$250m golf resort to take shape
January 27th, 2007 - Category: Real Estate, ResortAustralian golf champion Greg Norman is the designer behind the project’s PGA-standard course – his first course in South Australia and his ninth in Australia.
The planned Yorke Peninsula development comprises an 18-hole golf course, a 120-room resort, 1650 residential allotments and commercial and recreational precincts.
Work is expected to begin in the second half of the year, creating up to 600 jobs during construction and ongoing employment opportunities for up to 300 through the resort, commercial precinct and course.
The Dunes is being developed by a consortium of international and local developers, which has developed three residential estates in the region.
The first stage of the project will incorporate 250 residential allotments, the golf course, clubhouse and five-star resort.
Norman’s Sydney-based design partner in South-East Asia, Bob Harrison, said “the Shark” had signed off on the course design.
He said it would enhance the local coastal environment by extending dunes and coastal vegetation inland to the course.
“It will be a links course similar in style to Moonah at the National on Mornington Peninsula and we are aiming for it to be in the top 20 golf courses in Australia, capable of attracting local, national and international golfers,” he said.
Project manager Phil Hudson said the course development would create an extra 30 to 40 ha of vegetated dune environment. Residential allotments would flank the course.
A public forum was held in Port Hughes on Wednesday. Copper Coast District Council chief executive Peter Dinning said while support had been “90 per cent, if not more”, most people had valid concerns on water, power and waste issues.
Council is currently preparing a draft Plan Amendment Report to submit to Planning SA and expect it to be complete in six weeks.
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