A developer has spec’d up—and ditched 248 apartments from—a six-storey residential project primed to rise by the banks of Canberra’s Lake Ginninderra.

Manuka-based SAP Canberra, directed by Shane Anderson, has submitted revised plans for a 252-apartment project, down from 500 homes initially proposed in 2023.

Dubbed The Lawson after the suburb it is planned for (which in turn is named after 1890s bush poet Henry Lawson), the project over the past three years has transformed from a build-to-rent scheme to a luxury apartment development.