The village operator’s plans to build four five-storey buildings plus a resident clubhouse and health and wellbeing services with 280 apartments next to its Pines Shopping Centre in Doncaster East had been knocked back in May over the carpark design and a lack of building setbacks.

Now the application has been approved after “compulsory mediation”, with Stockland increasing the number of public car parks and agreeing to dedicate 5% of the apartments to affordable housing.

 

Stockland has 65 retirement villages and more than 12,000 residents across Australia.

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