NSW Reforms Prompt $33m Midrise Scheme at Engadine
New South Wales’ housing reforms are pushing a $33-million apartment plan onto two house lots in a low-rise pocket of Sydney’s south.
Almitra Projects has filed plans for a nine-storey building of 50 apartments for 28-30 Anzac Avenue, Engadine, about 325m from the suburb’s town centre.
The site, about 37km south-west of Sydney’s CBD, is also within walking distance of Engadine Station on the T4 rail line.
The JSA Studio Architects-designed scheme would replace a two-storey house with a swimming pool and a single-storey house on the 1959sq m site.
It would mark a sharp shift for Anzac Avenue, where the immediate neighbours are mainly houses and two-storey townhouse blocks.
Engadine already has newer five and six-storey shop-top buildings in its town centre.
But the Anzac Avenue site is outside the commercial core, where the underlying Sutherland Shire controls allow 9m heights and about 1370sq m of floor space.
State planning rules lift those benchmarks for eligible land near nominated centres.
With 10 affordable homes included, Almitra’s proposal seeks 28.3m and 5600sq m of floor space—more than four times the site’s underlying floor-space control.
Almitra is advancing the proposal as a Low and Mid-Rise (LMR) housing play, using state rules introduced in 2025 to allow more apartments, terraces and manor houses near nominated town centres and transport hubs.
Planning documents said the site qualified for the LMR pathway because it was within 400m of land identified as Engadine Town Centre.
The building would be split into two blocks, with a landscaped courtyard between them.
Plans comprise two studio or one-bedroom apartments, 15 two-bedroom apartments, 32 three-bedroom apartments and one four-bedroom apartment.
Affordable housing would comprise one studio or one-bedroom apartment and nine two-bedroom apartments, managed by Cubic Real Estate for at least 15 years.
Three basement levels would provide 92 car spaces, while 14 bicycle spaces are planned at ground level.
Plans also include 12 adaptable apartments, with all 50 apartments listed as liveable housing units.
Existing houses and associated outbuildings would be demolished.
Five trees or tree groups would be removed from the site and replaced with 34 new trees.
Plans also show 515sq m of communal open space and 961.5sq m of landscaped area.
Pyrmont-based agency Adam Charles listed 28-30 Anzac Avenue in March 2025, highlighting a 22m height limit, 2.2:1 floor-space ratio and potential for 4360sq m of gross floor area.
The listing is now marked sold but no sale date or price was disclosed. Almitra Projects was registered in April last year and Ramia Farhat is listed as director and secretary.
