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256 Hays Blvd

256 Hays Blvd is a residential development in Uptown Core, Ward 5: 585 homes proposed. It is before the Ontario Land Tribunal.

256 Hays Blvd · Developer: SmartCentres REIT · Town file: 256 Hays Boulevard · Builder’s site

Planning
Under appeal
Town record, September 29, 2026
Sales
Not verified
No first-party sales source verified
Construction
Not verified
Not inferred from planning approval
Last checked September 29, 2026Town of Oakville; developer and other first-party sourcesHow we know
Publisher
Town of Oakville; developer and other first-party sources
Source dataset
Planning applications (open data layer)
Retrieved
September 29, 2026
Licence
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence — Town of Oakville. Terms
From the source
Town status, homes and dates · statutory notices · developer facts, each with its own date
Derived by OakvilleIQ
grouping of files into one development · the planning status · neighbourhood · the timeline
OakvilleIQ’s words
the summary sentence
Kept current
Planning facts refresh with the Town's layer; developer facts are dated and flagged after 90 days.
Key facts
Address
256 Hays Blvd
Developer
SmartCentres REIT
Area
Uptown Core · Ward 5
Homes proposed
585
Homes approved
—
Housing mix
Not broken down by type in the Town record
Height (Town)
27 and 30 storeys
Planning files
2
First filed
April 29, 2021

What is proposed

Proposed 2 residential towers at 29 and 287 storeys. The proposal includes 585 residential units, 589.9 m2 of at grade commercial space and 4 levels of above-ground parking consisting of 493 spaces in total.

The Town’s description, as recorded in its planning system.

Site plan application (1413.053/01) for a mixed-use building with two residential towers of 27 and 30 storeys at 256, 260 and 294 Hays Blvd and 271 Oak Park Blvd. (OakvilleIQ’s summary of the Town’s project page)

The Town does not break the homes down by type.

Planning versus marketing

What the Town has proposed or approved, and what a builder is selling, side by side. They are different records and are never merged.

What the Town has on record
  • 585 homes proposed
  • 27 and 30 storeys (Town page)
  • 2 buildings (Town page)
  • Planning: under appeal

Town planning record, checked September 29, 2026.

What a developer is marketing
  • First phase

The builder's own material and the HCRA directory, as of September 29, 2026. Marketing is not an approval.

Homes by type

Homes proposed and approved by type, from the Town’s record
TypeProposedApproved
Total585—

The largest figures any of the development’s files carry, not a sum: the files describe the same homes. A dash means the Town recorded none.

Planning status

Under appeal. The Town’s own statuses: Appealed.

  1. Zoning by-law amendment1413.34

    Town status
    Appealed · under appeal
    Received
    April 29, 2021
    Deemed complete
    April 30, 2021
    Homes proposed
    585

  2. Official plan amendment1413.34

    Town status
    Appealed · under appeal
    Received
    April 29, 2021
    Deemed complete
    April 30, 2021
    Homes proposed
    585

Timeline

Every dated step on record, oldest first: the Town’s milestones, its notices, changes OakvilleIQ observed between checks, and dated developer announcements. Nothing is inferred between them.

  1. April 29, 2021

    Zoning by-law amendment application received · 1413.34

    Town of Oakville planning record

  2. April 30, 2021

    Zoning by-law amendment deemed complete · 1413.34

    Town of Oakville planning record

Location

Where 256 Hays Blvd is256 Hays Blvd marked on the Town's Official Plan communities, with 3 other developments nearby in the same neighbourhood.Uptown Core2264 Trafalgar Rd: Proposed or under review, 2,662 homes256 Hays Blvd: Proposed or under review, 585 homes90 Oak Park Blvd: Proposed or under review, 229 homesThe Ashton: Under construction, 142 homes
Proposed or under reviewUnder constructionOutlines are the Town’s Official Plan communities.

Nearest GO station: Oakville GO, 4.1 km as the crow flies.

Sources

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence — Town of Oakville. Licence. OakvilleIQ is independent and is not endorsed by the Town of Oakville or any builder. Figures are the sources’ at the dates shown; a later submission can change them.

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