Six years after the project was announced, NSW Government's Southern Regional Planning Panel has approved demolition work for a planned retirement home operated by Keyton and a research facility as part of the university's planned "health and wellbeing precinct".
The precinct aims to combine academic research and roughly 240 independent retirement dwellings in the same location. A childcare centre, shops and restaurants are also in the plan.
The Southern Regional Planning Panel approved the concept plan and what is called Stage 0 of the work.
The panel stated "the proposed development would deliver much-needed residential aged care, self-contained dwellings for seniors and people with a disability, and a centre-based childcare facility for the Illawarra region".
The concept plan provides an overall view of what is planned for the site and the approval does not permit any construction of buildings, which will have to go through a separate development application process.
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