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Shopping centre plans approved

Posted on December 23, 2008, 12:12pm

Mount Gambier City Council’s planning assessors have given complete planning approval for the multi-million dollar bulky goods centre proposed for Penola Road.

Council’s independent Development Assessment Panel has rubber-stamped a request to slightly vary the original application, which will see the bulky goods centre scaled back from a gross leaseable floor area of nearly 15,000sq metres to around 13,400sq metres.

While planning approval has now been given, the developer — Saracen Properties — will now need to lodge building plans with council, as well as gain final development approval for its complex.

The company’s subsidiary Seaport Ltd — owned by West Australian property magnate Luke Saraceni — recently spent nearly $8m purchasing the Penola Road site for the development.

Fabcot Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Woolworths, also recently spent more than $3.3m on adjacent land for a supermarket and Big W development.

Mount Gambier City Council operational services director Daryl Sexton said yesterday the original planning application left out a small part for approval.

He said the developers lodged a request to slightly reduce the floor space and alter the shape of the shopping centre.

“The footprint shape of the building reserve has been altered,” Mr Sexton said.

He said the development was still classified as a bulky goods centre and there had been no significant change to the proposal.

But he said no works on the site could begin until the developers lodged plans for building approval.

Mr Sexton said development approval would also be needed before works began on the Penola Road site.

He said the company had yet to indicate when it was expected to lodge its building plans for assessment.

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