Otherplaces has been granted resource consent by the Dunedin City Council to construct a three-storey commercial and residential building at the corner of Filleul and Hanover Sts.
The development, to be known as “Hanover Place”, is described on the company’s website as providing an “alternative to traditional student accommodation”.
The ground floor would comprise three small commercial units as well as communal facilities for a total of 16 upstairs studio apartments, a report said.
A kitchen, laundry, lounge, toilets, bike storage, refuse storage and storage lockers would all be located on the ground floor.
The first and second levels would each contain eight apartments.
Otherplaces director Dylan Cazemier said it was now creating a build-to-rent product as opposed to build-to-sell and would be targeted at students looking for “premium accommodation”.
The 16 residential units would be socially connected with common space but private with their own studio rooms.
Building would start next year and the apartments would be for lease from January 2027, Mr Cazemier said.
Resource consents were already issued for the project, in 2022, which had neither lapsed nor been surrendered, the report said.
The development had earlier been proposed as five storeys with a total of 141sq m of commercial space on the ground floor and one- and two-bedroom apartments between the first and fourth floors.
The exterior design had also changed from what was initially planned, which the company’s website states was designed by an award-winning Melbourne-based architecture firm in collaboration with a local partner.
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