The St Clair Village Shopping Centre is a predominantly single level neighbourhood shopping centre that is based on a Coles supermarket with supporting speciality shops and an at grade car park for customers and an upper deck car park for staff. There is a vacant parcel of land to the north of the at grade car park (Allotment 6005 Cheltenham Parade).
The Proponent owns the St Clair Village Shopping Centre (Allotment 6006 Cheltenham Parade) and Allotment 6005. The St Clair Village Shopping Centre is located within the Suburban Activity Centre (SAC) Zone. The vacant allotment (Allotment 6005) is located within an Urban Renewal Neighbourhood (URN) Zone.
An independent market assessment suggests the St Clair Village Shopping Centre and adjacent vacant allotment to the north are underutilised, in an area with increasing retail demand driven by local population growth and densification.
The Code Amendment Seeks to expand the existing SAC Zone over the St Clair Village Shopping Centre, to include the vacant parcel to the north (Allotment 6005), and to increase the maximum building height policy from four levels to seven levels.
The current zoning of the vacant land (URN Zone) supports mixed-use development outcomes but poses constraints on the extent of retail development allowable. Specifically, a shop with a gross leasable floor area of 1,000 square metres and above is designated as a Restricted form of development. Further, both the SAC and URN Zones impose height restrictions that may impinge on an integrated master planned development of the Affected Area. The existing code restricts the maximum building height to four levels, below some nearby residential buildings.
The Code Amendment seeks to provide revised planning policy outcome more conducive to:
an integrated master planned development and more housing opportunities in a strategic location;
an improved gateway at the entrance to the St Clair Village development with a more prominent and contemporary built form; and
an expanded shopping centre and retail offering to meet growing local demand, local convenience needs, and retain expenditure that might otherwise flow out of the area. The scale of the development will also respect the existing active centre hierarchy and complement rather than compete with larger centres such as Arndale, Port Adelaide Plaza and Westfield West Lakes.
No buildings are proposed as part of the Code Amendment, which seeks to change the planning policies that guide future development.
