This article is from the Australian Property Journal archive
DEVELOPER Orchard Piper has won its appeal to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT), and will keep the original height of its $400 million mixed-use development on a former Mercedes-Benz site in Melbourne’s ritzy Toorak.
Stonnington City Council issued a permit for the mixed-use development at 7-11A and 17-19 Carters Avenue in July but included a condition requiring the removal of two storeys, reducing the eight-storey project to six. Orchard Piper and NPACT – a partnership between Todd Nisbet and Jamie Packer – took the matter to VCAT, which has reinstated the original height.
Designed by Kerry Hill Architects (KHA), the project features 43 two-, three- and four-bedroom residences and commercial suites, as well as ground-floor restaurants and hospitality spaces, and boutique retail with a focus on health and medical uses.
Amenities will include full-time concierge services, a lap pool, gym, sauna and wellness spaces. The development will also integrate a new laneway that will become the porte cochère entrance to the private lobby.
Myles Baldwin Design is the landscape architect.
The 3,589 sqm site is one of the last key parcels of land to be developed in the area. It was picked up by Orchard Piper for $67 million in 2022.
“This project is now approved at a scale that allows us to deliver something truly exceptional for Toorak Village,” said Orchard Piper director Luke McKie.
“We have a very strong partnership with NPACT, which will enable this benchmark development to be realised quickly and with confidence.”
The Carters Avenue project will launch in mid-2025 with construction expected to commence late in the year.
Orchard Piper also has a $120 million high-end living and offices project close by at 109 Mathoura Road and 420-426 Toorak Road, in Toorak’s main retail precinct.
Orchard Piper’s two Toorak Village developments encompass around 5,000 sqm of prime land in the blue-ribbon locale and have a combined potential development value exceeding $550 million.
Orchard Piper’s collaboration with KHA extends to The Carter Building, featuring residences, a hotel and a spa on Melbourne’s St Kilda Road boulevard. Together, the trio of projects form a $1.1 billion pipeline scheduled for completion across the next five years.
