FIVE years since it was first listed for sale, the owner of South Yarra’s reportedly largest – and arguably one of its most prominent - residential land holdings, is seeking a permit to build apartments.

If approved, a major complex rising five levels above a garage, and containing 12 apartments and 28 car spaces will replace the distinctive Saint Cloud estate, at a bluff at the top of  tree-lined Kensington Road, and sloping down to Alexandra Avenue and the Yarra River.

The 5600 square metre site currently includes a 929 square metre, semi-circle, white mansion, built about 20 years ago, and visible from the Monash Freeway near Gunn Island.

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