Extra hotel rooms at $400m EQ tower

DevelopmentWA has approved the amendments to Malaysian developer Victor Goh’s $400 million Elizabeth Quay development, including converting an apartment tower to hotel rooms.

The DevelopmentWA board granted approval to the proposed amendments to the 26 and 53 storeys development on lots two and three of Elizabeth Quay at its meeting last month.

Mr Goh, through his company CA & Associates, submitted an application to amend the already approved plans to increase the number of hotel rooms from the approved 190 to 360.

This includes converting all of the permanent residential dwellings in the 26-storey north tower to hotel rooms.

Another amendment includes reducing the number of residential apartments from 493 to 220 units.

The number of parking bays is also proposed to be reduced, from 465 to 387 bays, comprising of 300 residential and 87 shared car parking.

However, the DevelopmentWA approval included conditions and new advice notes.

Under the new application, a minimum of 11 per cent or 24 units will be sold to the Department of Communities for affordable housing.

The development was originally a collaboration between Mr Goh and Perth developer Adrian Fini but the pair had a fallout that escalated to court.

The Supreme Court of Western Australia ordered Mr Goh to pay ongoing fees to Mr Fini’s Fini Group over consultancy services on the development of the Elizabeth Quay lots in 2019.