Developer downsizes plans

Prince Henry Heights development scaled back in court process

THE developer of a controversial gated community on land at Charlmay St in Prince Henry Heights has reduced the scale of the development, according to documents filed in the Planning and Environment Court.

At a review hearing in the Planning and Environment Court in Brisbane last year, Judge Michael Rackemann ordered that developer ShangriLa International Holdings Pty Ltd was to file and serve an application for a minor change to the development application.

Further material filed in the court on March 14 shows plans for the proposed development have been reduced in scale, down from 40 townhouses to 32.

The plans also show the internal road proposed for the development has changed, resulting “in the need to alter the position and orientation of the dwelling’s pads”.

Those alterations have in turn resulted in an increase in overall height to some of the proposed townhouses, varying between 0.41m and 0.91, changes described in the court material as “not significant in the context of the site’s overall slope”.

Toowoomba Regional Council knocked-back Shangri-La International Holdings’ original development application in March 2018.

Shangri-La lodged an appeal against the decision shortly after.

The appeal will be mentioned for review on March 29.

Photo: Contributed UNDER APPEAL: A 3D rendering of what the proposed development at Prince Henry Heights would look like.