A significant rezoning proposal has been lodged to more than double the height limit at 150 Day Street in Sydney, on the eastern edge of the Darling Harbour precinct.
The 2,279 sqm site is occupied by Park Royal – an 11-storey hotel constructed in the late 1980s. The proposal seeks to allow a building height of 85 metres and a floor space ratio of 13.5:1, up from the current 45-metre limit and 9.9:1 floor space cap.
The uplift is tied to a tightly framed site-specific clause. Any development relying on the increased controls must substantially retain the existing structural frame, including columns, beams and slabs, and must not introduce any additional overshadowing to Sydney Square, Town Hall Steps or the future Town Hall Square.
Residential and service apartments are expressly prohibited under the uplift. Instead, over 30,000 sqm of hotel floor space is allowed – around 8,000 sqm more than what the site can currently achieve.
The reference scheme envisages the refurbishment of the existing hotel with an additional hotel stacked above it, operating as two brands with shared back-of-house functions.
The site sits at a complex urban junction, bounded by Day Street, Bathurst Street and Sands Street, and immediately adjacent to the Western Distributor and Cross City Tunnel.
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