Could this be a chance to dip a very small toe into the Peppermint Grove lifestyle?
The Shire of Peppermint Grove is considering development applications for what will likely become the smallest freestanding properties in the suburb of Perth’s rich and famous.
A recently sold property at the corner of Johnston and Solomon streets already has approval for demolition and subdivision into two lots of 374sqm and 385sqm.
The Shire of Peppermint Grove says both will be even smaller than the area’s littlest existing R20-zoned lot, understood to be 468sqm.
Peppermint Grove planners say it would now be unreasonable to expect a developer to fully comply with shire planning policies or meet community design expectations on lots so small.
Detailed development plans have not been released but the shire council has been recommended to next week approve two units — technically a grouped dwelling — across the two new green title lots.
The land, including an original 3×1 rental that will be bulldozed, sold for $2.2 million in December.
Johnston Street is one of the tiny shire’s most prominent streets, running from Stirling Highway to the water’s edge at Freshwater Bay and home to St Hilda’s Anglican Girls School.
The new homes will be just 850m from the girls’ school.
Another house two doors down on Johnston Street is also slated for demolition, but shire planners are even less impressed by plans for the new build and have recommended that application be refused by the council on February 27.