The University plans to create a benchmark residential development that is sustainable and will showcase best-practice planning principles at all levels.
The development will create single residential lots in addition to grouped housing sites, with a total of approximately 300 dwellings.
This will provide a unique opportunity for the wider community to source new housing opportunities of a smaller lot size in the Western Suburbs.
The proposal represents a rare opportunity to achieve a diversity of housing types through a range of residential densities. This meets the objectives of the State Government Study of Land Use Patterns and Residential Densities in the Western Suburbs (July 2008) that states:
The City of Nedlands has the lowest density housing in the Western Suburbs. As a consequence, the range of housing choice available is also the lowest. Single dwellings on large lots are the overwhelming predominant housing form in the City.
The design principles for the residential development include: