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Beaufort Landing by Polygon Homes is offering “seaside-inspired” townhomes with access to the exclusive Hampton Club amenities
What’s happening in Ladner and Tsawwassen? S
outh Delta may be less busy than its northern counterpart in terms of high-rise development, but it still has some big residential projects under way. While Mayor George Harvie’s eye is firmly fixed on the “ripe for development” Scott Road area of North Delta, here’s an update of what’s going on in Ladner and Tsawwassen in terms of new home construction.
Ladner Polygon Homes continues to build out its Hampton Cove masterplan at Marina Garden Estates, with the launch of its latest project, Beaufort Landing. This is a collection of waterfront townhomes, comprising three- and four-bedroom homes in a variety of floorplan options, priced from $698,800, and designed using seaside-inspired architecture. Located between a marina and a golf course, the new neighbourhood is surrounded by walking and biking trails, along with a new riverside park. Beaufort Landing residents will also enjoy access to The Hampton Club, a clubhouse boasting over 12,000 square feet of resort-style amenities. This project will be followed by Pilothouse at Hampton Cove, a development of waterside condo
residences that will also enjoy the Hampton Club facilities. There are also some smaller residential projects proposed for Ladner, including a condo development and separate townhouse project on 51A Street.
Tsawwassen One of the biggest projects in the area is, of course, Southlands, which will include 950 homes and about 80,000 square feet of commercial space. The development aims to combine a close-knit residential neighbourhood with an agricultural, rural lifestyle, including a central village market and craft brewery. Century Group gave the City of Delta 425 acres, about 80 per cent of the total property, to be used for agriculture, natural habitat, public open space and greenways. VP of development Bob Ransford told REW Homes that construction has started on the first phase of 70 homes, a mix of townhouses, detached homes and courtyard cottages, which will be sold on completion in 2020. Even more changes in Tsawwassen will be seen when Southlands developer Century Group submits its masterplan for the revitalized Tsawwassen Town Centre Mall. Delta council asked Century Group in
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October 2018 to withdraw its phase one rezoning application, a six-storey building with ground-floor commercial space and rental units above, and submit a masterplan for the entire mall redevelopment instead. Ransford said that the masterplan for the eight-
acre site will start undergoing public consultation this spring. In a smaller project, Maple Leaf Homes is currently planning a 32-unit townhouse project on 8A Avenue in Tsawwassen, across from South Delta Secondary. The development was originally conceived as a 38home project but then reduced. Panel members at a fall 2018 meeting discussed the latest proposal that has been winding its way through the city’s advisory committees, but has received complaints that the two- and three-storey project is an “extreme departure” from the existing neighbourhood.
Land in limbo A townhouse expansion planned for Tsawwassen Springs remains in limbo following an Agricultural Land Commission rejection last year. Following a public hearing in 2017, Delta council granted conditional approval for 60 townhouses, a tennis court and other amenities immediately west of the current development. The 6.3-acre site is in the Agricultural Land Reserve but not actively farmed. The latest plan would have seen one sub-divided lot with the new homes excluded from the ALR, while the other, to merge with the golf course, would have received non-farm use status – both requiring ALC approval. The requests were referred to the ALC in July 2017 but in May of last year the commission only approved the non-farm use application, denying the ALR exclusion. Project manager Ross Clouston told Real Estate Weeklyʼs sister paper the Delta Optimist that the application remains active, but thereʻs been no change in the projectʼs stalled status and theyʼre not clear yet on how theyʼll proceed. - With files from Sandor Gyarmati, Delta Optimist
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