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For more than 100 years, Uniting has provided aged care and community services to the Waverley community. Building on this legacy, Uniting is proposing a major redevelopment of the Waverley War Memorial Hospital site, transforming it into a contemporary, connected seniors’ community that responds to changing care models, community expectations, and urban contexts. The proposal seeks to reinvent a historically fragmented estate into a cohesive, landscape-led precinct that integrates independent living, residential aged care, and community spaces within a highly sensitive inner-eastern Sydney setting.

The project will be constructed in four stages, with the upfront design for the whole site underway. The site will comprise facilities to cater for all levels of aged care from independent living units all the way up to high needs facilities. To complement the development, there are plans for a Childcare Facility and medical centre along with all the normal aged care facility inclusions such as restaurants, swimming pools, health studios and cinemas.

As BCA Consultant, MBC Group is supporting the project team through the planning and design phases of a complex State Significant Development, with a focus on achieving clear, coordinated, and defensible compliance outcomes.

Our involvement includes:
- Strategic NCC compliance advice across a mixed-use senior living and aged care development
- Interpretation of NCC provisions for ILUs, RACF accommodation, and shared community uses within a single integrated precinct
- Early identification of fire and life safety risks, including building classification, compartmentation, egress strategies, and interface conditions between uses
- Supporting the project team in aligning design intent with statutory requirements, while maintaining flexibility appropriate to an SSDA pathway

Working closely with TSA Riley and the broader consultant team, our role is to help ensure that compliance considerations are addressed early and pragmatically, reducing downstream risk as the project progresses through planning approval and into delivery.