh project, dubbed East Village, will be a wider masterplanned community with&nbsp;3,000 dwellings, 15,000 sqm of retail floorspace and 80,000 sqm of commercial floorspace.

The&nbsp;build-to-rent community will have over 940 apartments of social and affordable housing.

"East Village will provide stable rental tenure for a diverse residential community&nbsp;including students, tertiary education workers and essential key workers in the local Glen Eira community", Daff added.

The $400 million first stage will see&nbsp;450 apartment built to a design&nbsp;by Hill Thalis, who were chosen by a design competition. MGS Architects and Craig Tan Architects will design the 16,000 sqm of mixed-use elements.

The project will create 5,000 construction jobs once works commence in late 2022. It will also home new McKinnon College Second Campus which is set to open January 2022.

The developments will&nbsp;accelerate the long-term rental housing pipeline for Assemble, who will see&nbsp;2,400 apartments of their portfolio under construction in the next six months.

Headed by managing director Kris Daff, Assemble has secured rezoning of two key residential and mixed-use sites in Clayton and East Bentleigh

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