News Council Tackles NRL Club on $500m Precinct Plans

[Hacky McAxe]

Bit of interesting reading for anyone as board as me.

The Canterbury Leagues Club is planning a development of a $500 million precinct, but Liverpool council are making it difficult.

theurbandeveloper.com/articles/bulldogs-canterbury-nrl-precinct-plans-liverpool


Liverpool City Council is at loggerheads with one of the country’s biggest rugby league clubs over plans for a half-a-billion-dollar lifestyle, entertainment and recreational precinct on the edge of their city.

The Canterbury League Club has put together a planning proposal for 10 buildings, which would house 1150 apartments, 44 serviced units, 150 hotel rooms, up to 1000sq m of commercial space and a registered club.

The club alone will cover 9300 square metres.

The proposal seeks to develop a generally vacant 29,720-sq-m site at 84 Memorial Avenue, Liverpool. About 660sq m of that is a corner lot at 82 Memorial Avenue. Online records show both lots were acquired by Canterbury in October 2020.

The bulk of the land is zoned RE2 Private Recreation under the Liverpool’s 2008 local environmental plan, but that only allows for a maximum building height of 21 metres.

Canterbury’s plan is to break the site into three precincts—a club-hotel precinct, a western residential and an eastern residential precinct. Those areas would have building heights of 37m, 62m and 77m, including two-metre allowances for lift overruns and plant rooms on the roof of towers....

 

[Heckler]

Good find!

 

[Alan79]

I hope this goes through. Added financial stability for a long time.

 

[bulldog butch]

C'mon Liverpool council....
Make it happen!
Surely the vision for this is the next 20+ years, be interesting to see where we as a club end up in the future.....

 

[Sandra's Bollocks]

I'm glad they're still persisting with this.

 

[The DoggFather]

Bit of interesting reading for anyone as board as me.

The Canterbury Leagues Club is planning a development of a $500 million precinct, but Liverpool council are making it difficult.

theurbandeveloper.com/articles/bulldogs-canterbury-nrl-precinct-plans-liverpool


Liverpool City Council is at loggerheads with one of the country’s biggest rugby league clubs over plans for a half-a-billion-dollar lifestyle, entertainment and recreational precinct on the edge of their city.

The Canterbury League Club has put together a planning proposal for 10 buildings, which would house 1150 apartments, 44 serviced units, 150 hotel rooms, up to 1000sq m of commercial space and a registered club.

The club alone will cover 9300 square metres.

The proposal seeks to develop a generally vacant 29,720-sq-m site at 84 Memorial Avenue, Liverpool. About 660sq m of that is a corner lot at 82 Memorial Avenue. Online records show both lots were acquired by Canterbury in October 2020.

The bulk of the land is zoned RE2 Private Recreation under the Liverpool’s 2008 local environmental plan, but that only allows for a maximum building height of 21 metres.

Canterbury’s plan is to break the site into three precincts—a club-hotel precinct, a western residential and an eastern residential precinct. Those areas would have building heights of 37m, 62m and 77m, including two-metre allowances for lift overruns and plant rooms on the roof of towers....

Board as you?

You just proved you're human and not some genius AI my bro

All jokes aside, fk I hope this happens.

 

[wendog33]

Any plans for a sports arena included in this development?

 

[Hacky McAxe]

Board as you?

You just proved you're human and not some genius AI my bro

All jokes aside, fk I hope this happens.

I could say it was a construction joke, but I just screwed up.

 

[The DoggFather]

I could say it was a construction joke, but I just screwed up.

And just like that, you redeem yourself lol

 

[off-tap-robbie]

Canterbury Leagues Club: Huge development plans hope to bypass council refusal

A Sydney leagues club is set to bypass a council refusal of an “inappropriate” multimillion-dollar development — which is set to include a brand-new club building, over 1000 apartments and several high-rise buildings in Sydney’s south west.
In a rezoning review application submitted after Liverpool Council refused the plans, Canterbury Leagues Club called for the NSW Planning Department to approve the major rejuvenation of 84 Memorial Ave, Liverpool.

The proposal, resubmitted in October, includes 1150 apartments, a new 9300m2 leagues club, 150 hotel rooms, 44 serviced apartments and increased commercial space.

Under the plans, the site would be split into three distinct precincts: a club and hotel precinct, an eastern residential precinct, and a western residential precinct.

It would also rezone the area to increase the maximum building height from 21 metres up to a whopping 77, with buildings planned consisting of that height, 62 metres and 37 metres.

The site, slightly further afield from Canterbury‘s supporter heartlands, sits on Woodward Park, a vacant patch of green space just off the main Liverpool city centre.

As part of the proposal, and as voluntary planning agreements, they’d also be a new pedestrian bridge over Copeland St, an internal road to the city centre, upgrades to the nearby Hillier Oval and a monetary contribution to upgrade Whitlam Leisure Centre.

However, in March 2022, Liverpool City Council rejected the proposal, saying it “lacked strategic and site-specific merit”.

A peer review of the proposal by planners City Plan said the development had “the potential to compete with the city centre and undermine its vitality and viability”.


“The proposal seeks to increase the maximum building height and would result in an inappropriate scale of development,” the planner said.

“The proposal is inconsistent with state and local strategies – a proposal of this nature has significant strategic implications for the LGA and the city centre in particular.”

However, according to planners from GAT & Associates, on behalf of the applicant, the plans contributed to the area and community.

“The development is conceived as a lifestyle, entertainment and recreational precinct providing entertainment and recreation uses that are not found within the Liverpool City Centre, while also providing residential and limited commercial uses,” a planner said.

“The precinct is not intended or designed to compete with the Liverpool City Centre, but rather be a destination precinct in its own right.

“A core consideration of the masterplan has been the public benefit of the development for the wider community.”

The proposal, a planner said, would also help the Liverpool local government area meet the priorities set by the NSW Government in job creation and increased housing, something disputed by council.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/the-express/canterbury-leagues-club-huge-development-plans-hope-to-bypass-council-refusal/news-story/1b5f53b578a753d71f447e56d3e5e73b

 

[Wahesh]

If you guys think parking at Belmore is bad, wait until you see this.