A nine-storey apartment block is planned for Gladstone Avenue, backing onto the rail line.
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The complex is located at 17-19 Gladstone Avenue on the intersection with Rowland Avenue and across the road from the nine-storey Vantage development.
The proposed block will include 36 apartments, in a mix of studio, two and three-bedroom units, and a swimming pool on the first level.
Each of the 36 apartments will include a balcony.
Parking for 39 cars - 31 for residents and eight for visitors - 15 bicycles and three motorbikes will be included in the basement level of the $9 million development.
There is a house and a business located on the block, which would be demolished to make way for the nine-storey block - which will be smaller than the 32-metre height limit for the area.
The development application states the Gladstone Avenue area is "earmarked for significant renewal and revitalisation".
"The site is located close to the commercial core and Wollongong rail station, so the context for this proposal is highly amenable and convenient to retail, commercial, educational and hospital facilities," the development application stated.
"As such, it is ideally located for a residential project of this scale."
The application suggests the proximity to the rail line at the rear of the proposed development will not pose a problem, with measures to be undertaken to limit the effect of noise on residents in the complex.
"With regards to the east and rear boundary, the South Coast rail line is located close to ground level, and as you move vertically up the building, the impacts associated with this rail corridor are diminished/non-existent at the upper levels of the proposed development," the application stated.
There is an adjoining vacant block to the north which is not part of the development and is unlikely to be built on in the future as it is in a floodway.
Due to the existing flood conditions of that site, the complex has been set back 24 metres from the northern boundary.
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Glen Humphries
I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.
I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.
