Welcome to the BASScare Rochester Road Redevelopment community engagement hub.

Read about our proposed plans to redevelop 2-12 Rochester Road and 243-247 Canterbury Road Canterbury sites, which in the past provided accommodation and support services to retired nurses in the area, into new retirement living, residential aged care, community and public amenities including offices.

BASScare has released a draft masterplan for redeveloping the site.

During August and September, feedback on the draft masterplan was gathered through a public webinar and community drop-ins to inform a planning submission to the City of Boroondara.

Our in-house development team, along with our specialist architects and planners, have actively participated in this engagement process. We are now reviewing and revising the concept plans based on the feedback received and ongoing discussions with Council, relevant agencies, and neighbouring properties.

A summary of the key messages gathered from the community is now available in our Community Engagement Report.

Later this year, BASScare will submit a formal planning application to the City of Boroondara. We will update the community once the concept plans have been revised, showing how the feedback has influenced the project.

Our research has shown that there is an insufficient supply of retirement living and modern residential aged care accommodation for the ageing population of the area.

BASScare has resolved to redevelop the now unoccupied site as an integrated community.

BASScare (Boroondara Aged Services Society) has a long history in the community, beginning life in 1957 as the Canterbury Citizens Welfare Committee. It was formed by community members who recognised that the elderly who weren’t part of a mainstream church body often found themselves socially isolated and neglected, without access to any form of assistance. The principles that guided our inception are the same ones that drive us forward today.

The proposed redevelopment at Rochester Road is not our first large development. We have delivered major residential aged care and retirement living developments within the City of Boroondara including Hester Canterbury, 9 Chatham Rd, Canterbury and Morgan Glen Iris, 14 Elizabeth Street, Glen Iris.