An approved data centre in Melbourne’s north-east is back before the state as the developer looks to fine-tune its plans.
PVAC Developments has filed an amendment application for 525, 533 and 535 McDonalds Road at South Morang, 20km north-east of the CBD, with the Victorian Department of Transport and Planning.
The developer has approval for a 55MW, four-storey data centre designed by Ewert Leaf Architects for the site. It won its permit through the Development Facilitation Program, a fast-track pathway.
Changes sought include increasing the building area to the north, west and south of the current building envelope, reducing the height from four storeys to three but increasing the floor-to-ceiling heights, meaning the building’s height would remain the same.
Title deeds for the 36,519sq m site show a caveat placed on all three lots by PVAC Developments with Gary McMillan as the property owner for 525 and 533 McDonalds Road.
The other lot, 535 McDonalds Road, is owned by McMillan Property Group.
Cotality (formerly CoreLogic) property records show that 525 and 535 McDonalds Road were purchased in November of 2014 and settled in September the next year.
The former was purchased for $750,000 and the latter for $5.5 million. There was no record for 533 McDonalds Road.
ASIC records list Mark Anthony Avery of investment firm CVC Limited and quantity surveyor Blanco Peter Howard Norton as directors of PVAC Developments.
CVC Limited, Oleander Capital Pty Ltd and Leafton Holdings Pty Ltd all hold shares in PVAC.
Norton and architect William John Leaf are the directors of Leafton Holdings but also the directors of Dover.
According to its website, Dover provides land owners and developers with a development application pathway to approval for data centres.
