Plans Filed for The Orchard’s Penultimate Stage

Sekisui House has filed plans for the penultimate stage of its masterplanned community project The Orchards north-west of Sydney’s CBD.

The masterplan on the 8.1ha site at 104 Fairway Drive in Norwest comprises five stages. The first and second stages, Imperial and Aire, are completed while construction began on the first phase of the third stage, Lumia, earlier this year, as it the sales campaign for phase two of the that stage, dubbed Lumia Lux.

The Crone Architects-designed fourth stage, which has yet to be named, comprises 583 apartments across six buildings ranging from three to 20 storeys plus 818 car parking spaces. 

The buildings will surround a courtyard space and have a swimming pool, boardwalk and vertical gardens, outdoor dining facilities and a linear park. 

The Orchards is about 31km north-west of Sydney’s CBD. It is 800m from Norwest Metro Train Station and 600m from Norwest Marketown as well as Norwest Business Park, which has more than 30,000 employees.

The $1-billion masterplan will eventual boast 1300 homes plus 2ha of green space. 

Amenities across the entire site include a 1.4-hectare public park, playgrounds, break-out green spaces, outdoor lagoon pool, large indoor fitness centre and indoor heated swimming pool, all designed around the Japanese principle of satoyama or connecting people via ribbons of green space.

The first stage of masterplan, Imperial, has two seven-storey buildings with 121 apartments and parking for 260 vehicles across three basement levels, while stage two, Aire, had two buildings of nine and 13 storeys comprising 57 apartments and around 800 parking spaces.

Lumia will have 203 apartments with more underground parking while Lumia Lux will have 127 apartments with 11 one, 96 two, 17 three-bedroom units and three 176sq m four-bedroom penthouses.

Prices range from $650,000 for a one-bedroom unit to more than $2.4 million for a penthouse.

Sekisui House has secured more than $35 million in sales for Lumia Lux with more than 50 per cent of the buyers local.