Plans for a $128 million student accommodation tower in Northbridge have been revealed, with developers calling for public feedback on the proposed 77m building.
The 720-bed development, proposed for 97 and 99 Stirling Street, would have 240 studio apartments across a tower designed to cater to demand for purpose-built student housing in inner Perth.
Plans submitted by TBB Planning on behalf of GES Real Australia propose a building with 40 double-twin studios and 80 four-cluster units, alongside communal dining and study areas.
The development would also include an operations office, storage and mail rooms.
Located about 600m from Edith Cowan University’s new City Campus and 300m from the Perth Cultural Centre, the tower would sit alongside existing accommodation and residential buildings.
The Yugo Student Accommodation tower, also known as the Boulevard, is on the south-western side of the site, and the Oracle Apartments residential tower is to the northeast.
The proposal includes five carparking bays, two motorcycle bays and 66 bicycle spaces.
“The nature of student accommodation development being a temporary accommodation for mostly international or regional students, it is suggested that the students accommodated are unlikely to own cars to keep parked at the site,” the proposal stated.
The proposal also noted that there were “convenient bus and train routes providing access to educational facilities and major attractions within the Perth metropolitan region”.
Perth and McIver train stations are both within 400m of the development, which provides access to all train lines in and around Perth.
The plans state the development would “help to complete the recently established tower form along Stirling Street and contribute to the emerging trend of student-focused development within the Perth city centre”.
The site is within the Frame area of the Northbridge Special Entertainment Precinct, where the application seeks extraordinary discretion from strict low-frequency noise attenuation requirements.
The planning documents state the development cannot meet the relevant standards without incorporating a secondary facade.
Public comment on the development is open until November 15.