Carnegie
Rosstown Road, Carnegie
About the project
An architect-designed residential development that will deliver 58 modern, energy-efficient dwellings in the leafy, family-friendly suburb of Carnegie, 12kms southeast of Melbourne’s CBD.
The development will provide safe and secure social homes, with abundant access to public transport, schools, hospitals, shops and services.
The unique design, conceived by the renowned Breathe Architecture team, with landscaping by John Patrick Landscape Architects, places 29 one-bedroom, 27 two-bedroom and 2 three-bedroom apartments across an L-shaped building that steps down from five-storeys to four-storeys over the site.
The development will be built to Liveable Housing Australia Silver Level standards and achieve a minimum 7-Star energy rating, helping residents reduce energy costs while improving comfort and sustainability.
The design keeps and celebrates an existing mature tree and creates a north-facing communal open space around it for residents to share. Generous setbacks along the street and the east boundary allow for further high-quality landscape. The basement level includes 34 resident car parking spaces and integrated services and waste facilities. The ground floor allows for 20 bicycle parking spaces.
The homes will be offered to people on low and moderate incomes who are registered with the Victorian Housing Register. On completion, Housing Choices will manage the property and tenancies and develop community engagement and placemaking programs to create an inclusive, integrated community connected with the surrounding neighbourhood.
The proposed development is currently being considered by the Department of Transport and Planning (DTP). More information will be available on the DTP website here.
Housing Choices is an award-winning, national community housing provider and developer, with extensive experience in affordable and social housing tenancy and property management, and community building. It has been providing quality homes for people in need for over 20 years. For information on similar Housing Choices projects, visit our project pages here:
What is community housing
Community housing is owned or managed by non-government, not-for-profit, registered housing agencies like Housing Choices Australia. We partner with a range of support services and community organisations, enabling us to meet the immediate and longer-term needs of our residents, so that they can thrive and maintain long-term tenancies.
The community housing sector is a long standing and vital component of the Australian housing system and receives government funding to help address affordable housing shortages across the country. Over 100,000 Australian households currently live in community housing-owned and managed homes with subsidised rent, based either on a discount to the market rent or as a percentage of household income.
Social housing involves some degree of rental subsidy and is an umbrella term for public or community housing. While community housing is run by not for profits like Housing Choices Australia, public housing is owned by the state governments. Community housing providers are regulated by the state and hold specialist expertise in property development, property management, tenancy management and community development.
Make an inquiry about a development
"*" indicates required fields