A five-storey medical centre valued at $5.13 million is being proposed for the Morris Place Shopping Centre in Innaloo, with plans to enhance local healthcare access.
Development Details
Developers are looking to build the centre on a site now occupied by a music school and a former cafe, next door to the Vinnies Innaloo store. A development application for the project has been lodged with the City of Stirling and is open for public comment.
The plans detail a pharmacy and a small shop or cafe on the ground floor, a radiology centre spanning the ground and first floors, a general practice clinic on the second floor, and medical administration and specialist consulting rooms on the third floor. Plant rooms, equipment, and building services are proposed for the fourth storey, with the overall floor space set to span more than 1403 square metres.
A total of 14 health practitioners are proposed to be on site at any one time. If the application is approved, the pharmacy would operate from 8am to 6.30pm, seven days a week. The GP and radiology services would operate from 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm on Saturdays, and 10am to 4pm on Sundays.
Community Benefits
In the development application, TBB Planning, on behalf of Jakaby Pty Ltd, said it believed the multi-disciplinary health facility would improve local healthcare access for the Innaloo community, as well as deliver economic benefits to the area.
“The proposal will support the delivery of medical services to residents and families within the Innaloo community and surrounding areas by increasing local healthcare choice and convenience and reducing the need to travel to other centres for routine and specialist appointments,” the application states.
“The development will support the ongoing activation and economic viability of the Morris Place Neighbourhood Centre by introducing a contemporary, community-serving use, attracting additional visitors and foot traffic, which will generate flow-on benefits for existing businesses within the centre.”
Parking Arrangements
No additional carpark bays are proposed to come with the development, with the developers claiming this is justified by the “unique historical parking arrangements in the Morris Place Neighbourhood Centre”. However, the application said it identifies an opportunity to increase supply “through the formalisation and line-marking of parallel parking within the northern laneway, Blackgum Lane”.
Public consultation on the proposal closes on July 11, before the Inner Metro Development Assessment Panel will determine the application.
