132938-1 Application for a minor change to a development approval (s78-PA) 2018-11-27 · 132008.1128.02

  3.1 Yield and Uses
Table 1 below identifies the existing and proposed yield and uses:
                            Table 1: Comparison of Approved and Proposed Yields

Use                         Approved*                     Proposed                 Difference

Residential Aged Care 96 aged care beds                   96 aged care beds        -
(RAC)
                      2 respite beds                      0 respite beds           Less 2 respite beds

Retirement Village          20 serviced apartments        0 serviced apartments    Less 20 serviced apartments

                            54 independent living         53 ILUs                  Less 1 ILU
                            units (ILUs)
                            (single storey villas)

                            54 independent living         69 ILAs                  Plus 15 ILAs
                            apartments (ILAs)                                      (Including 15 apartments which
                                                                                   were previously approved in the
                                                                                   location of the 20 ‘serviced
                                                                                   apartments’)

Central Community           1,017m2                       973m2                    Less 44m2
Facility

*As per original approval October 2008, not extension approval dated November 2017 which had resulted in the loss of
three ILUs (51 ILUs) due to bushfire constraints

Conversion of Serviced Apartments to ILAs
The table above demonstrates that the 20 serviced apartments approved above the central community
facility are proposed to be reduced to a yield of 15 and converted to ILAs. This is as a result of a change in
care model over the past 10 years whereby serviced apartments are no longer required as a specific product
as per the following:
        In-home care has replaced the need for serviced apartments. BlueCare (and other providers) are
         able to deliver care to residents of the ILA’s in their home whereas previously, residents that required
         a ‘low care option’, i.e. the serviced apartments, were located in one area only. BlueCare can now
         effectively deliver that ‘low care’ option to all residents throughout the retirement village. So whilst
         BlueCare are technically removing 20 serviced apartments it can be argued that we are in effect
         enabling up to 122 retirement dwellings, with up to two residents in each unit the same level of
         service so the use is not being lost or removed from the development, it is just being delivered via a
         different model. Low care is provided on a user needs and provides service directly into their
         existing accommodation allowing for couples to remain together and residents to age in place for
         longer.
        The RAC accommodation is soley for ‘High care’ wherein the average age upon entry is currently 82
         years old and residents are no longer able to look after themselves in their own accommodation.
        It is our opinion that the conversion of serviced apartments to ILAs constitutes a minor change to the
         proposal as the ILU / ILA residents of the retirement can elect to have some level of care /
         assistance provided or are able to request no assistance whatsoever– similar to that of a serviced
         apartment 10 years ago. We also note that the number of dwellings has not increased and that the




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