Over-55s apartments approved for Duncraig

A TWO-storey apartment development for over-55s has been approved for a vacant lot opposite Duncraig Shopping Centre.

The $2.5 million development at 57 Marri Road, between Marri Park and a vet hospital, proposes 10 units with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a study that could be used as a “home office or spare room for when grandchildren stay over” and private outdoor living spaces.

It also proposes to have 18 resident car parking bays, three visitor bays and four bicycle bays.

Owner Wei Duan, of Hanrise Pty Ltd and Tang Family Trust, told the Metro North-West Joint Development Assessment Panel the apartments would appeal to local residents wanting to sell their large family home and move into a “modern economic home”, with “low maintenance and secure” units allowing residents to travel more often.

He said the building had been designed to look like “two side-by-side townhouses” from Marri Road and the pedestrian accessway and to be “sympathetic to the existing builtform”.

“As a developer, we want the units to sell, be lived in and enjoyed,” Mr Duan said.