GemLife Retirement Resort and proposed new club house & facilities – Cooroy Golf Club

GemLife Retirement Resort and proposed new club house & facilities – Cooroy Golf Club

by | May 12, 2020 | Gemlife Cooroy

GemLife Retirement Resort

and proposed new Golf Club House & Facilities - Cooroy Golf Club

Welcome to the Innovative Planning Solutions information and engagement portal for the GemLife Retirement Resort / Cooroy Golf Club proposal.

InformationSubmission of Support
What is proposed?

  • A new GemLife Retirement Resort of 246 dwellings and associated lifestyle facilities
  • A new Club House, car park and golf buggy sheds for the Cooroy Golf Club

Have your say:

The Cooroy community, the Sunshine Coast golfing community and future retirement resort residents will play an important role in showing support for this proposal to Noosa Council.

A proforma submission has been prepared for your consideration. Simply complete the online letter of support and IPS will submit it to Noosa Council.

You can uncheck any boxes and include additional comments.

Submission of Support

Submissions must be lodged by Monday 1 June.

What are the benefits for Cooroy?

  • 246 new households that will support local businesses
  • Delivery of much needed additional retirement living
  • The option of in-home care services to ensure residents can ‘age in place’
  • Ensuring the continuing operation of an important community sports club (the Cooroy Golf Club)
  • Providing economic stimulus to Cooroy businesses during the construction phase
  • Creating new employment opportunities in the ongoing operation of the retirement resort (i.e. on site management, grounds keeping, cleaning, sales and administration staff)

 

What are the benefits for the Cooroy Golf Club?

  • 246 guaranteed new memberships for 10 years
  • Construction and fit out of a new golf course clubhouse equipped to cater for functions
  • Construction of new access, car park and golf buggy storage sheds
  • Amendment of golf course layout and delivery of associated amenities upgrades

 

Is the development on the Golf Course land?

  • The GemLife retirement resort has an overall land area of 11.08 hectares.
  • 9.25 hectares of the GemLife development is proposed on vacant land and 1.83 hectares of the GemLife development is on Golf Course land.
  • GemLife commissioned a golf course designer to re-design the golf course to ensure an 18 hole golf course is maintained. In conjunction with constructing the retirement resort, GemLife will undertake the construction works to replace and upgrade golf holes as well as providing improved amenities.

 

Who are GemLife?

GemLife are experienced developers and operators of over 50’s resorts throughout Queensland and interstate. Each GemLife resort is designed with a focus on promoting active and social living for its residents. Locally, GemLife have retirement resorts at Pacific Paradise and Maroochydore.

 

What about traffic?

Detailed traffic reporting has been prepared for the development and has been approved by the Department of Transport and Main Roads. Dedicated turning lanes into the GemLife / Golf Club House are proposed on each approach to the site entry to ensure there will be no impact on traffic in the surrounding area.

 

Submission of Support
What about the environment?

The development is proposed on predominantly cleared land. Some clearing will be required to facilitate the development, however detailed environmental reporting has concluded that the vegetation existing on the land is highly disturbed and has low environmental value. Fauna surveys were undertaken and confirmed no evidence of koalas (scats, scratches or physical sightings) on the site.

 

What will the development look like from the road?

A 10m wide landscape buffer is proposed along Myall Street in front of the proposed development. Once this vegetation grows to maturity, it will largely obscure the development from view. 3D perspectives have been prepared to show the visual presentation to Myall Street.

 

Where can I get more information?

Please feel free to contact James at Innovative Planning Solutions:

Phone – 07 5452 5207

Email – info@ipsptyltd.com.au

For updates please visit:

https://www.facebook.com/innovativeplanningsolutions/

Sincerely – James Brownsworth, Director, Innovative Planning Solutions

 

Submission of Support - GemLife Cooroy

In respect of: Proposed GemLife Retirement Resort, new Golf Clubhouse for Cooroy Golf Club and associated golf course adjustments and improvements.

Peter Crosby Common

Peter Crosby Common

by | Aug 31, 2018 | Peter Crosby Common

Below are details regarding an exciting new Community Facilities Precinct proposed for Sippy Downs – The Peter Crosby Common, located on Peter Crosby Way (intersection Red Cedar St), Sippy Downs.

The Sippy Downs community will play a valuable role in the final decision of Council.

Cr Christian Dickson would like to ascertain the level of support by local residents for this proposal. The best way to do this is for residents to sign a letter of support which can be presented to Councillors.

A proforma letter has been prepared for your consideration. Simply complete the online letter below.

Thank you for your interest in these much need community facilities.

For updates please visit https://www.facebook.com/innovativeplanningsolutions/

Inquiries – Sheree Lyons, email: sheree@ipsptyltd.com.au Ph: 0417648625 

Proposed Community Facilities Precinct

History and Background

On behalf of the landowner, Innovative Planning Solutions has engaged with the Sippy Downs community over a 10-year period. As part of this engagement, we have become acutely aware of the community’s ongoing need and desire for community and sporting facilities.  As a result, there is a commitment to uphold a community precinct vision for this land, held by the late Peter Crosby whose family owned and farmed the land for over 50 years.

The subject land is currently undergoing assessment via the Palmview Urban Investigation Area process with Council’s final determination expected early 2019. Due to the geographical location, postcode (4556) and council division (Division 6), the landowner has always considered this parcel of land to be part of Sippy Downs, not Palmview.

What will the community precinct include?

The proposal includes a full-size sports playing field, a flat building pad intended to accommodate a sports club, canteen, amenities and meeting room for community use plus car parking, an off-leash dog park and community garden. A substantial proportion of land (minimum 50% of the site) is proposed to remain as environmental open space.

How will this be paid for?

A portion of the land is proposed to be developed for uses that may include a retirement village/aged care facility or a private school. No standard residential development (i.e. detached houses or units) is proposed. The funds generated from development of this part of the land will enable the dedication and funding of the Community Facilities Precinct.

Community benefits:

Provision of these facilities would meet the community’s vision for the area and address the historical shortfall of community facilities in Chancellor Park Estate.

In addition to the dedication of usable land, a minimum of 2.5 million dollars has been allocated by the land owner to construct the community facilities. This financial contribution is open to community consultation on how to best allocate these funds to specifically benefit the Sippy Downs community. It is important that this opportunity to directly provide for residents is not lost. Delivery of this community precinct would be unlikely to occur elsewhere in Sippy Downs due to the lack of available and suitably sized land.

Sincerely – James Brownsworth, Director, Innovative Planning Solutions

LETTER OF SUPPORT TO SUNSHINE COAST COUNCIL