Adelaide CBD Upscales With 10-Level Slender Tower Plans

Plans are in the works for a 10-storey apartment block in south-western Adelaide.

Developer Ormond Nominees Pty Ltd applied to develop the vacant land at 75-76 South Terrace, an amalgamation of two lots. 

According to the development application, five two-storey apartments will be located across four levels, with four bedrooms each. 

The remaining 10 apartments will be two-bedroom, two-bathrooms plus guest toilets. 

It will be considerably larger than many of its direct neighbours, although there are a number of mixed-use buildings of 7-10 storeys further along South Terrace.

The building will have a glazed street frontage at ground level for use as a common room by tenants. 

There will also be a communal rooftop space, according to plans from Advantage Planning, but there will be no parking provided.

▲ The scale of the building “befits its location on the South Terrace Parklands frontage”, according to the application.

The highrise building was admittedly high intensity and large in scale, according to the application, but this would contribute to the city’s residential population and employment opportunities, it said. 

However, despite its scale it marked a downsize from a project submitted by Simon Voss Development for a 12-storey project on the same site. 

This older project only covered half the site width, which was refused last year over concerns about how skinny was too skinny, according to local media.

The site is on the southwestern corner of the city near the intersection of Morphett Street and South Terrace, overlooking Golden Wattle Park, and the immediate locality is populated with commercial and some residential land uses. 

Adelaide is one of the cities benefitting from counter-cyclical growth and has some major projects in the pipeline, including Pelligra and Freemasons tower, which will be the tallest in the city and was approved earlier this year, whilst Tim Gurner filed a billion-dollar Adelaide play at the end of last year.