Concept plans reveal complete vision for Stamford Grand Hotel site

Plan includes 636 apartments, 1200sqm of retail and commercial space

The State Government may have only last week put the Herring Rd urban activation precinct plan on display for public comment.

The Stamford Grand will be redeveloped into a residential complex.

But key landowners are already well advanced in their plans to transform the area.

The Northern District Times has been given the first look at what the Stamford Grand Hotel site would look like after it is demolished and rebuilt into a mixed use residential complex with seven buildings ranging from four to 22 storeys in height.

The site, on the corner of Herring and Epping Rds in MacquariePark, would provide 636 apartments and 1200sqm of retail commercial space when completed.

Construction is set to begin later this year and is due to be completed in 2017.

The development was subject to a previous planning proposal but has been included in the overall vision for the Herring Rd precinct, one of eight across the State aimed at getting thousands more people living close to work and public transport.

Building works on the site next to MorlingBaptistTheologicalCollege on Herring Rd are in full swing.

Two more are scheduled for completion by October and the fifth by October next year.

Two of five residential towers, which will provide about 600 new apartments, are already completed.

A new road called Saunders Close would provide access to the apartments and the college off Herring Rd.

The buildings, which are being constructed by The Toga Group, range from nine to 12 storeys in height.

The College, which sold the land to Toga, was planning to build a 100-bed student housing facility, lecture rooms, a cafe and student lounge by the start of the 2016 school year.

Macquarie University has been given approval for 400,00sqm of new commercial uses and 61,200sqm of new academic uses, student housing, associated infrastructure and open space.

The Herring Rd draft plans are on exhibition until August 10 and can be viewed at: planning.nsw.gov.au/herringroad.

[Source: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/]