FORMER CHANNEL 9 HQ PLAN APPROVED

Chrofi and McGregor Coxall’s masterplan for the $400 million redevelopment of Channel Nine’s former studios in Sydney’s Willoughby into a residential complex has been approved. The current masterplan is an amended version of an earlier plan for a maximum of 400 dwellings on the site which was approved in 2014 but faced community backlash before the site was sold. The curent approved proposal includes 460 dwellings, a “village square,” a “village courtyard” and “village green” comprising 1,700 square metres of sloping lawn. In all, the current masterplan includes 8,396 square metres of public open space, compared with 3,178 square metres in the previous scheme.