A new development in Auburn Street is aiming to be the tallest tower in the Wollongong CBD.
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Right now, the tallest development is the 21-storey Signature in Regent Street at 75 metres.
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But a development application has been lodged with Wollongong that would better that.
The application wants council to approve a 24-storey mixed use development at the city end of Auburn Street - which would reach 88 metres into the sky.
That would make it the tallest building in the city - at least until the WIN Grand and its 117.8-metre, 38-storey tower at the corner of Burelli and Atchison streets gets the nod.
The application considered the height suitable for the area, which has a nine-storey mixed use development just to the north and another 10-storey development to the south.
"The proposed bulk and scale of this building is considered appropriate for this city centre location and will not detrimentally affect the visual appearance of the area," the application stated.
"The overall height, floor space ratio and form of the development is consistent with expected future desired character strategies for the area."
The 24-storey tower would be located at 4 Auburn Street - now the site of an Asian grocery.
The ground floor will have three commercial spaces - one of those a cafe - with a 36-room hotel on levels one and two.
From the third floor up will be all residential apartments - 59 in all.
There will be basement parking, with access from Auburn Street, for 97 vehicles.
Twenty-one of those spaces would be dedicated to hotel guests and staff with 67 spaces for apartment residents and guests.
There is no parking reserved for staff or visitors to any of the three commercial sites.
The plans also show 27 bicycle spots and five for motorcycles.
"The proposed mixed use hotel and residential development," the application stated, "will ... provide Wollongong City with a high-quality hotel to support local tourism, ground-level businesses to support activation of the streetscape and a diverse range of residential types in a location that is well serviced by public transport."
According to a traffic report lodged as part of the development application, the proposed tower would add an extra 28 vehicle trips per hour with no substantial effects to the nearby intersections.
"Modelling of this increase demonstrates no change in the level of service and minor increases in average delay of the key intersections," the traffic report noted.
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