Brisbane news live: Court fight over 17-storey Kangaroo Point tower
Plans for a 17-storey tower on a Kangaroo Point site only 11.5 metres wide are being challenged in court.
In December, Brisbane City Council approved the plans for 25 Pixley Street, which would see a rundown house replaced by seven multi-level apartments stacked on top of each other.
Owners and residents in the neighbouring Watermark Residences and Olims Apartments opposed the development application and have now appealed to the Planning and Environment Court.
The narrow site at Pixley Street in Kangaroo Point (left), where developers plan to build a 17-storey tower with seven multi-level apartments (right, as depicted from the CBD).
They argue the tower, which fronts the Riverwalk, is “beyond what the community would expect for development of the land”. It would also cost them their views, sunlight, privacy and general amenity, and undermine the heritage-listed former Travelodge building next door at Olims.
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“The proposed development is of a height, bulk and scale that does not achieve the intended outcome and amenity of the neighbourhood plan area and exceeds development parameters set out in the planning scheme in respect of setbacks, site cover and height,” the appeal states.
Developers purchased the site, not far from the Kangaroo Point Bridge and with views of the river and CBD, for $8 million in November 2022. They originally wanted to build a 23-storey tower with 11 apartments.
The amended and approved plans have a communal wellness centre and pool on the lowest level, 24 car parks on the podium levels, and a roof terrace and pool at the top for the exclusive use of the penthouse occupants.
