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Plans for more than 300 new homes to be built on the edge of Exmouth have been given the go-ahead despite the scheme ‘lacking vision and being fit for the 20th, not 21st century.’ East Devon District Council’s planning committee on Wednesday morning almost unanimously backed the recommendation of officers to approve the scheme for the Goodmores Farm site at Hulham Road. Outline planning permission for the scheme was granted for up to 350 homes back in June 2018, which included only five per cent of the homes being affordable. And while councillors were upset with the lower than 25 per cent policy requirements, there was nothing they could do to change it as the principle of the development had previously been agreed.
Sydney ‘Pencil Tower’ to Be Australia’s Skinniest Skyscraper
A local development organisation has submitted plans for Australia’s skinniest tower in Sydney’s CBD.
With a frontage of just 6.4 metres wide, the hotel tower will stand at a height of 110 metres on Pitt Street.
Plans for the 31-storey building were designed by Durbach Block Jaggers architects following an international design competition. The selected design won over submissions from other shortlisted teams including Scott Carver, Sissons Architects, and SJB Architects.
The developer, led by Rino Criola, Campbell Duncan, and Ben Ingham, has enlisted Tricon Management Group to oversee the building of the slender tower. The 342 square metre site, currently occupied by a six-storey, 74-room boarding house, was acquired for $20 million in early-2019.
âPencil towerâ plan on Pitt Street the skinniest yet
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A super-skinny hotel tower, 33-storeys high and little more than six metres wide, could soon rise at the Haymarket end of Sydney, the latest and thinnest example yet of a so-called âpencil towerâ in Australia.
It is the first such pencil tower proposed for Sydney and one whose dimensions eclipse for slenderness two existing examples in Melbourne.
An artistâs rendering of what might become the countryâs most slender tower.Â
Super tall, and super thin, such towers are more likely to be found in New York and Hong Kong. But even in those cities, they are relatively rare beasts on the skyline, the result of fortuitous planning decisions combined with property market economics and the modern technology that keeps them upright.