Interest in development near Australia’s most famous beach continues to run hot as plans are filed to combine two previous projects and create a 15-storey shoptop scheme. Cassa Blanka, led by Stargate Property Group’s Igal and Elia Leis, have filed the plans for the Waverley Council and they went on state significant exhibition on March 26. The SJB-designed scheme shows 111 apartments including 17 affordable homes above a retail podium and six levels of basement parking. It would cost $79 million to develop the project at 362-374 and 376-384 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction. The development would span seven lots across 1554sq m, which were cleared—with the exception of the heritage-listed Imperial Building facade—for two previously approved plans. Those plans were for a 14-to-15-storey development approved in 2016, and a 13-to-14-storey development of 2022 that added retail tenancies. The site also fronts Vernon Street, Rowe Lane and Newland Street. The “key design principles and built form are generally in accordance with the previous consents” with the addition of a 30 per cent affordable height bonus, according to the Urbis planning report.  ▲ Renderings of the fresh plans for the site at 362-374 and 376-384 Oxford Street, which has already been cleared. Meanwhile down the road, the former Waverley Telephone Exchange came to market last week, complete with an adaptive reuse project approved for the site. The single-level property could be developed into a mixed-use development with 60 serviced apartments. CBRE agents have listed the corner property at 122-126 Bronte Road, Bondi Junction, via an expressions-of-interest campaign. 
