THE region's seniors housing boom shows no signs of slowing down after plans for a $15 million development at Cardiff were lodged with Lake Macquarie council.
Planning company ADW Johnson submitted a development application for the Newcastle Street project on behalf of Oak Tree Retirement Villages late last week.
The proposal comprises 54 self-contained dwellings and associated amenities on a vacant 2.3 hectare parcel of land alongside the Sydney-Newcastle train line.
A planned village centre within the development comprises an outdoor gym, pool, activities green and communal recreation room.
The site is zoned medium-density residential, of which seniors housing is a permissible development.
Oak Tree operates an existing retirement village in Cardiff on Cypress Street, along with another village at Rutherford in the Hunter Valley.
The proposed Cardiff development continues a string of seniors living projects either approved or planned across the Hunter in recent years.
The Newcastle Herald reported in June that Lake Macquarie council alone had approved more than $744 million worth of seniors living developments in the past five years and was assessing another five projects worth a combined $184 million.
The council approved one of those, a $15 million seniors living project at West Wallsend, on Monday night.
The development will see 60 independent-living units built alongside an existing nine-hole golf course at Sugar Valley Lifestyle Estate.
The new units will be housed within five interconnected multi-storey buildings. An existing golf course clubhouse and car park will be demolished and the course realigned to make way for the development.
The estate already comprises 145 seniors dwellings.
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