St Mark’s Church – villas go on market
Deloraine’s St Mark’s Church parish council is building eight new villas on church land to be ready by August 2021. Image supplied
by Sharon Webb
TWO OF eight villas to be built by St Mark’s Anglican Church in Deloraine are already sold and the others are available for sale off the plan.
The project was established as a fundraiser to cover the church’s funding obligation to the National Redress Scheme for children sexually abused in institutions. The villas will be built on the land adjacent to the church.
Project manager Nigel Morrison said the parish council had contracted local firm Beardwood Pty Ltd to build the villas, working with Launceston’s CMK Architects.
The villas already have development approval from Meander Valley Council.
‘The build will take six months and we estimate they will be complete by around August 2021.’
The site on East Westbury Place historically was known as the Saleyards. Along with St Saviour’s Church in Meander, it was originally listed for sale by Tasmania’s Anglican Diocese to cover the parish’s obligation.
St Mark’s council paid the redress money out of parish funds to have time to make considered decisions about the land and St Saviour’s.
They decided to develop the Saleyards land and to consult the Meander community on the future of St Saviour’s Church.
The two-bedroom villas are the result of an innovative collusion between St Mark’s and Traders in Purple, the company behind Ridgeside Lane in Evandale and Kingston Park in Kingston.
Traders in Purple, along with Rytenskild Traffic Engineering, MRC Engineering, Lange Design, Michael Jirku Architecture, PDA Surveyors, have worked pro bono to deliver the project.
Traders in Purple director Charles Daoud said last year that he believes the project is sensitive to its surroundings and sense of place and will not visually impact St Mark’s Church.
‘The proposal respects the significant historic value to the point that the single-storey villas have been designed to retain important view corridors to the church.
Mr Morrison said minor design improvements had been made to the villas throughout the planning process
The roofs were steeper pitched and they had different windows. In the final design the villas have light wells to increase light and sun into them. The claddings have also been refined.’
The villas are being sold by Quamby View Real Estate in Deloraine.