Is this what you want?
for Gladesville village centre
Submissions have closed...but it's not over yet!
The public exhibition period for Hunters Hill Council’s new plan for the Gladesville Village Centre ‘Key Site’ finished on the 24th of April, but the process continues and there will be more you can do if you think Gladesville deserves better than this.
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In the next step, Council staff will review all the submissions received then prepare a report on this and other inputs from external agencies. The report will also include recommendations for further action so that Council can make a decision on how to proceed . This report will be presented to Council at their meeting on 22 June 2026. Councillors will then vote on whether to proceed with the Proposal, amend the Proposal or not proceed. Members of the public will be able to attend the Council meeting in person or watch a live stream.
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We will keep you posted on any developments that occur before then.
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What is Council proposing?
Council has abandoned its previous Gladesville Masterplan for the town centre area from Pittwater Rd to Junction St, which went on public exhibition in 2021. Over $1 million of ratepayers’ money was spent on this Masterplan. Their new Planning Proposal is for just one site (the Key Site) including the Gladesville Shopping Village shopping centre. This site is almost wholly owned by the developer, Third.i Group.
Council’s new plan proposes an increase in floor space ratio (FSR) for the Key Site from 3:1 in the previous Masterplan to 4:1, which allows higher density development with 522 apartments on the site. It also proposes an increase in building heights of up to 70 m, allowing towers up to 19 stories. For reference, Gladesville Bridge is 45m!
What are the major issues with the plan?
Council has not listened to the community. Following exhibition of the previous Masterplan in 2021, the community feedback was that proposals of even 15 stories were too high. Council then resolved to investigate lower height options. They did not do this and now they are presenting us with increased height options.
The scale of the development is just too big – it’s cramming too many apartments onto one site. The huge towers create problems with overshadowing of neighbours, including Gladesville Public School. They will be massively out of scale with the surrounding area and will set a precedent for more of the same in the future. The excessive number of apartments will increase traffic and put even more pressure on public transport.
Too big… and it may get even bigger!
*Not only is the proposed development already too big, it’s possible we could end up with even more apartments and bigger towers if the developer decides to apply for the up to 30% bonus FSR and height increases offered under the NSW Government’s Affordable Housing incentive scheme. That could result in towers of up to 91 m (28-30 stories)!! Note that there is no provision for affordable housing in the current plan, which we think means it is highly likely the developer will pursue the bonus 30% uplift.
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See our Issues page for more detail on these and other issues.
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Where can I view the plans?
You can view the Council’s plans via our Planning Documents page.
Please note that the images in the documents currently on exhibition are just hypotheticals at the moment. This phase of the process is about Council getting the planning controls changed to allow such an oversized development. The developer’s actual plans for designs of the buildings and open spaces come later.
The Key Site.