A Hobart car park is set to make way for apartments, offices and shops after councillors gave the green light to a multi-million-dollar development.
Hobart City Council’s planning committee unanimously approved the $10 million mixed-use project at 165 Brisbane Street on Wednesday.
The development will deliver a five-storey building featuring ground-floor retail, office space and residential apartments including luxury penthouses.
The third floor will house five apartments – four with two bedrooms and one with three. On the top level, three three-bedroom penthouse apartments are planned.
Councillor Bill Harvey called it “a very good development for the site” and praised its “well-resolved design”.
Councillor Ryan Posselt backed the project but said it could have been taller.
“The development is exactly the type of development that we need in this city,” Posselt said.
“The only thing I would have liked to have seen is one floor higher,” he said, encouraging the developer to consider “an extra floor of residential”.
Councillor John Kelly said the project would fill “a big void” in the area that is right now a carpark.
“Hopefully this will light the fuse on developing that corridor … and that commercial end of town,” Kelly said.
No objections were lodged against the proposal.
