“Building a better store starts here” banners up around Coles Lindfield
The Coles Lindfield development is now underway! As reported earlier, Coles Lindfield has had a 2 part DA approved for apartments and a greatly increased floorspace supermarket approved. They have now begun at least Stage 1A which represents the first half of the DA.
Stage 1A diagram as per DA0197/18
The primary purpose of Stage 1A is to create a new roadway into the site, to give access to the school and in future become the primary access to the upper carpark of the new development. Confusingly, this stage doesn’t actually connect that roadway to anything. Instead, Stage 1B is a very small stage to connect this new roadway to Balfour St and the former end of Balfour Lane. Stage 2 is then the actual supermarket redevelopment.
The compromise is that a number of parking spaces have now been lost from the site, which won’t be replaced until the entire development is completed. The asphalt has already been ripped up over the last few days. This is not ideal given the Village Green carpark is yet to be finished, but given lockdown the demand for commuter parking is certainly lower than normal and so shouldn’t be a problem.
It remains to be seen if Stage 2 of the development quickly follows Stage 1 or not. Here’s hoping it does and it’s all completed before the Village Hub starts - of course it will!