Billbergia-linked 352-apartment Rhodes towers sit at EIS stage

A proposal for two mixed-use towers and about 352 apartments at Leeds and Averill Street, Rhodes, on land The Urban Developer has linked to Billbergia, sits at the environmental impact statement stage on the NSW Major Projects Portal, according to the State Significant Development record checked on 1 November 2026.

Why it matters

For Rhodes builders and agents, the record means no new supply from this stage before an exhibition and determination that have no published dates. The application, recorded on the portal as SSD-109892240 for a stage of mixed-use towers at Leeds and Averill Street, Rhodes, carries a current status of “Prepare EIS,” meaning assessment has not yet reached public exhibition or determination. The portal classifies it as a Housing Delivery Authority HDA Housing proposal, within the City of Canada Bay local government area. The public record names no lodgement or exhibition date and does not identify an applicant. The Urban Developer reported in December 2025 that Billbergia was the developer behind the site, describing it as part of the company’s broader presence on the Rhodes peninsula; that report is now almost eleven months old and is used here only for background on the applicant, not to date this story.

The Urban Developer’s report also described a $3.2 billion masterplan on a 3.1-hectare site assembled from four lots fronting Cavell Avenue and Averill and Leeds streets, citing a total of 1,840 homes planned across the broader Rhodes site, and said an earlier stage at 25-27 Leeds Street had already been approved earlier in 2025. The outlet did not confirm a total tower count for the masterplan, and an eight-tower figure appears only in the outlet’s web address, not in its article text or the planning portal record. Those figures describe the wider, multi-stage masterplan the outlet wrote about, not the two-tower application The Australian Developer checked against the portal for this story.

The numbers

The planning portal’s own project description states the proposal covers two towers and approximately 352 apartments. No storey heights, floor space or construction cost are disclosed on the record, and the portal lists a contact planner for enquiries but no applicant of record.

What’s next

Because the application remains at the pre-exhibition Prepare EIS stage, it has not reached public exhibition or a determination, and the portal lists no timetable for either step. The Australian Developer will track SSD-109892240 through exhibition and determination, and will revisit the wider masterplan’s tower count once a record discloses it directly.