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Old North Perth Brownes Dairy factory to be transformed into $35 million mixed-use development


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Old North Perth Brownes Dairy factory to be transformed into $35 million mixed-use development

An old Brownes Dairy factory in North Perth will soon be transformed into disability accommodation, a gym and a brewery after State planners narrowly approved a $35 million development on Charles Street.

The eight-storey development at 299 Charles Street was approved by the Metro Inner Development Assessment Panel 3-2 after DAP members voted against a recommendation to refuse the project because of concerns relating to amenity, height, plot ratio and bulk.

The decision means the 109-year-old building — which treated, bottled and delivered Brownes milk until the 1970s — will be demolished and replaced with a gym, brewery, restaurant and almost 200 dwellings.

The building is not on the City of Vincent’s Municipal Heritage Inventory.

The development, tabled by Space Collective Architects, will also include 15 two-bedroom NDIS dwellings and more than 300 bicycle, motorcycle and car parking bays.

It will be owned by Lam Family Investments.

Camera IconThe 109-year-old building once treated, bottled and delivered Brownes milk until the 1970s. Credit: City of Vincent Local History Centre PH00175 (donated by former Brownes Archive)

“It is well established by the Minister for Housing that WA is experiencing a housing crisis,” Lam Family Investments representative Fiona Atkins said.

“This proposal seeks to relieve that pressure. This development is serving the most vulnerable members in our community who are relying on proposals such as this to be supported.

“We acknowledge the plot ratio variation, however plot ratio is a crude measure that doesn’t correlate with amenity impact. When considering this application in totality … the social outcomes outweigh the technical variations, which have no inappropriate impact on amenity.”

But Vincent city councillor Nicole Woolf said the development was “incompatible” with neighbouring streets and asked Space Collective Architects to go “back to the drawing board”.

“The western side of North Perth is significantly severed from the North Perth town centre by Charles Street and this development would not only bring new dwellings, but new businesses, people to support them, and much needed vibrancy to this part of North Perth,” she said.

“That being said, I do understand the city’s concerns stemming from the building height and setback … the lack of on-structure landscaping and incompatibility of the bulk and scale with (neighbouring) Albert and Kadina streets.

“To me, this doesn’t meet all the objectives and it isn’t the final design … I’d really like to see the application revisiting the transition to the west to ensure it is more respectful to the surrounding neighbours.”

Deputy presiding member Lee O’Donohue said the development was a “well-designed proposal”.

“Clearly eight storeys along Charles Street in this location is very acceptable and this is an area that does need reinvigoration,” she said. “I’m questioning the impact on amenity of this building on those two side streets, to be honest.

“But I think it’s such a good proposal; it’s providing a diversity of accommodation that we haven’t seen very much of today, it’s a rundown area. Charles Street has a high frequency bus route very close to the CBD … and I think it presents as a really well thought out, well designed proposal.”



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