Plans lodged for supermarket in Jan Juc

JAN Juc would get its first supermarket under a proposal now before the Surf Coast Shire.

Under the $10 million plan, a two-storey building with a supermarket and six dwellings would be constructed on vacant land at 24A Princes Terrace, close to the existing Jan Juc shops and behind The Beach Hotel.

The sloping block is the last vacant block of land in the Jan Juc commercial area.

According to the town planning report prepared by Context Planning for the shire, the development’s objective “has been to respond to a need in the community of additional commercial space to the local activity centre and to provide additional highquality choice of dwelling developments in this area of Jan Juc, which has excellent walkability to shops, open space, public transport and other commercial and community facilities”.

On the ground floor, the supermarket and bottle shop would cover a retail space of 845.64 square metres, accessible via independent lift access from a basement car parking area, and through the ground floor back of house area via staircase.

There will also be a dedicated pedestrian entrance that fronts the southern car parking area.

The first floor of the building will have six dwellings – four with two bedrooms, two with three bedrooms – and a small external communal space to the north.

There would be one level of basement car parking, comprising 23 retail spaces, eight resident spaces and one visitor space associated with the dwellings.

The bottle shop’s proposed opening hours are 9am to 11pm, Monday to Saturday; 10am to 11pm, on Sunday 12 noon to 11pm on Anzac Day; and no trading on Good Friday and

Christmas Day.

Context Planning state the building’s design has incorporated the fall of the site to create an appropriate built form, which would also lessen the overall heights and visual prominence of the development.

This would be complemented “with the natural construction materials and muted tones which visually complement the natural environment and landscape setting which will support Jan Juc’s local activity centre location”.

The planning application will be open for comment until Friday, March 15.

Head to surfcoast.vic.gov.au