Noosa Springs Hotel Plan Ahead of Council Decision
Developer GH Properties has launched an 11th-hour bid to resuscitate its plans for the first five-star hotel in Noosa, which the Noosa Shire Council was due to formally refuse at a council meeting this week.
The council had signalled this week that it would controversially knock back plans to develop a four-storey $50-million 106-room hotel on the site of Noosa Springs golf course.
The council was due to formalise the rejection in a full council meeting on July 20, however developer GH Properties, a Golden Horse subsidiary, requested a stop of the current period, putting a handbrake on the process.
Council officers had recommended the project, which would be the first five-star hotel in more than 30 years in the region, be approved—but elected councilors had announced their intention to reject the proposal.
More than 400 submissions were filed against the planned 106-key hotel. In documents tabled at the council meeting and in an opinion piece in local media, Cr Brian Stockwell said that “part of the land in question at Noosa Springs was mapped in the biodiversity overlay with a clear intention to protect the vegetation”.
