New plan to build 25 inner-city units

LOCAL developers have lodged plans to transform a central Hobart site currently used as an automotive car yard and workshops into a new 25-unit apartment complex.

Family-run business Giameos Developments Pty Ltd has lodged a development application for demolition of the existing buildings and construction of a new building at 283287 Liverpool St.

Located between the heritage-listed Pickled Frog backpackers accommodation and heritage-listed Georgian townhouses, the car yard site would be redeveloped into a six-storey building with 25 units, each with a private courtyard or deck and arranged around a central courtyard.

The building would feature mostly one and two-bedroom apartments. plus one threebedroom apartment. A report by All Urban Planning principal Frazer Read said the complex aimed to “reflect a contemporary ambition for sustainable inner-city living”. “The application has been carefully designed to transition between the CBD core, fringe and the adjoining residential area to the northwest, and will provide a positive contribution to the city,” Mr Read wrote.

A design statement by local firm Jaws Architects said the proposal had the potential to “drive future development at this upper end of Liverpool Street, bringing all the amenity benefits of well-designed inner-city living to this fringe of town”.

“This approach will repair and enliven the streetscape without unreasonably dominating or adversely impacting on the cultural values of the adjacent places,” the statement said.

Another Giameos development was unanimously approved by Hobart City Council at a special meeting held last night.

The development, at the former K&D timber yard at 90 Melville St, will feature 55 apartments along with commercial tenancies.