Doma lodges development application on former Red Hill public housing precinct

Canberra developer Doma has lodged plans for its redevelopment of the former Red Hill public housing precinct.

A proposal to construct 136 apartments was submitted to the ACT government last week. The units will span six buildings.

The development, called the Parks, will “respect the residential nature of Red Hill”, according to Doma senior development manager David Carey.

“Rather than the large glass-and-steel complexes people may be used to seeing elsewhere in apartment design, the Parks’ residences has been inspired by Parisian and London townhouses complete with recessed balconies,” Mr Carey said.

Most of the apartments in the development would be two and three-bedrooms, Mr Carey said.

“The average two-bedroom will be over 100 square metres and three-bedrooms will be closer to 130 square metres, with many ranging between 165 square metres up to 220 square metres in size. The average outdoor space of each residence will be 30 square metres,” he said.

“The low-density nature of the development allows us to create larger homes.”

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The development has not yet been opened for public comment. Doma did not specify how many storeys each building will be, but that it “is consistent with the Territory Plan in terms of heights and storeys”.

Doma is redeveloping the site in a consortium with Stockland. The pair were announced as the successful tenders for the site in July last year, paying more than $50 million.

There will be a total of 244 dwellings in the 53,003-square-metre precinct. Doma will develop the apartments and Stockland will deliver 83 townhouses and 25 land lots – 10 of which were sent to market in March.

Stockland is in the process of submitting applications.

The Parks is set to go on the market next Month, with completion expected in late 2021.

The ACT government lodged an estate development application to renew the site in 2017. The proposal outlined a plan for 252 dwellings, with 108 single-detached and terrace-style homes, and up to 144 multi-unit dwellings.

It comes as Stockland contractors were forced to halt construction on the site in March after the discovery of bonded asbestos.

The developers have been working with government agencies on a plan to remediate the site, and last month announced they were commencing “preliminary remediation works to remove areas of topsoil across the site”.