Retirement village for Bayview GC receives pushback
A proposal to convert 2Ha of land at Sydney’s Bayview Golf Club into a three and four-storey retirement complex has angered locals and led to calls for intervention from NSW State Ministers.
The golf club’s partner in the $84 million redevelopment project, Waterbrook, released plans in 2016 showing 95 self-care apartments on the site, situated in seven separate buildings. The land sale would yield the golf club approximately $10 million, and require several holes to be altered and/or moved.
According to the golf club website, $7.2 million was spent on a new clubhouse in 2007 and General Manager David Stone confirmed to the Sydney Morning Herald that it was now in a “fragile financial position” as a result.
The newspaper quotes Stone as saying, “The decision to divert the club’s resources to a new clubhouse, in combination with the financial losses the club incurs annually from lost playing days resulting from inclement weather and poor drainage and floor mitigation, has left it in a fragile financial position.”
Stone added that the purpose of the development was to, “provide the resources to do things that a not-for-profit northern beaches, locals golf club could not hope to afford“.
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