Changes are being put in place to allow for a future development which would see parts of the Mowbray Bowls Club to be converted into disability residential housing.
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A land rezone application has been submitted to the City of Launceston council which would see it changed from recreation to inner residential.
The aim of the proposed rezoning would see about 18 land lots for disability housing and associated services constructed on the site.
However, the application is just to rezone the land at this stage.
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Plans for housing and the other buildings on the site would subject to future approvals.
"The application is designed to meet the demand for modern and purpose-designed accommodation for people in the community living with severe disability who are currently living in inappropriate circumstances," the application said.
"The proposal ... requires sites of considerable sizes in a residential context. There is a current lack of appropriately sized lots in the area that could accommodate the suggested use."
The plans are intended to be part of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
North Launceston Bowls Club operates only one of two adjacent lawn bowls facilities, leaving a vacant site that can be utilised for residential development, the application said.
A number of different zones and land uses currently surround the site, including inner residential, and the Newnham University of Tasmania campus in a particular purpose zone.
The application has been made by Unify SDA Housing.
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