About 1500 apartments in blocks up to 39 storeys would be built around a new town square on Sydney’s northern beaches, under a proposed revamp of the Warringah Mall shopping centre site.

Retail giant Scentre Group, which owns and manages the Westfield complex, submitted a 20-year plan to develop eight mixed-use buildings alongside the 1960s shopping centre in Brookvale.

Northern Beaches Council in 2023 adopted plans to guide the development of a future Brookvale town centre, enabling at least 1350 units near the B-line bus stop on Pittwater Road.

The council, in a letter to the state’s planning authorities earlier this year, noted Brookvale was the “highest-priority strategic centre in the northern beaches for housing and employment growth”.

It said the amount of growth must be finely

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