Tony Poli-led Aigle Royal Group will build a shopping complex in Hammond Park after a development panel approved the $8.5 million proposal.
Tony Poli-led Aigle Royal Group will build a shopping complex in Hammond Park after a development panel approved the $8.5 million proposal.
The proposed Hammond Park neighbourhood centre on a 2.78-hectare site on Wattleup Road includes a main shopping centre comprising a Woolworths supermarket, a liquor store, retail, and food and beverage tenancies.
Two fast food outlets tenancies have also been proposed to cover two pad sites of 300 square metres each, as part of the centre.
The Metro Outer Joint Development Assessment Panel today approved Aigle Group’s application at its meeting, but with some concerns over the noise and other pending assessments.
JDAP presiding member Gene Koltasz said there were concerns over the location of the shopping centre but supported the City of Cockburn’s recommendation to approve the build.
“I think that it’s gone through a statutory process and unfortunately there’s not much to be done about that,” he said at the meeting.
Cockburn councillor and JDAP member Chontelle Stone was one of the two votes in opposition of Aigle Group’s proposed neighbourhood centre.
“I don’t want to make a decision without all the information on the table,” she said.
Town planner Rowe Group, on behalf of Aigle, proposed to remove a condition imposed by the city to provide an acoustics and additional noise reports.
However, JDAP deputy presiding member Karen Hyde said she was more comfortable with the city's recommended conditions for approval compared to the alternatives suggest by the applicant.
Aigle Group engaged architects Hames Sharley to design the Wattleup Road neighbourhood centre.
