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Abadeen Files Plans for 100-Home Mosman Shoptop Project
Plans for a part-five, part-10 storey shoptop project for a suburb on Sydney’s North Shore at the centre of a planning dispute have been filed with the NSW planning department.
Developer Abadeen is planning the project of 100 homes for the site at 494-516 Military Road, Mosman. Three of the homes would be affordable.
Planned are two blocks on a shared podium. Building A on the east side of the podium would comprise 85 apartments across eight storeys while building B to the west would have 15 homes across four storeys.
Communal facilities on the 10th storey of the building would include a gym and barbecue area.
The single-level podium would accommodate retail outlets fronting Military and Hale roads.
A community garden, mechanic shop and a garden landscaping yard would be demolished to make way for the 3170sq m scheme dubbed Honeysuckle Mosman.
Car parking for 140 residents, 22 for visitors and 10 for the retail outlets would be spread across two-and-a-half basement levels.
The project has an estimated development cost of more than $63 million and an end value of $230 million.
Architecture firm DKO has designed the scheme.
A concurrent rezoning proposal was filed to increase the maximum building height under the Local Environment Plan from 12m to 32 metres.
The rezoning proposal also sought to increase the maximum floor space ratio from 2:1 to 3:17:1, and to merge the site’s six lots into one.
The site—on Cammeraygal land between Cremorne and Spit Junction—is 6km north of Sydney CBD and about 4km from North Sydney.
Abadeen executive chairman Justin Brown said the towers would include a mix of apartment sizes with options for individuals, couples, families and downsizers.
Brown said projects such as Honeysuckle Mosman were becoming increasingly rare in established Sydney harbour suburbs.
Abadeen has been active across Sydney’s premium residential market, with recent projects including Putney Wharf, a $300-million adaptive reuse of Halvorsen’s boatshed delivering 67 luxury apartments and townhouses, plus retail, dining and a marina. The group has also progressed Henri House at Darlinghurst and its Brighton Le Sands development.
The developer has also expanded its pipeline through planning reforms, including a $36-million six-storey apartment project at Woollahra and a move into Victoria with projects at Malvern East and Prahran East. Abadeen has also been progressing its Haven build-to-rent platform, launched in 2023.
The suburb has been the epicentre of a stoush as the Mosman Council pushes back against the NSW Government’s Low and Mid-Rise Housing Policy.
The council has argued the blanket planning rules take little account of the area’s character, heritage and infrastructure constraints and said it can deliver the required housing through a more targeted approach, rather than allowing density to spread across established neighbourhoods.
The dispute has intensified as council develops a masterplan that aims to deliver at least 4700 new homes while concentrating growth in areas it considers better suited to change.
The state, meanwhile, is pursuing broader housing targets and planning reforms that give councils greater responsibility for maintaining long-term housing cap.
