Plans for hundreds of new apartments and more than a dozen new shops to be built on the former Dwyers Holden site have been given the official go-ahead by the Joint Regional Planning Panel.
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The residential and commercial complex - known as The Crown - involves 14 ground floor retail tenancies fronting Crown, Corrimal and Burelli streets, as well as 317 units spread across four towers which range from nine to 15 storeys high.
A series of townhouses will also be built around a four-level parking station.
Approving the proposal at a meeting on Tuesday, panel members praised the developer’s contextual studies showing how the buildings would fit into the city.
They also said they were comfortable with the plan’s ‘‘quite large’’ departure from Wollongong’s floor space ratio controls, as it was primarily related to car parking on the site.
‘‘I think the design .. is an appropriate response to the site and will provide much needed housing the Wollongong CBD,’’ panel member Alison McCabe said.
Mr Daoud said he looked forward to being able to develop the ‘‘beautiful site in Wollongong, which is also quite central’’.
