A PROPOSAL to build a 10-storey apartment building at the Endeavour Cove precinct in Patterson Lakes has been dealt a blow.
The 10-storey development is planned for 64 Pier One Drive. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal recently considered an application to use the building for residential apartments while reducing car parking requirements at the site. It knocked back the request.
The VCAT finding read that under the current planning controls at the site, no permission is required to construct a building. However, VCAT has rejected developer Cavendish Properties’ application for the site to be used for residential apartments.
“Use of the land for dwellings without planning approval is conditional upon car parking being provided at the ratio of at least 2 covered spaces and 1 visitor space to each dwelling,” the VCAT finding read. “The proposed provision of 133 car spaces, including 119 resident spaces and 14 visitor spaces will result in a shortfall of 21 resident spaces (two-bedroom dwellings only) and 56 visitor spaces.”
The VCAT finding also read that there was “confusion at the hearing about the land to which the permit would apply.”
“This permit application fails because it has not been brought in a comprehensive manner in accordance with orderly and proper planning,” the outcome read.
Kingston Council has been advocating for the planning minister to call in the matter (“Last chance to intervene at Endeavour Cove” The News 14/9/22).
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 12 October 2022