A development application for a controversial public housing site in Braddon has been approved more than three years after it was lodged.
The block at will include two supportive housing units, each with one bedroom. Eight standard, two-bedroom units will also be constructed.
Set over two floors, the ground and upper level will have the same layout.
Four units with open plan living, dining and small balconies will be on each level.
On the western side will be the adaptable units. Each have a lift shaft directly outside the door, instead of a second bedroom.
A development application was first lodged for 10 supportive units in early 2021 but was amended later that year.
It took until early 2024 for a decision on that amendment to be made.
Changes to the basement size and minor revisions to the driveway were then submitted in July, prior to the application being approved in August.
Housing Minister Yvette Berry said the decisions were delayed as the development application had to go before the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Work is expected to start in the coming months.
Building company ABA Construction were contracted in early 2024 to rebuild the complex, which was the site of a long-running legal battle entered into by the government.
Tenants were relocated from the existing public housing block at the site - which will be demolished - in 2016.
The ACT government identified what it said were fire safety and construction issues which made it uninhabitable. It has sat vacant since.
But the building had only been constructed four years earlier by building company Bellerive Homes, who were contracted by the ACT government.
There was a legal battle between the ACT government and the builder as they were at odds with how the building's fire rating should be certified.
Reports completed for the ACT government in 2016 and 2017 found several issues with the building.
However Bellerive Homes went into liquidation before legal proceedings were completed.
The ACT government received payouts totalling $570,000 by the engineer and certifier but was paid nothing by the builder.
The resurrection of the site for public housing has been welcomed by Ms Berry, whose party has committed to developing 1000 extra public housing and community properties by 2030 if re-elected.
The Labor promise follows declines in the number of public housing properties over recent years and a delay in delivering an extra 400 public housing properties.
An Auditor-General report, released in May, noted public housing properties were likely to decrease from 28 homes for every 1000 residents in 2018 to 24 homes for every 1000 people in 2027.
This was because of population growth.
