A developer has plans to subdivide about five hectares into 97 home sites at Walloon.
Piano Keys East Pty Ltd is making a bid for council planning permits to subdivide most of the northern half of the three properties off Taylors Road and with frontage to Rohl Road.
Addressed as 44, 54 and 72 Taylors Road, diagrams uploaded as part of the application indicate that 90 of the allotments are less that 390sqm and include eight ‘terrace’ allotments which range in size from 210 to 238sqm.
The developers are proposing to activate the subdivision across three stages.
In Stage 1, 27 lots are to be developed as well as a 6,200sqm stormwater basin, and the formation of the start of a series of internal roads and the only access to the total development off Rohl Road. A small strip of land will also be set aside as open space during this stage.
A total of 24 allotments are proposed for Stage 2 and the final stage has 46 allotments including the eight ‘terrace’ lots.
While the ecological assessment commissioned by the developer found no significant vegetation communities on the development site, it was noted that a section of high value regrowth and core koala habitat was identified on the southern half of the properties at 54 and 72 Taylors Road.
As a result, the developers have allowed a minimum 10 metre buffer between the development boundary and the protected vegetation.
The southern half of the three properties as well as a long thin strip on the western boundary of 44 Taylors Road will become a single ‘balance’ lot if council approves the application.
The land is located within the Western Growth Corridor in the Emerging Communities and Low Density Residential zones, which means the application is code assessible and therefore does not have go through a public notification process.
Town planning agents for the developer noted that the three stage subdivision was a natural follow on from the approved developments surrounding the properties.
“There is significant development occurring in the immediate area, including directly to the north of Taylors Road, south and west of the site,” it was pointed out in the application.
“These include the 49 Taylors Road Residential Development (approved for 158 residential lots); Dawn Walloon (approved for 1,886 residential lots); Highland Walloon (approved for 243 residential lots); and Taylors Ridge (approved for 66 residential lots).
“There is a current ‘Other Change’ application under council assessment for an additional 15 residential lots.”
The town planning agents originally lodged a similar application for a planning permit to subdivide a portion of three properties just before Christmas.
That application was withdrawn on Monday, February 2, and as a result the developer forfeited almost $15,000 of the $148,300 application fee.
The current application was submitted three days later and is now being assessed by council planners.
