Billbergia’s $253m Arncliffe Redevelopment Approved

Sydney developer Billbergia’s four-tower residential precinct at Arncliffe in the NSW capital has been approved.

The developer is partnering with the NSW government and not-for-profit community housing provider Evolve Housing to deliver the $253-million redevelopment.

The state significant project will rise on a 1.3ha site owned by the NSW Land and Housing Corporation. Arncliffe is 11km south of the Sydney CBD.

The 60,000sq m development will comprise four towers, one of 21 storeys, two at 20 storeys and one of 17 storeys that will house the social housing elements of the project.

There will be a total of 744 apartments, including 180 social housing apartments that will be owned, operated and managed by Evolve Housing.

It will also feature 3100sq m of retail gross floor area, a 240sq m childcare centre and 813 spaces of lower ground and basement carparking.

Incoming NSW Land and Housing Corporation chief executive Simon Newport said the redevelopment was a leading example of how partnerships could deliver increased housing across the state. 

“This is what can be achieved when we collaborate with the private and not-for-profit sectors. At no cost to the taxpayer, we’ll deliver both an increase to the supply of new social and private housing,” Newport said.

▲ The project is Billbergia's third in partnership with the NSW government.

Billbergia group managing director John Kinsella said the Arncliffe project was the third it would deliver in partnership with the NSW Land and Housing Corporation.

“Projects like these demonstrate how government and private sectors can work together to deliver social housing by taking a true long-term community view,” Kinsella said.

“We’re looking forward to transforming the dated social housing into a thriving new community which blends private and social housing into a vibrant precinct containing more than 4000sq m of parklands and open space.”

Construction is expected to begin in the first quarter of next year for completion in the fourth quarter of 2025.

Meanwhile, construction of Billbergia’s fourth residential high-rise on the Rhodes peninsula in Sydney’s inner-west is under way and a final fifth tower is in the early development stage. 

A stage of its Rhodes Central project, it will comprise 126 apartments spanning 15 levels, including six one-bedroom apartments, 64 two-bedroom and 56 three-bedroom apartments. 

Rhodes Central was named Development of the Year—Mixed-Use at this year’s The Urban Developer Awards for Industry Excellence.