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A 24-hour gym in Merewether and a new childcare centre in Adamstown are among development applications before Newcastle City Council.
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CWG Property has lodged plans for a 24-hour gym at the new Oceans Reach apartment complex on the corner of Llewellyn and Merewether Streets.
In Adamstown, a developer, Trevor Bice, has submitted a $2.3 million DA to build a long day care centre for up to 113 children.
The centre, which will have 33 parking spaces, is in a bush setting at the top end of Brunker Road, near the Pacific Highway.
Also in Brunker Road, developers have lodged modified plans for a five-storey, 20-unit development at No.106, one of a host of apartment complexes springing up in an area identified as an urban growth corridor.
In Albert Street, Islington, the curved-roof Islington RSL Memorial Hall will make way for eight three-storey townhouses under a $2.6 million plan lodged last week.
At The Junction, two developments barely metres apart reflect a shift towards higher population densities in Newcastle’s suburbs.
The two projects, both three storeys high, are at 12 Farquhar Street and on the corner of Kenrick and Farquhar streets.
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The council is also weighing up plans for eight three-storey townhouses on a steeply sloping block at 42-44 Grayson Avenue, Kotara.
At 256 Darby Street, opposite Howzat, Shaddock Architects have designed a distinctive eight-unit development for Aranik Investments.
Another eye-catching design at 285 Glebe Road, Merewether, comprises six three-bedroom units and a single one-bedroom unit.
Among DAs approved in the past month are $4.3 million modifications to a vacant building in the Steel River industrial estate at Mayfield West to house a new Grainery Christian Network church with a 585-seat auditorium.