Green shoots for developer
A TASMANIAN developer has unveiled plans to buy a disused bowling green and rezone it to general residential.
Developer and hotelier Carlton Dixon, who is also Butler McIntyre Investments Ltd investments and lending manager, lodged the application over Cressy Bowls and Community Club’s second green with Northern Midlands Council in September.
According to documents lodged with council, the club resolved at this year’s AGM to sell the green for reasons including “declining” membership at the club, it now being more of a social venue; the second green not being used compose
petitively for five years; and, the $25,000 annual upkeep of the green being “far beyond” the club’s financial capacity.
Money from the sale would be used to upgrade the clubrooms, a letter from club president Diane Byard said.
The second green is 2013sq m split over two titles, the documents show.
“The subject site [land to be rezoned] is suited to the purEMERGENCY of the general residential zone and it adjoins the GRZ to the east and south,” a report by Woolcott Surveys submitted in support of the proposal stated.
“The subject site enjoys a high standard of amenity and can be fully serviced for sewer, stormwater and water.”
Woolcott Surveys said the proposal was a win-win for the club and its client, Mr Dixon, and would “have a positive economic and social effect to the township”.
The proposal was voted through unanimously by council and is open for public exhibition until mid-January. The matter will now progress to the Tasmanian Planning Commission.