Content area
Full Text
Lend Lease has submitted its revised Concept Plan for Sydney's Barangaroo South to the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Planning and Environment, with the new proposal moving James Packer's $1.5 billion Crown hotel resort from its approved position on a harbour pier to the no rth-west corner of the Barangaroo South site.
Known as Modification 8 (Mod 8), the revised proposal was conceived in response to the NSW Government's request in 2011 that Lend Lease relocate the landmark hotel to a new on-land location, and its lodgement marks the end of a dispute between Lend Lease and the Barangaroo Delivery Authority .
The relocation of Crown hotel has led to a number of other changes to the master plan, including reducing the total number of proposed buildings at Barangaroo South to 13, and increasing the maximum Gross Floor Area (GFA) of the site by nine per cent to 535,186sqm to accommodate the additional hotel rooms of the proposed Crown Sydney hotel resort.
Other revisions to the master plan include changing the heights of...