Hundreds more homes will be built in north Orange if plans lodged to clear a 35 hectare industrial site near Charles Sturt University go ahead.
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A development application with Orange City Council proposes demolishing all the buildings on the former abattoir site on Leeds Parade and next to the railway line.
The current DA only includes the $1.2 million demolition work.
Demolition of these buildings is proposed to enable the future residential development of the land
- DA to Orange council
However plans lodged with council in 2019 to re-zone the land from industrial to residential stated up to 450 houses could be built on the site.
The current DA for the Rosedale Gardens Estate work said the site had been closed since 2010 with the land now re-zoned for "environmental living, large-lot rural residential and public recreation purposes".
It said the site was near the north Orange shopping centre, just one kilometre from the developed-edge of the city and only five kilometres from the Orange CBD.
The work would involve demolishing the former abattoir's processing facility, facilities area, cool rooms, two dwellings and other remnants from the industrial operations.
"The demolition of these buildings is proposed to enable the future residential development of the land," it said. "It is intended the site be further subdivided for the purposes of residential development in line with the zoning of the land.
"Building materials would be removed from the site for reuse or disposal as appropriate, with some material retained on site."
That included concrete which could be crushed and used for future road construction.
Material to be removed includes an amount of asbestos from several areas.
"It is anticipated that the demolition work would require an average of 8-12 vehicle movements per day for a period of approximately 8-12 weeks," it said.
"It is anticipated that on site plant would include tippers, truck and trailer combinations, front end loaders, excavators and concrete crushers," the DA states.
The shift to a residential future for the site follows attempts to attract businesses to take over the buildings for other industrial uses.
In a letter to the editor of the Central Western Daily in 2017, Bob Healy said his family enterprise had been seeking a new tenant for the site which he said had the capacity to create 700 jobs.
However, now residential development would help ease the shortage of housing in Orange which has seen property prices rises and the cost of rents soar.
The DA for the demolition work is on public exhibition at the council until Monday, August 23.
The public can make submissions about the work which will be considered by council staff before a decision is made on the DA.
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