Following the announcement that The Trustee For Main St Medical Trust is considering an aged care and wellness centre at 52-64 Annerley Rd Woolloongabba, locals could not help but express their concerns regarding the proposed facility.
The plan, based on DA A004827412 was to construct two 10-12 storey buildings forming one combined tower for a residential care and retirement facility with a health care service, shop, and office, as well as food and drink outlet.
A submission from the Corah House Body Corporate Committee says the proposed development is a “major overdevelopment of the site, and will have irreversible impacts on residential amenity, streetscape character and the built form character of the area.”
The locals also cited that the proposed development creates a building bulk that is overbearing and unsuitable for the intended type and form of building in Annerley.
Simon Grace, Senior Urban Planner of the Brisbane City Council requested the developers, the Pikos Group, to provide amended plans that will provide an adequate interface to the adjoining uses and surrounding streetscape.
In response, The Trustee For Main St Medical Trust in behalf of Cardno has amended the proposed development to reduce the podium height from five storeys to four storeys. The fifth storey of the podium has been integrated into the tower of the proposed development.
“The reduction in the scale of the proposed development has resulted in a more proportionate built form outcome along Annerley Road and provides an appropriate interface to the adjacent existing multiple dwelling buildings (and noting that the adjoining sites also have a further development opportunity under the Dutton-Park Fairfield Neighbourhood Plan) and the Character Residential area partly opposite the site on Lockhart Street,” Frances Cassaniti, Senior Town Planner at Cardno wrote in the response in behalf of the applicant.
Cassaniti added the The Trustee For Main St Medical Trust proposes to remove the Retirement Facility and Aged Care Facility uses from the 64 Annerley Road component of the development, and accommodate health care service and office uses in its place, consistent with the balance of the proposed development.
“Furthermore, the Retirement Facility and Aged Care Facility uses are only proposed to be removed following ongoing concerns expressed by Council as part of the statutory assessment process,” Cassaniti said.
Part of the amendments is to increase the depth of the central deep planting area, along Annerley Road, to be the full extent of the basement. It will address the lack of appropriate provision and appropriately located landscaping and deep planting.
Consequently, the development assessment process does not stop or restart. Cardno said the proposed change will not impact on the development’s compliance with the Overall Outcomes for the Dutton Park Fairfield Neighbourhood Plan area.
The centre, designed by Kris Kowalski Architects, would be Collective Health & Wellness, “Australia’s most advanced medical centre” if approved.
For the status of the proposed aged care and wellness centre, see the Full Development Application – A004827412.
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