Pacific Golf Club teeing up 180 units
UP to 180 retirement units are proposed for Pacific Golf Club under plans to upgrade facilities and secure the venue’s future.
The Carindale club revealed details this week of early concepts put forward by Reside Communities after members approved the plan last month.
The $10 million redevelopment would deliver a new clubhouse and driving range and establish a putt-putt on the grounds.
While detailed designs have not yet been drawn up, the units are anticipated to be two or three storeys and up to five storeys on the sloped section of the site. Plans are set to be lodged with the council in March.
Club president Craig Austen said the development would take in the 3 per cent of the total green space already developed, redeveloping the clubhouse site on Pine Mountain Rd, including the carpark, the driving range and the buggy sheds.
Mr Austen said the proposal would stop the loss of land caused by asset sales over the past 20 years.
“We didn’t want to impact at all on our 18-hole golf course and we wanted to maintain our nine-hole par three,” he said.
“We will basically retain those. We are modifying our par three slightly. The ninth hole on our par three will become practice facilities and a putt-putt and we are redoing our driving range.”
A new clubhouse will be built on the current putting green, after which the existing clubhouse will be demolished.
“The proposed site is all developed at the moment and part of that also is to upgrade our practice facilities to state-of-the-art,” Mr Austen said.
“We will have virtual golf inside the clubhouse and new chipping areas and bunker practice areas.
“The cost of maintaining our course is well in excess of $1 million a year and on top of that we have to keep reinvesting into the asset. As with all golf worldwide, it is diminishing in terms of membership.”
A retirement village would give the club an ongoing income stream and allow it to upgrade playing and practice facilities to foster junior golf and develop putt-putt which was another profitable venture.
Community information sessions on the plans will be held at the club on November 6 and 9 from 6-8pm.
Source: The Courier Mail
