Woolooware Shores Retirement Village has begun expansion plans further across Woolooware Bay, in efforts to develop adjoining former industrial land. The proposed expansion has potential to provide an extra 90 independent living units to the growing community of 228 units, in eight four storey ‘apartment style’ buildings.

Situated on Alexander Avenue, Taren Point, the village expansion plans encompass an aged care facility and a range of facilities, including an indoor, heated swimming pool.

Parent village provider Anglicare recently lodged a development application (DA) to construct a two lane road with a path and a bridge across a canal to provide vehicular and pedestrian access to the new site.

The DA proposed preliminary structural work including demolition to be completed on the vacant land, rehabilitation work to be conducted on the existing canal and adjacent land areas to restore existing native vegetation, and, showed that there was great demand for seniors housing in the shire with the land holding potential to meet the incline.

‘‘Based on the current population being approximately 220,000, a further 44,000 people are likely to require seniors housing accommodation,’’ the submission said.

The submission further stated, allowing seniors housing on the adjacent site would ‘‘generate significant employment opportunities when compared with the site’s long-term status as vacant industrial land’’.

An Anglicare spokeswoman said, “We look forward to commenting when the DA process has been completed.”