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<p>Sydney-based developer Heworth has lodged amendments to its approved development application of the former Balmain Leagues Club.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The group has improved the original design scheme for what will be Rozelle Village, with changes to the retail plaza and apartment designs.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Set to enhance the local retail precinct and provide a new community hub, apartment numbers have been reduced from 167 to 146, with a change in apartment mix also, increasing the number of two and three-bedders to suit the current market.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="Render of the proposed Rozelle Place" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="1313b901-e402-4394-ac1f-e192c3287d46" src="https://s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/www.urban.com.au/s3fs-public/inline-images/SC_ROZELLE_VIEW01_Final_Rev02_Edit-1.0-.jpg?VersionId=_bJf1vsPMNi7JS2gV7eRn1CV1fCEFtrW" /><em>Render of the proposed Rozelle Place. Image supplied</em></p>

<p>Located on a prominent corner site, interjecting with Victoria Road, Darling and Waterloo Streets, the residences will be connected above a shared retail and commercial podium, which will include a new, state of the art, Wests Ashfield Leagues Club, which amalgamated with the former Balmain Tigers Leagues Club.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Rozelle Village’s retail precinct will also be anchored by a major supermarket, providing greatly increased convenience to the local area.</p>

<p>Heworth engaged architecture practice Scott Carver to improve the overall design scheme, with Head of Property Chris Walsh saying the amendments will benefit the local community, as well as its future residents.&nbsp;</p>

<p>“A key focus of our development is a new Town Square, public plaza and major retail and hospitality podium connected by a series of laneways. It’s going to significantly contribute to Rozelle and become a major community meeting place and destination,” Walsh said.</p>

<p>“We are also seeking to change the apartment mix, increasing the number of two and three bedroom apartments as we feel the larger size floor plates and premium interior architecture, fixtures and fittings, will appeal to discerning local owner-occupiers, particularly downsizers.”</p>

<p><img alt="Render of the proposed Rozelle Place" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="2522323d-1ff5-40f6-a39e-54649dea5dde" src="https://s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/www.urban.com.au/s3fs-public/inline-images/SC_ROZELLE_VIEW03_Final_Rev02_Edit-1.0-.jpg?VersionId=DkYx8wRZn6EsNyRnPG.BCgH6LnOgSkUP" /><em>Render of the proposed Rozelle Place. Image supplied</em></p>

<p>Construction is planned to commence in mid-2023 with completion due by 2025. It’s anticipated the apartments will be selling off the plan in 2023, with CBRE marketing them. An on-site sales office will include a display apartment and full detail on the retail offering.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Wests Ashfield, CEO, Simon Cook said the Club was excited that plans had progressed on the redevelopment of the site and he was pleased the amendments by Heworth sought to improve the current design scheme.<br />
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“The redevelopment of the former Balmain Leagues Club has been years in the making. It’s highly anticipated by the Club members and they are very much looking forward to the delivery of a new state of the art facility,” Cook said.&nbsp;</p>


Developer, Heworth submits amendments to approved DA reducing apartments supported by a major new Town Square, public plaza and retail precinct



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Balmain Leagues Club set for redevelopment

<p>Sydney apartment vendors secured a 70 percent weekend auction success rate with CoreLogic advising almost half the sales were pre-auction.</p>

<p>CoreLogic reported 214 apartment and townhouse sales with 97 finding buyers before auction.</p>

<p>Sydney estate agents secured 52 sales via online auctions given the city being in lockdown.</p>

<p>Some 48 listings were postponed.</p>

<p>CoreLogic calculated a $1.03 million median.</p>

<p>Sydney&#39;s dearest weekend apartment sale was the two bedroom, two bathroom at 161/5 Wulumay Close, Rozelle which sold at online auction for $2.77 million.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.urban.com.au/developments/sydney-nsw?source_news_article_id=104928&amp;ref=news_body_link"><img alt="" height="800" src="https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/www.urban.com.au/s3fs-public/pictures/article-images/sydney-cbd-_template_10.jpg" width="1200" /></a></p>

<p>Balmain Realty agent Scott Robertson marketed the top floor apartment as within &quot;the prized Balmain Cove harbourfront complex ... with exceptional build quality by Walker Corporation.&quot;</p>

<p>There had been a $2.5 million price guide for the refreshed 1999-built apartment with 127 sqm floor space.</p>

<p>It had last sold in 2012 at $1,275,000 and in 2006&nbsp;at $930,000.</p>

<p>It first sold off the plan in 1997 at $695,000.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

<p>Sydney was the strongest city with Brisbane seeing a 27 percent success rate for its apartment offerings.</p>

<p>Melbourne&#39;s 285 results saw a 66 percent success rate with a $670,000 median price.</p>

<p>Nationally there were 530 results across all the capital cities with a 67 percent success rate and a $737,000 median price.</p>


CoreLogic advised almost half the Sydney apartment sales were pre-auction

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Walker Corp apartment tops weekend auctions with Sydney vendors securing 70 percent success rate

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<p>Two commercial properties on Rozelle's busy Terry Street have sold at auction.</p>
<p>The most expensive property was a 43 square metre space leased to specialist wine merchant Empty Glass, which sold for $700,000 on a 5.41% yield.</p>
<p>They have the lease until 2021, with a five year option to 2026. It rents at $37,856 per annum.</p>
<p>Next doors' property, tenanted by Curti &amp; Co barbershop, sold for $630,000 on a 5.49% yield. They pay $34,611 per annum.</p>
<p>Both properties are located in a near new development and a four percent annual rent increases.</p>
<p>Burgess Rawson agents Michael Gilbert and Dean Venturato sold the properties at auction on Tuesday.</p>
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Empty Glass, Rozelle retail investment premises sell

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<p>The ASX-listed residential developer Desane has won its court battle against the NSW government's proposed low value compulsory acquisition of its development site in Rozelle for the construction of the WestConnex motorway.</p>
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<p>Justice Hammerschlag ruled the government's notice to acquire Desane's development site at 68-72 Lilyfield Road in Rozelle had no statutory effect.</p>
<p>"<span>Compulsory acquisition of private property is no light matter. </span></p>
<p><span>"Complying with the requirements of s 15 is not a matter of difficulty, and it is not too much to ask of an authority of State given power to interfere with such rights," the judge ruled.</span></p>
<p>Desane will keep the land to progress the residential development of its $100 million 200-apartment project, its chairman Professor John Sheehan advised.</p>
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<p data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-7770372_137="26656" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-7770372_137="4000" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-7770372_137="1">"I refer to Darryl Kerrigan in the movie The Castle," Professor Sheehan said after the court judgement.</p>
<p data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-7770372_137="26656" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-7770372_137="4000" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-7770372_137="1">"The court basically threw out the case."</p>
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<p>"They were being mean and tricky and trying to steal the property from us. They conveniently overlooked the LEP [Local Environmental Plan]."</p>
<p>Click here <a href="https://www.propertyobserver.com.au/images/2018/5/1/west-connex.jpg" target="_blank">to enlarge.</a></p>
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<p>"The bigger picture is that is is simply due to cost overruns, and the government is looking at value capture," he added.</p>
<p>They will acquire some sites on the fringe and get a development application... to offset the cost overrun," he said.</p>
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<div class="cq-article-content-media section">"It begs the question why some of these properties on the edge of infrastructure projects are being acquired," he told The Australian Financial Review adding that evidence revealed that the site was merely being considered for a car park.</div>
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<div class="cq-article-content-media section">“From day one, Desane questioned the true purpose of RMS’ proposed acquisition of our Rozelle property”, Professor Sheehan officially advised shareholders his ASX notification.</div>
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<p><span>“We are pleased that Justice Hammerschlag has found that the PAN issued by RMS was of no effect.”</span></p>
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<p data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-7770372_137="15628" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-7770372_137="4000" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-7770372_137="1">"If a land owner compulsorily to be dispossessed is entitled to know precisely what the land is needed for a public purpose, that entitlement must stem from elsewhere," Justice Hammerschlag said in his judgment.</p>
<p>"If there is no such entitlement, the land owner might never learn why his land is to be taken, an outcome which would be dissonant with the right in point of justice [articulated by Dixon CJ]."</p>
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<div class="cq-article-content-media section">"I conclude that the proposed acquisition notice of no statutory effect for failure to state the public purpose for which the property is to be acquired."</div>
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<div class="cq-article-content-media section">Late last year the Supreme Court of New South Wales <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/78856-nsw-supreme-court-orders-mediation-between-desane-and-nsw-government-rms-over-rozelle-site-dispute-for-westconnex" target="_blank">ordered a mediation</a> with the NSW government and various government agencies related to their proposed compulsory acquisition of the developer’s site in Sydney’s Rozelle.</div>
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<div class="cq-article-content-media section">The NSW state government and the Roads &amp; Maritime Services were ordered by the NSW Supreme Court to <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/76016-supreme-court-asks-state-rms-to-disclose-documents-to-desane-over-compulsory-acquisition" target="_blank">disclose documents justifying the compulsory acquisition.</a>
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<div class="cq-article-content-media section">Desane Properties Pty Ltd was represented in the proceedings by the Honourable Ron Merkel QC, David Pritchard, SC, and Stewart Levitt of Levitt Robinson Solicitors.</div>
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<div class="cq-article-content-media section"><span>RMS had throughout known that Desane wished to negotiate a solution which obviated the necessity for the permanent taking of the whole of the property.</span></div>
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<div class="cq-article-content-media section"><span><span>His honour noted what appeared to be the most developed plan at the time of the PAN shows only a use of a sliver of the property for a utilities corridor. </span></span></div>
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<div class="cq-article-content-media section"><span><span>"An easement would no doubt have sufficed to achieve this requirement absent the parkland commitment," Justice Hammerschlag ruled. </span></span></div>
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<div class="cq-article-content-media section"><span><span>"The same can be said of any works deep beneath the property.</span></span></div>
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<div class="cq-article-content-media section"><span><span>"In my view, it is improbable that RMS would have sought to acquire the entirety of the property (which it currently values at over $20 million) where only a sliver of it would be used, but for its open space and green parkland purpose."</span></span></div>
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<span><span><span>His Honour noted "i</span></span></span>n contrast to its somewhat amorphous purpose for acquiring the property to be used as a construction site, from at least 21 July 2016 RMS has had the unqualified and fixed purpose to acquire the Property to provide 10 hectares of open space and green parkland as publicly committed to by the Government</div>
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<div class="cq-article-content-media section">"The PAN was given to effectuate that purpose.</div>
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<div class="cq-article-content-media section">"That purpose is ulterior to the purpose for which the PAN could properly have been given," he ruled.</div>
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<div class="cq-article-content-media section">"<span>It will be an abuse of RMS’ powers if the ulterior purpose is a substantial purpose in the sense that no attempt would have been made to acquire the land if it had not been desired to achieve the unauthorised purpose."</span>
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Desane's Darryl Kerrigan wins case against low value Westconnex compulsory acquisition by NSW Government

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<p class="description">David Landa, the former NSW Ombudsman, and his wife, Valerie has sold their Rozelle home for $4.1 million, equalling the highest house sale in the suburb.</p>
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<p>The <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-nsw-rozelle-128837514" target="_blank">luxury three bedroom Evans Street home</a><a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-nsw-rozelle-128837514" title="www.realestate.com.au"> </a>was built in 2000.</p>
<p>They paid $370,000 in 1996.</p>
<p>The house is spread across three levels and has around 465 sqm of total space.</p>
<p>It features three verandas and an atrium with remote controlled blades to adjust sunlight levels.</p>
<p>It was on the market for three weeks, with almost 90 groups through and several strong offers made.</p>
<p>The selling agent Thomas Skelly of Savills issued 10 contracts.</p>
<p>A local family were quick to act, viewing the home twice before submitting the winning offer.</p>
<p>The sale equals the record set earlier this year when a Margaret Street waterfront also sold for $4.1 million.</p>
<p><em>This article was first published in the</em> Saturday Daily Telegraph. </p>
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David Landa sells Rozelle home for $4.1 million

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<p class="sc-qPVvu VgtSJ sc-qQKPx hgnyrg"><span id="U702471316614yJH">T</span>he commute from Sydney to the Southern Highlands must have ­become too much for chef <span id="U702471316614uUB"><span id="U702501490173w4F">Brigid Kennedy </span></span>and her farmer husband <span id="U7024713166140mH"><span id="U702501490173cpD">Kevin </span><span id="U702501490173hiG">Nott</span></span>.</p>
<p class="sc-qPVvu VgtSJ sc-qQKPx hgnyrg">The pair, who have used their Rozelle home as their Sydney base for eight years, have listed it for sale with ­expectations of $2.1 million.</p>
<p class="sc-qPVvu VgtSJ sc-qQKPx hgnyrg">The couple own The Loch in Berrima, a working farm that offers boutique accommodation and a restaurant for Sunday dining.</p>
<p class="sc-qPVvu VgtSJ sc-qQKPx hgnyrg">Kennedy is the chef and Nott is a farmer and landscaper who manages Loch Farm Stall, the farm gardens for their paddock-to-plate restaurant, The Tasting Room.</p>
<p class="sc-qPVvu VgtSJ sc-qQKPx hgnyrg">Their Roser St home is a two storey property; the top level is a three-bedroom, three-bathroom place in which they live when they are in Sydney.</p>
<p class="sc-qPVvu VgtSJ sc-qQKPx hgnyrg">The lower level a separate self-contained one-bedroom apartment with a study that is currently leased for $500 a week, an option agent <span id="U702471316614Yu"><span id="U702501490173n7D">Lynsey </span><span id="U702501490173jHF">Kemp </span></span>of Belle Property Balmain hopes will set the home apart.</p>
<p class="sc-qPVvu VgtSJ sc-qQKPx hgnyrg"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dz9xllyip/image/fetch/c_scale,w_580,q_auto:good/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/po.images/2020/8/10/rozelle%202.jpg" alt=""></p>
<p class="sc-qPVvu VgtSJ sc-qQKPx hgnyrg">“(Brigid and Kevin) have been spending more and more time in Berrima so it’s a situation where they don’t need their Sydney base any more,” Kennedy said.</p>
<p class="sc-qPVvu VgtSJ sc-qQKPx hgnyrg">“It’s a beautiful double-fronted home in a central location but a big feature of it is that it offers the flexibility to keep the lower level leased to provide an income, or convert it into a big family home.”</p>
<p class="sc-qPVvu VgtSJ sc-qQKPx hgnyrg">Kennedy adds this flexible option which allowed them to lease the lower level of their home has been a financial boon over the years.</p>
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<p class="sc-qPVvu VgtSJ sc-qQKPx hgnyrg">“Having a stylish self-contained apartment is a financial-drought proofer with either a permanent tenant or a more lucrative Airbnb arrangement,” Kennedy said.</p>
<p class="sc-qPVvu VgtSJ sc-qQKPx hgnyrg">“It’s very appealing, especially so close to town.” An August 29 auction is planned.</p>
<p>This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.  </p>
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Chef Brigid Kennedy lists Rozelle home

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<p>The Landers family have sold their heritage-listed 1881 Rozelle home, the former Beach Hotel.</p>
<p>Some $3.2 million was being sought by Tristan Landers, principal at management consultancy IN21, and her husband, David Landers, general manager for East Asian Growth Markets at the Australian Trade Commission who paid $1.7 million in 2011.</p>
<p>Following its restorative conversion from offices into a Mansfield Street family home, it has six bedrooms, multiple living areas including a library/home office and a courtyard off Smith Street.</p>
<p>There's 40 sqm balcony decking too.</p>
<p>Not too much remains from its pub days, excepting the etched glass front door panels. </p>
<p>The hotel was first known as the Why Not, then in 1887 it became the Beach Hotel, perhaps historians suggest because of the beach then in front of it in White Bay, but plausibly in honour of Australian sculling champion Bill Beach, who became world champion in 1886.</p>
<p>The favoured haunt of sawmill workers, it went into decline before finally closing in 1928.</p>
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Rozelle pub conversion sold

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<p>A Rozelle home needing some TLC has been listed with $1.4 million hopes for November 26 auction.</p>
<p>The two front rooms and bathroom have been renovated since it last traded for $1,173,000 in 2013, but the rear remains very much untouched.</p>
<p><img src="/images/2016/11/01/backyard.jpg" alt="" width="354" height="207"></p>
<p>It previously hadn't sold for nearly half a century excepting the 2013 sale.</p>
<p>The property at <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-rozelle-123985778" target="_blank">23 Gordon Street</a> is set on 353 sqm offers a large backyard.</p>
<p><img src="/images/2016/11/01/bathroom.jpg" alt="" width="353" height="257"></p>
<p>The listing follows a number of expensive and unliveable homes that have hit the market in recent weeks.</p>
<p>The first was a <a href="/news/60469-rundown-redfern-cottage-price-revised-to-2-5-million" target="_blank">crumbling Redfern terrace</a>, once part of the estate of William Redfern, the suburbs namesake. That comes with $2.5 million asking hopes after <a href="/news/59857-crumbling-redfern-shacks-hit-the-market-at-3-million" target="_blank">originally being listed for $3 million</a>.</p>
<p>A home with no roof in Hawthorn sold <a href="/expert-insights/buying/60940-roofless-house-fetches-2-8-million?utm_source=Property+Observer+List&amp;utm_campaign=9024d28902-31_October_2016&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_a523fbfccb-9024d28902-245616761" target="_blank">last weekend for $2.8 million</a> and a <a href="/news/60930-derelict-paddington-terrace-fetches-190-000-more" target="_blank">derelict Paddington terrace fetched $1.19 million</a>, a quick flip of $190,000 for the owner of eight months.</p>
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Dilapidated Rozelle Federation home priced at $1.4 million

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<p>A Rozelle home hidden behind a hedge-covered facade has hit the market with a price guide of $2 million.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-rozelle-124048706" target="_blank">The vastly renovated 1880s home</a> started life as an old inn and last traded for $540,000 in 2001, unrenovated.</p>
<p>Its McGrath listing agent, Cindy Kennedy, told <em>The Daily Telegraph</em> the owners discovered artefacts from the age when the home ran as an inn.</p>
<p>“They found old pocket watches and all these old antiques [inside],” she said.</p>
<p>The owners had the mementos framed and they will remain in the house once it is sold to the next owner.</p>
<p>The old inn's former cellar has been transformed into a self-contained apartment.</p>
<p>There are a further three bedrooms on the upper level and an entertainers' courtyard.</p>
<p>The hedge facade only needs to be trimmed two or three times a year, Kennedy advised.</p>
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Hedge-covered Rozelle home set for sale

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<p>A former police station complete with prison cells is being leased as an office or warehouse space in in the inner western Sydney suburb of Rozelle.</p>
<p>The former Rozelle Police Station at 707 Darling Street, Rozelle is on the market through Ray White Commercial. The 450 sqm building features three jail cells and barred windows.</p>
<p><img src="https://www.urban.com.au/images/2017/05/22/Screen%20Shot%202017-05-22%20at%2011.45.12%20AM.png" alt=""></p>
<p>Tim Morrison, Ray White Commercial Inner West principal said the historical landmark now has an artistic feel to it with a blend of old and new interiors throughout.</p>
<p>“The old police station offers a substantial building on two street frontages, with office and warehouse space including roller shutter access," he said.</p>
<p>"The building also offers retail potential.</p>
<p>“The property is on strategic corner location, only metres from Victoria Road and is approximately 4km from the Sydney CBD.</p>
<p>“The offering is close to transport facilities and is surrounded by Rozelle’s vibrant retail precinct including restaurants, cafes, art galleries and specialty boutiques.”</p>
<p>It is the former headquarters for children’s charity Variety.</p>
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